Sunday, January 4, 2015

Week of January 5, 2015

Welcome back from our extended break.  We have almost two weeks until mid-term exams.  This week we will wrap up the Low Middle Ages and the Crusades.  Next week we will review for midterms.

Cultural Diffusion occurs typical three ways.: trade, migration and war.  All three of these events happened with the Crusades, and the exposure to the more highly advanced Muslim culture helped to break Europe out of its "dark ages".

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  OR questions 3,4,5 on page 230 in complete sentences.

Due Wednesday
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.
Due Thursday 
8(4) Learning and Culture Flourish p. 262-267 
Identify the terms, people, and places. What is pictured on page 262?  
Answer the biography question about Christine de Pisan on page 263. 
Identify the four types of Medieval inventions shown on page 264.  
What does the Bayeaux Tapestry (picture 266-267) show? 
Answer the three checkpoint questions OR questions #3-5 on page 267
Due Friday
10(1) The Rise of Islam (p.304-309)
Identify the terms, people, and places. 

Read the Infographic on page 307 and answer questions #1+2.
Also, answer questions the checkpoint questions OR questions #3-6 on page 308 in complete sentences.


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