Map Test- Latin America Friday, April 23

Identify the following:

1. Mexico
2. Mexico City
3. Shade the following regions: Toltecs, Olmecs, Maya, Aztec and Inca
4. Chichen Itza
5. Yucatan Peninsula
6. Lake Texcoco
7. Gulf of Mexico
8. Pacific Ocean
9. Tenochtitlan
10. Andes
11. Machu Picchu
12. Quito
13. Santiago
14. Amazon River
15. Lake Titicaca
16. Cuzco
17. Maranon River
18. Sierra Madres Mountains
19. Rio Grande River
20. Caribbean Sea
21. Atacama Desert
22. Pampas
23. Patagonia
24. Tierra del Fuego
25. Amazon Basin
26. Brazilian Highlands
27. Cuba
28. Hispaniola
29. Equator
30. Baja California

Mideval Life

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/medieval_peasants.htm

http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/middleages/pdailylife.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/10949/fief/medpeasant.html

Create an informational poster explaining the life of a mideval peasant.

You must include:

• Picture/drawing of a peasant- what would they look like?
• Fact based information- minimum of 10 facts that include all aspects of their daily lives
• Minimum of three graphics

Map Test 3/10

There will be a test Thursday on the map of Africa.

Please Identify:

1. Atlantic Ocean
2. Indian Ocean
3. Mediterranean Sea
4. Red Sea
5. Sahara Desert
6. Nile River
7. Lake Victoria
8. Kalahari Desert
9. Congo River
10. Atlas Mountains
11. Madagascar
12. Niger River
13. Ghana
14. Mali
15. Songhay
16. Axum
17. Great Zimbabwe
    
18. Sudan
19. Timbuktu
20. Senegal River
21. Kilwa
22. Cairo
23. Tunis
24. Tripoli
25. Zambezi River
26. Great Rift Valley
27. Mozambique Channel
28. Mt. Kilamanjaro
29. Namib Mountains
30. Gulf of Aden
31. Gulf of Guinea
32. Lake Chad

Over the Break

Please be sure to complete the following:

PERSIA chart Abbasid and Umayyad

and the following project:

Black History Month- Create a children's book explaining the story of either Mansa Musa or Sundiata.

Please follow these guidelines-

1. Use historically accurate information

2. Picture on each page- drawn or printed

3. Proper grammar and spelling

4. Must be a minimum of 10 pages - there should be no more than one paragraph per page

5. Must include an explanation of the time period, geographic placement and later importance

6. Cover and back page

7. Make sure the book is bound.... so the pages do not come loose

See you after the break!! This is due the day we return.

Monday and Tuesday

I will be attending a school meeting on Monday and Tuesday--- Please make sure you complete the work I left with the substitute. I am grading it- AND- do not just copy from the text.

Pyramid Foldable

On each side of the pyramid you must explain how each religion changed and the changes each religion caused in the regions it encountered. Be specific- bullets are ok as long as the information presented is correct!!!!!!!

Notes Chapter 5

III. Decline in China and India
A. 200-600 CE all three start to decline
1. Outside invasion – nomadic growth – Huns
a. Huns realized weakness of regime
2. Internal problems
B. Han Dynasty – population growth/prosperity spiral down
1. Confucian intellectual activity less active
2. Bureaucrats corrupt
3. Local landlords took up power
4. New peasant taxes – social unrest
a. Peasants become day laborers/sell children
5. Daoism attractive – healing practices + magic
a. Yellow Turbans – golden age w/ magic
1. Attacked weak emperor/corrupt bureaucracy
6. Similarities to Rome
a. Political ineffectiveness
b. Epidemics – killed half of China
c. Three centuries of chaos
7. Cultural unity threatened by Buddhism
8. Eventually invaders kicked out by Sui and Tang – started one of most glorious periods
9. Why survived?
a. Structures too strong – bureaucracy
1. Invaders couldn’t offer anything better
C. India decline – not as drastic
1. Gupta emperors losing control of local princes
2. Hun invaders penetrate deeper into India
3. Regional princes, Rajput, gain more power
4. But…Indian culture evolved – Hinduism wins out over Buddhism
a. Huns have no patience for Buddhist principles of calm/contemplation
b. Mother Goddess Devi spread
5. Threat from Islam, Arabs fighting for Allah
a. Hinduism supported more by government
b. Not as much focus on intellectual pursuits, focus put on uniting Hinduism
c. Arab traders took control of trade
6. Regionalism prevailed, but Hinduism saved the day

