"Playbook" for Friday's Assessment (1/17)

Here are some items that you should definitely know for tomorrow's assessment:

Be able to identify and know the importance of:
-Salah Al-Din
-King Richard The Lion Heart of England
-King Philip of France
-Emperor Frederick Barbarossa of the Holy Roman Empire

-Be able to define:
-barter economy
-market economy
-usury
-apprentice
-journeyman

Understand:
-Who called the Crusades?  Why were they called?
-What were the results of the Crusades?
-What was the Black Death?
-What were the results of the Black Death?

"Playbook" for Friday's Assessment (1/10)

Here are a few things to make sure you know/understand for tomorrow's assessment:

Know who the following people are, why they're important and their major accomplishments:
-Charlemagne
-William the Conqueror
-Pope Innocent III
-Otto I
-Gregory VII
-Henry III
-Vikings

Understand:
-medieval
-serfs
-chivalry
-tithe

Also:
-Why were the Vikings so greatly feared?
-What caused the decline of Charlemagne's empire?
-What were the characteristics of the code of chivalry?
-What was life like for the serfs and for the nobility on the manor?

"Playbook" for Friday's assessment on 12/6

Here's what you should definitely know for tomorrow's assessment:

-The 5 pillars of Islam
-The founder of Islam; and where he was from; his life and religious experience
-The two main sects (divisions) of Islam, and why they developed.
-Be able to name the Muslim place of worship
-Understand the spread of Islam
-Know the name of the Muslim holy book

-Be able to define:
    -jihad
    -imams
    -caliphates
    -bedouin

Islamic Empire Assignment (#26)

Here is the crossword assignment (#26) that we began in class on Tuesday 12/3.  Here is the back to the assignment.

Byzantine Empire Assignment (#23)

Here is the Byzantine Empire Assignment (#23) and here is the back.

"Playbook" for Tuesday's Assessment (11/26)

Here are some items/concepts that you should understand for tomorrow's assessment:
-Who split the Roman Empire into 2 parts?  Why?
-What was the name of the capital city of the Eastern part of the empire?
-What were the positives of having the capital city where it was located?
-In what ways did this new empire attempt to stay "Roman"?
-Know the surrounding geography of the Byzantine Empire.
-Understand the affect that the Mongols had in Eastern Europe and Kievan Russia.
-Know the significance of Ivan the Terrible
-Know the geography of the area surrounding Moscow
-Know which city the Orthodox Church considered the "third Rome" and why.