Study Questions due on Thursday

Chapter 12 Lesson 1 Study Questions

1) What city became known as "the harbor of the world"? Why?
2) How did the people of Baghdad reach the people of Guangzhou for trading?
3) What products did the ships have on board when they arrived in China?
4) What goods did the Arab merchants export from China?
5) How long did a round trip take?
6) Define diplomat.
7) How did Muslim ways and religion spread to countries bordering the Indian Ocean?
8) Who were the Swahili?
9) How did Islam differ from the religions of many peoples in the Indian Ocean region?
10) Where was the richest Swahili city-state?
11) How did the Swahili city-states develop?
12) Describe Great Zimbabwe.
13) What part did the people of the Shona Empire play in trade across the Indian Ocean?


Chapter 12 Lesson 2 Study Questions

1. How did trade make the Byzantine Empire wealthy?
2. Why was gaining control of Mediterranean islands important to the Muslims of North Africa?
3. How would you describe the location of the Byzantine Empire in 1350?
4. What actions of the Venetians showed that they considered themselves independent of the Byzantine Empire?
5. Why do you think Venetian merchants traveled in so many different directions?
6. What ended the Italian city-states' monopoly on Mediterranean trade?
7. Look at the graph on page 399 about what percent of citizens were sailors or shipbuilders?

Daily Geography Test is on Friday!!!
Study now, Review Thursday!!!

Indian Ocean Trade Game was today's lesson
Remeber to bring the game sheets back to class on Thursday

Homework due on Wednesday
Read Chapter 12 Lesson 2 Pages 396 - 399
Define Vocabulary Page 396
Lesson Review Questions 1 - 4 Page 399
DON'T FORGET YOUR CALCULATORS

Don't forget about your daily geography test on Friday, study now, review on Thrusday

World History
Chapter 12

Sea and River Trade

Lesson 1
* Read Lesson 1
* Define vocabulary
* Monsoon
* Lateen sail
* Dhow
* Junk
* Diplomat
* Swahili


* Monsoon - strong winds that blow across the Indian Ocean
* Lateen sail - triangle-shaped sail lets a ship travel into the wind
* Dhows - Arab ships used lateen sails to travel east toward China when the northeast monsoon blew
Junks - wooden boats with four-sided-sails ( Chinese )

From Baghdad to Guangzhou
* Baghdad became "the harbor of the world"
* Ships sailed down the Tigris to Basra to load their ships with goods
* Ships sailed from Basra to the ports of East Africa, India, and China

Monsoons
* Merchants set out for the East late in the year
* Strong winds blew across the Indian Ocean
* The winter monsoon blows from the northeast between November and March
* The summer monsoon blows from the southwest between April and October

* The Swahili City-States
* Arab traders wanted gold, ivory, animal skins and sometimes slaves
* Arab traders started communities in the trading ports of East Africa
* Arab traders married East African women and started the Swahili culture
* Most Swahili became Muslim


How did the Swahili city-states develop?
* Through Arabian interaction and trade
What part did the people of the Shona Empire play in trade across the Indian Ocean?
* The Shonas controlled the Central African gold mines

Classroom notes for World History
Homework: Make sure you have completed Chapter 11 Section 1 Review Questions Page 371

Today's Geography question was:
2. By 12,000 years ago early people were living on every continent but one. Which one was that?

Read through your notes each night to help you study.

Chapter 11
Lesson 1
Notes

Africa

* The second largest continent in the world
* Five regions of Africa
* North Africa
* West Africa
* Central Africa
* East Africa
* Southern Africa

Great Rift Valley

* 3,500 miles long
* North and South through east Africa
* One of the world's longest and deepest valley systems


* Deserts cover large parts of Africa
* Sahara - world's largest desert
* 3.5 million square miles of North Africa

West Africa
* Most of west Africa is savanna
* Tropical rain forest - tropical region on the southern coast and central Africa

Why was survival for early people of the savanna easy?
* full of wild animals for hunting
* fertile soil for growing crops
Nok people
* 1) began to shape iron by heating in 300 B.C.
* 2) lived 900 B.C. to A.D. 200
* 3) lived in northern Nigeria
Iron changed the lives of the Nok people by:
* stronger weapons for hunting and fighting
* easier to clear land
* easier to grow crops
* made the Nok more powerful
Soninkes
* had taken over much of the West African grassland
* lived along the Niger River
* land was very fertile
* used their location by using water from the Niger River to irrigate their land
Soninkes were good traders
* location was ideal for a center of trade
* region lay between the forestlands south of Niger and ghe desert lands of the Sahara in North Africa
* North African merchants crossed the Sahara to trade with Soninkes
* Main trade good was gold

