1: History, Geography & Chicago, Baby!
2: Remember Ancient Civilizations?
3: Revisiting Revolutions!
4: Capitalist, Communism, & More!
5: Current Events: Israel & Palestine
100
What are history and corroboration?
Using multiple historical sources to create arguments about the past
100
What describes the world’s oldest set of written laws coming from Mesopotamia, including ideas such as “an eye for an eye”?
Hammurabi's code
100
Describe the Enlightenment: what were its major ideas, and when did it happen?
a philosophical movement in the 17th-18th centuries which emphasized reason/evidence over tradition/religion
100
Describe at least 3 ways that the Industrial Revolution impacted women.
Women began to work with their husbands in factories (although they were paid less) or as domestic servants
Women gained more freedom through wages
- Women were injured in factories.
100
What term describes an agreement to stop war and fighting or a truce?
Ceasefire
200
Describe the idea of a sanctuary city.
A city where officials do not help immigration police deport people
200
What was the Neolithic Revolution and where did it take place?
The transition from foraging to farming, which took place in the Middle East
200
Describe at least 5 facts about Toussaint Louverture.
1801 Haitian (Toussaint) Constitution
After the slave rebellion of 1791, the 1801 Haitian Constitution explained how Saint Domingue would remain in the French empire, but be ruled by separate laws, notably including the abolition of slavery and the power of Toussaint Louverture to oversee the army, government, and communication with France. The Constitution was written by Toussaint, along with 7 white people and 2 free people of color. It was written in response to Napoleon’s rise to power in France.
The representatives of the colony of Saint-Domingue, gathered in Central Assembly, have arrested and established the constitutional bases of the regime of the French colony of Saint-Domingue as follows:
TITLE II: Of the Inhabitants
Art. 3. - There cannot exist slaves on this territory, servitude is therein forever abolished. All men are born, live and die free and French.
TITLE VI: Of Cultures and Commerce
Art. 14. – The colony being essentially agricultural cannot suffer the least disruption in the works of its cultivation [sugar plantation economy]…
TITLE VIII: Of the Government
Art. 28. – The Constitution nominates the citizen Toussaint-Louverture, Chief General of the army of Saint-Domingue, and, in consideration for important services rendered to the colony, in the most critical circumstances of the revolution, and upon the wishes of the grateful inhabitants, he is entrusted the direction for the remainder of his glorious life…
1) Was born enslaved
2) Later became a free person of color, who owned his own plantation
3) Haitian
4) Led the Haitian Revolution
5) Wrote a constitution in 1801, which banned slavery, but kept the plantation economy
6) Eventually captured by France, and died in prison in 1804
200
What is urbanization, and how did effect the population of England?
The population dramatically increased, and started moving from the countryside to the cities
200
What term describes prejudice, discrimination, or hostility against Jewish people?
Anti-Semitism
300
Describe the idea of redlining.
The practice of denying home loans to certain neighborhoods; preventing them from building wealth with homes
300
What describes a period of Chinese history in which one family controls the government? (For example, the Song ________)
Dynasty
300
1) Name the three estates found in this photo of pre-revolutionary 18th century France.
2) What is the event this is depicted in this photo?
1st: Clergy, 2nd: Nobles, 3rd: Everyone else (peasants, farmers, bourgeoisie)
- Storming of the Bastille Prison (July 14, 1789)
300
Describe the author and meaning of the following quote.
“The proletarians [workers] have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES UNITE.”
Karl Marx, a communist, believed that workers should take the means of production from capitalists in order to create a communist state.
300
1) Describe the meaning of the term Zionism.
2) Are all Jewish people Zionists?
1) An international movement for creating/supporting a Jewish nation-state, dating back to the late 19th century
2) According to public polling, most but not all
400
Because map projection requires representing a 3D globe on a 2D plane, all maps have mispresentations and tradeoffs. What are these called, and what are 4 kinds of of them?
Map distortion:
size, shape, distance, direction
400
These floating farms that the Mexica used for irrigation and farming were often found in their capital city of Tenochtitlan.
Chinampas
400
1) What is the best description of feudalism, 2) Where did it happen, and 3) Why did it come into creation as a system?
A political system in which lower classes gave their loyalty to higher classes in exchange for protection
It became a system after previous empires in Japan & Europe
It happened because Germanic Tribes and rebels toppled the previous Roman & Japanese Empires
400
Describe the differences between capitalism, socialism, & communism.
Capitalism
An economic/political system in which a country's trade & industries are controlled by private owners for profit
Socialism
A system in which the government regulates most parts of the economy, while individuals & private businesses also make their own economic decisions
Communism
A system in which the government owns & regulates all aspects of the economy
400
Label the following territories:
1) Israel, West Bank, Gaza Strip
500
a. In Chicago, alderman run one of 50 districts called ________.
b. Name at least 3 things that alderman do for their _______.
a. Ward
b. Invest in the neighborhood, fix properties, potholds; listen to citizens; represent them in city hall, etc.
500
Describe at least 2 pros and 2 cons of the transition from foraging to farming.
Pros
1. More food
2. More specialization of labor
3. Less need to be nomadic
Cons
1. More sexual division of labor
2. More hierarchy/unequal social classes
3. Less leisure time
500
Describe the scientific revolution and name at least three different discoveries from it.
a movement in the 16th-17th centuries which changed people's perceptions of reason and the natural world
Copernicus’s Heliocentric Theory, Galileo’s theories about gravity, and Kepler’s analysis of planetary motion, etc.
500
Based on the image, describe what political system the author would want and why.
Socialism or communism; the picture is showing working people who are oppressed trying to rise up against the capitalist class.
500
1) Which group killed over 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023?
2) Since then, describe Israel's response: where has the majority of bombing taken place, and what has happened?
1) Hamas
2) Israel has killed over 19,000 Palestinians in the Gaza strip, as well as cut of access to water, food, medical supplies, and fuel