Monday, February 8, 2010

bell ringer, Webquest and Africa Review 02-08-10

bell ringer

1. Africa is about 40% savanna and 20% Desert
2. the features and similar

Webquest

European Empires Webquest Words

1. Mycenaean: it was a cultural period in ancient Greece
2. Trojan War: it was a war between the city of Troy and the Achaeans, after the prince of Troy stole Helen, The Achaeans’ general’s wife
3. Homer: he is said to be the author of Lliad and Odyssey
4. Polis: it is a city-state
5. Helot: it was one of the classes of serfs in ancient Sparta
6. Phalanx: it was a tight rectangular battle formation
7. Persian War: it was the war between a the Persians and Greece
8. Peloponnesian War: it was a war between Greece and the Peloponnesian league led by Sparta
9. Socrates: he was a Greek mythologist
10. Plato: he was a Greek mythologist
11. Aristotle: he was a Greek mythologist
12. Alexander the Great: he was the great emperor and conqueror or Rome
13. Republic: it is a form of government in which the head of government is not monarch
14. Patrician: it was the highest class of the Roman Empire
15. Plebeian: it was the middle class of the Roman Empire
16. Punic War: it was a series of wars between Rome and Carthage
17. Hannibal: he was a Carthaginian military commander and technician
18. Julius Caesar: he was a Roman military and political leader who transformed Rome into an empire
19. Triumvirate: the alliance between Julius Cesar, Pompey and Marcus Crassus
20. Augustus: he was the emperor after Julius Caesar died
21. Jesus: he is the son of god according to the Catholic Church
22. Constantine: he was the first Christian Roman Emperor
23. Constantinople: it is modern day Istanbul in turkey
24. Attila: he was the emperor of the Huns
25. Justinian: he was the second ruler of the Justinian Dynasty and is considered a saint by the Catholic Church
26. Hagia Sophia: it was an important monument of the Byzantine and Ottaman empire but it is a museum today in Istanbul
27. Gengis Khan: he was the first emperor of the Mongol empire
28. Kublai Khan: he was the second emperor of the Mongol empire

1 comment:

  1. All Post show some undertanding of topic. Answers to questions are correct but not in depth 12/20
    Note Review Sheets are completed, but lack in depth descriptive answers 16/20
    Id and Define Webquest is complete but is not in correct form and does not show an actual understanding of the terms 16/20
    Assignments other than the Note Review and Webquest are over 50% complete, posted, and evident of learning 16/20

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