IV. Decline and Fall of Rome – most severe
A. Symptoms of decay
1. Declining population
2. Brutal/arbitrary emperors
3. tax collection difficult – blood from turnip
4. humans saw futility of life
B. Causes
1. weak emperors, succession, army helps selects emperors
2. plagues from international trade
3. population decrease > can’t recruit troops > have to hire Germanic soldiers
4. Upper class more pleasure seeking – loss of morals
a. Stopped having kids
5. Aside from writing textbooks, no new artistic creativity
a. Textbooks summarized info already known, plus threw in superstition
C. Course of decline
1. quality of imperial rule declined
2. life became more dangerous
3. economic survival more difficult> farmers work for landlords > feudalism/manorialism
4. estates became self-sufficient – trade declined
5. Some emperors try to stop
a. Diocletian reforms – improve administration, tax coll, economic regulation, worship emperor as god > Persecute Christians
b. Constantine – Constantinople – use Christianity to unify – eastern emp. Effective
6. Western proven as even weaker – when barbarians come – no one cares
a. 5% of empire able to take over
7. Why it didn’t survive?
a. No shared political/bureaucratic traditions
b. No common religion
8. Created three regions
a. Eastern – Byzantine Empire – Greek – Justinian codes – famous Roman laws
b. Sassanid Empire – Persian – bridge to the east – continued under Persian rule
b. North Africa – Augustine – Christian theologizns
a. Coptic Church in Egypt – soon Islam would take over
c. Western empire – shattered
1. Regional unities
2. Reduced level of civilization – crude, cities shrank, Dark Ages
a. Literacy falls – sense of inferiority to classical Rome – forgotten

V. The New Religious Map
A. End of classical period led to rise of major religions – unprecedented growth
1. Devastating plagues – provided solace for death
2. Growing political instability – Christianity > Mediterranean, Buddhism > Asia
a. Islam arose in 600 CE and became most dominant force
3. Common focus
a. Spiritual concerns beyond daily life
b. Hope of better existence after death
4. Hundreds of thousands underwent conversion process
a. Syncretism – religions changed to incorporate features of civilization
5. Yet, remained different
B. Buddhism
1. Buddhism altered more than Hinduism as it expanded across Asia
a. Monks pushed conversion
b. Two groups – minority who abandoned earthly life & others doing best they could
2. bodhisattvas – attain nirvana through meditation
a. Could lead in prayer and advise on spiritual matters
3. Changed from religion based on ethics to emotional cult offering salvation
4. In China, issue of celestial afterlife
a. Mahayana – Greater Vehicle – east Asian form
1. Buddha as divine savior – statues, against earlier belief against images
2. Boddhisattvas – souls could receive prayers and aid people after death
b. Southeast Asia – closer to original – meditation and ethics
5. Pushed forward new artistic interests – pagodas in Japan
6. Impact on women
a. women and men both had souls
b. syncretism – Buddhist – husband “supports” wife > “controls”
c. valued pious Buddhist wives – could help family reach salvation
1. keep wives busy, calm, out of mischief
7. Conflict
a. Focus on afterlife takes away focus on political interests
b. holy life incompatible w/ family needs
c. threat to distract loyalty to emperor
d. Daoism reaction – practical benefits through magic
8. Never dominated culture, coexisted
a. response to changing conditions of troubled area

VI. Christianity
A. Similarities to Buddhism
1. Spreading at same time – Buddhism east, Christianity west
2. Christianity initially less successful
3. Emphasis on salvation
4. Guidance of saints
B. Differences
1. Placed more emphasis on organization, structure < borrowed from Roman Empire
2. Premium on conversion
3. Exclusive nature of truth, intolerant of competing beliefs < reason for success
C. Beginnings
1. Reaction to rigidities of Jewish priesthood
2. Cult/reaction movements started – promised afterlife for virtuous
a. Jesus of Nazareth – gentleness + charisma
b. initially no desire to spread
c. message
1. one God, virtuous life dedicated to God, fellowship among believers, life of poverty better for holiness
2. Sacrifice for sins
3. Afterlife > belief, good works, discipline, perform rituals
d. why did it spread?
1. Solace in negative world
2. Missionaries travel easily around Roman Empire
3. early leaders made adjustments to match needs
a. Bishop system matched provincial governments
4. attractive to rich/poor – promise of salvation – like Hinduism
5. women – souls equal, men and women worship together
3. Gradual growth
a. Competed w/ eastern cults, persecuted
b. Constantine converted only 10%
1. Theocracy in East – emperor strong
2. Provincial leaders more power in West – papa – Pope in Rome
4. Beliefs
a. Trinity – Father, Son, Holy Spirit
b. formal theology – writers – Augustine – mixed w/ classical philosophy
c. Notion of free will
d. state not first
e. worked against slavery – brotherhood more important – across class lines
f. respect for disciplined work
g. Church building maintained Roman architecture
5. Syncretism – polytheistic traditions
a. Moved birth to winter solstice – December 22ish
6. Monasticism – Benedict
a. Benedictine Rule – disciplined life, prayer, study, piety
b. Monasteries centers of learning – preserved classics

VII. The World around 500 CE
A. World religion – durability, different kinds of people
1. cuts across cultures, wins converts, wide geographic area, diversity
2. animism decreases
B. Islam – initially surpasses Christianity, rival ever since
1. No new religion after Islam
2. Religious map doesn’t alter much after Islam
C. Changes to world
1. Showed importance of trade routes
2. Tendency toward single divinity – away from polytheism – but still existed
D. Set up themes for future
1. Response to collapse of former civilizations
2. Need to react to new religious map
3. Agricultural skill, and new contacts meant other civilizations would be catching up
E. Global connections
1. dangerous land travel
2. new premium on shipping
3. borders became more porous – new exchanges – new connections for future

Chapter 5 Blog Response

Answer the following question completely. Use facts from your book to fortify your ideas.

Which 2 classical civilizations had the most similarities in their declines?