Soninke Trade Cycle
* Soninkes traded salt to Wangaras for gold
* Then Soninkes traded the gold to North African merchants for salt
Soninkes also traded for good such as:
* paper
* woven cloth
* Perfume
* This wealth led to the development of the first great empire in West Africa
Ghana

* West African empire
* Located between Senegal and upper Niger rivers
* Began its rise to power 700 B.C.
* Year 1000 B.C. covered 100,000 square miles
* Ghanaian army kept trade routes open across the savanna
* Charged tariff's on all goods passing through savanna
* Tariff money used for government and to feed army
* Ghana was called "master of the gold"
* War between Ghana and Berber that led to the end of Ghana empire
How did the contact with Muslim North Africans through trade change the lives of people of West Africa?

* Muslim traders showed West Africans how to use money
* Brought the Arabic language
* West Africans accepted the religion of Islam
* Kings became Muslims
Mali

* formed in West Africa
* people who founded Mali was call Malinkes
* Mali's riches came from the gold-and-salt trade
* Mali grew twice as large as Ghana empire
* Mansa Musa great leader, 1307 to 1332
* Mansa Musa encouraged knowledge and study
* Mali became a center of learning
* Established a university at Timbuktu
Songhay

* Mali weakened and Songhay rose to power
* Grew rich from controlling trade routes
* Songhay overthrown by the ruler of Morocco in 1591

Homework

Chapter 11 Lesson 1 Review Page 371 Questions 1-5
Chapter 11 Lesson 2 Review Page 379 Questions 1-5

Remeber to review your daily geography each day.
Today's geograpy question was: 1. From which continent did early people probably begin their global migration?

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Test is Friday on the Five Themes of Geography
Be able to List the Five themes of Geography
Match the questions with the correct theme of geograpy
know what a circle, bubble and double map are

bring all materials to class each day
Geaux TIGERS LSU TIGERS #1

Classroom notes for Wednesday
Test on Friday
Practice using circle maps

Geaux Tigers
LSU Tigers
#1
Geography Is...
Location
* Where is it located?
* What are the latitude and longitude coordinates of this country?
* Where is this country located in relation to other countries, continents, or landforms?
* Where are this country's major cities, landforms, and resources?
Location
Where is it located?
* Absolute location - a precise point on the surface of the earth ( latitude and longitude or street names and numbers, indicate absolute location)
* Relative location - refers to the position of a point or place in relation to other places (example: France is located across the English Channel from England)

Place
the physical and human characteristics of a place that set it apart from other places
* What is it like there?
* What is this country's name, size, and population?
* What customs, religions, languages, and ethnic groups are found in this country?


Place

* What is it like there? It adds to the picture a river ( a physical feature) and a park ( a human feature )
* What do you think of when you envision the Grand Canyon? Niagara Falls? New York City? Paris, France?
Relationships Within Places:
how humans interact with the environment of a place--with both good and bad results
* How have the people in this place adapted to the climate?
* How has the climate affected the settlement of people within this country?
* What forms of energy do people of this country use?
Human/Environment Interaction
* What is the relationship between the people and the environment?
* How does an area change when settlement occurs?
Movement:
the movement of people, products, information, and ideas within a country and between countries
* Where do the majority of people live in this country?
* How are goods, services, and people transported within this country?
* What methods do people use to communicate ideas and information?


Movement
* How and why are places connected?
* The theme of movement looks at transportation and communication systems that link people in one location with those in another location.
Regions:
How regions form and change
* What kind of government does this country have and how was it formed?
* What political regions are located within this country?
* What are some of the unique characteristics of these regions?
* What are some of the major tourist attractions found in this country?
Regions
* A region is an area of the earth that has one or more common factors found throughout it.
* Human factors, such as language or government, or physical features, such as mountains climate, and vegetation help to define a region.

Classroom discussion on different types of maps
1. Circle Map - Defining in context

Classroom activity: create their own "My Story" using a Circle Map

Homework due on Tuesday, August 24

Family Circle Map