June 22--Girls--Bring your shoes for graduation lineup.
Home Access codes for ProQuest(History Study Center)via WRHS Media Center
USER NAME: 78-27309 PASSWORD: bigchalk (it's case-sensitive)
WELCOME 8-GOLD AND 8-BLUE STUDENTS TO THE WORLD HISTORY WEBSITE.
USE THIS SITE TO:
READ YOUR HW ASSIGNMENTS
FIND AND DOWNLOAD DOCUMENTS FOR HW AND CLASSWORK
KEEP UP ON WORK WHEN YOU ARE ABSENT FROM SCHOOL
ANSWER GENERAL QUESTIONS
CURRENT UNIT: Africa
PAST UNITS
--China & the Silk Road
--Korea & Japan
--Aztec, Maya, Inca
-- The Renaissance-- "rebirth of civilization" in Europe"
The Reformation -- Protestants split off from the Roman
Catholic Church
-- The Middle Ages in Europe "Medieval Europe"
Medi = Middle
Eval = Era
‘FEUDALISM’ is the political and social system of the time.
POLITICAL SYSTEM is based on relationship between lords and their vassals.
SOCIAL SYSTEM is based on strict hierarchy of classes: nobles and clergy
over
peasants
DOMINANT VALUES OF FEUDALISM: Loyalty, Power, Protection, Territory
NEWSPAPER PROJECT: Overview
Research + Works Cited due dates:
Fri Oct 3 'Obituary' + W.C.
Fri Oct 24 'News/History' + W.C.
Fri Nov 7 'Climate' + 2nd rough draft W.C.
Fri Nov 21 'National Entertainment' + final W.C.
Over the next two months, the 8th grade language arts and world
history classes will work together on a research-based newspaper
assignment.
The world history goal is for you to build upon your research skills
utilizing electronic research databases. You will also gain a greater
understanding of China, Japan, India, and Africa. The language arts goal is
to hone your writing and editing skills and to create a newspaper.
ISLAMIC EMPIRE
TEST TIPS: The Chapter 22 Notes Key is posted under Worksheets--use it.
Look for other KEYS as well, use them and you own worksheets to complete
your Study Guide.
Study Guide due Tues Oct 14 = ticket to Jeopardy
Test is on Weds Oct 15
We've just looked at the world's first Christian empire (the Byzantines).
Now we consider the world's first Islamic empire (the Arabs).
~630 AD, the third religion of Abraham -- Islam -- rose among the
Bedouin
peoples of Arabia. Prophet Muhammad admired the industry and morality of the
Jewish and Christian residents of Makkah, and adopted much from their
religious ideals when he established Islam.
Islam means "surrender to God"
Muslim means "one who has surrendered"
~800 AD, Arab Muslims had established one of the world's largest empires.
~900 AD, Arab Muslims established Europe's most successful multi-cultural
society in Spain, where Jews, Christians and Muslims worked productively and
lived peacefully together until the Crusades.
The Arabs were the conduit for the knowledge and wisdom of India to come to
the West. Arab scholars also treasured and preserved the knowledge and
wisdom
of the ancient Greeks, keeping it safe until the West had scholars educated
well enough to receive it.
