SAQ Units 1 & 2

SAQs

100

The TEA acronym stands for 

Topic Sentence, Evidence, Analysis

200

How many sentences should a complete SAQ response include (including parts A, B, and C)? 

9

300

True or false, themes (e.g. Political, economic, cultural, etc.) are irrelevant for SAQs? 

False

400

True or false, i can receive half credit with a correct bullet-point response? 

False

500

Name the three types of Historical Thinking Skills (aka Historical Reasoning). 

Causation (cause and effect)

CCOT (change and continuity over time)

Compare/Contrast

Useful SAQ Content for Units 1 & 2

100

The three major trading networks are...

Silk Routes, Trans-Saharan (Sand) Routes, and Indian Ocean Routes

200

Two causes of the decline of the Mongol Empire are...

Bubonic Plague (Black Death)

Peasant Revolts in China

Factionalism 

300

Name three of the four Mongol Khanates

Yuan Dynasty (China), Chagatai Khanate (Central Asia), Il-khanate (Persia), Khanate of the golden Horde (Russia)

400

Name two empires founded by migrating Turkic peoples from Central Asia

Ottoman Empire

Sultanate of Delhi

Mamluk Empire

Seljuk Empire

500

Name two ways in which Islam spread in the period 1200-1450

Sufis, trade, military conquest

More Useful SAQ Content for Units 1 & 2

100

This epidemic wiped out up to 1/2 of Europe's population in the mid-14th century? 

Bubonic Plague (Black Death)

200

These two religions dominated South Asian culture in the period 1200-1450? 

Islam and Hinduism

300

Name two technological innovations associated with the Song Dynasty

Gunpowder, paper, compass

400

Name two commercial innovations associated with the Silk Routes

Flying Cash (paper money), Caravanserai, credit, 

500

This is the name of the Muslim traveler who wrote disapprovingly of sub-Saharan Gender relations when he visited the Kingdom of Mali? 

Ibn Battuta

Know your Classmates

100

This Period 2 student has set personal best scores in Minecraft and Roblox during class (two answers acceptable)? 

Tripp and/or Ander

200

This Period 8 student has visited every single place that we have discussed so far this semester? 

Travelin' Reed

300

This French-speaking and timekeeping Period 6 student is seeking redemption and another shot at Mock Trial fame, which is why he sits next to Finn? 

Perk

400

Shhh...This Period 4 student has been asleep for most of the semester? 

Andrew W. 

500

Ohio! This Period 6 student is an expert on all things Skibidi? 

Vada (Skibidi Rizik also acceptable)

Know your Classmates II

400

This Period 6 student averages about five missed blocking assignments each JV football game? 

Ben L. 

500

Cough...sneeze...choke...spill...this Period 8 student is a walking public health crisis? 

Ansley