Sunday, November 24, 2013

Week of November 25, 2013

Happy Thanksgiving on Thursday.
We have a short week, so it is a good time to catch up before Thanksgiving vacation.
We will look at how the Vikings ended the Carolingian Renaissance and how chaos returned to Western Europe from 800-1000 AD.
There was one area that did not experience chaos and disorder; that was in the Muslim world.

Due Tuesday:
10(3) Muslim Civilizations Golden Age 317-323
Identify the terms, people, and places.

Answer Thinking Critically questions #1+2 on page 321.
Answer Thinking Critically questions #1+2 on page 323.
Explain how Arabic numerals (picture 322) in Eastern Muslim Regions differed from Modern Western Arabic numerals. Who most likely brought Arabic numerals to Europe?
Answer questions #3-5 on page 322 OR the checkpoint questions in complete sentences.


Due next Tuesday
8(3) The Crusades and the wider world (255-260)
Identify the terms, people, and places
Read witness history (255)What did the Franks do to the Saracens when they captured Jerusalem?
Look at the map on page 257, answer questions #2+3.
Look at the picture on 258, why did the Moslem leader Saladin open Jerusalem to the Christians?
Look at the infographic on page 259, what three religions hold Jerusalem sacred?
Answer the four Checkpoint questions or questions #3-6 in complete sentences.




No comments:

Post a Comment