O' Canada
Tim Hortons is a beloved Canadian coffee shop chain, but it is no longer Canadian owned! More importantly, this company is named after an athlete who played ____.
Hockey.
The rough range of years for the Age of Exploration
1400s-1600s CE
15th-17th centuries
The capital city of Colombia
Bogotá
Mansa Musa was the king of this West African empire.
Mali Empire
True or False: Slavery did not exist in Africa before the arrival of European explorers
False
Mr. Huh wears this brand of shoes almost everyday.
Blundstone
True or False: Canada was originally the 51st state of the USA
False
This Mesoamerican ball game was played by hitting a animal skin ball with one's hips into a small vertically aligned hoop on a rock wall.
Ulama
The Dutch Empire was active along the East Coast of the USA, famously buying the Island of Manhattan for only $24 from the Indigenous Native Americans at the time. They also colonized modern day New York City, calling it ________ in those days.
New Amsterdam
The first two European empires studied in the Europeanization or Globalization unit.
1) Spanish Empire
2) Dutch Empire
This polygonaly-themed name is another way of calling the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
Triangular Trade
This is the year that Mr. Huh first immigrated to Canada; it is also the same year that the Iraq War began.
2003
Name 3 provinces and 1 territory of Canada
Territories: NV, NWT, YK
A conquistador from Spain, this man went on to Cuba and eventually Mexico, annihilating the Aztec empire, along with millions of Indigenous Mesoamericans consequently.
Hernán Cortés
Which three continents did the Silk Road cover?
1) Asia
2) Africa
3) Europe
Christopher Columbus, Francisco Pizarro and Hernán Cortés were all from this empire.
Spanish Empire
Name three major goods that were traded in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
1) Tobacco
2) Cotton
3) Sugarcane
4) Molasses
5) Slaves
6) Coffee
7) Cloth
While he was decent at it, Social Studies was not Mr. Huh's favourite subject in high school. It was in fact it was these two subjects.
English and Band
This Toronto-based hip hop artist got into a beef with Kendrick Lamar, who went on to absolutely humiliate him with his Superbowl Performance in 2025.
Drake
Incan Empire
The longest contiguous mountain range in South America
The Andes Mountains
This European empire caused the Berlin Conference fiasco by first colonizing the Congo.
Belgian Empire
La Marie-Séraphique and L'Aurore were two slave-carrying ships from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade that we saw in video recreations. They transported slaves to Saint-Domingue, which is this modern day Caribbean country.
Haiti
Mr. Huh continues to hold the record for this exercise at Sentinel according to the weight-room's record board.
Pushups
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau decided to resign as Prime Minister in early 2025. This person, who is not a Member of Parliament, got almost 86% of the vote to become the new interim Prime Minster of Canada on March 9.
Mark Carney
The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 saw the gathering of major European powers at the time to decide on how to divide and colonize Africa, without African consent. Which two African countries resisted colonization and remained independent?
1) Ethiopia
2) Liberia
Name all 5 oceans of the world
1) Arctic
2) Pacific
3) Atlantic
4) Indian
5) Southern
The Aztec Empire was located in modern day 1)_____ while the Incan Empire was located in modern day 2)_____.
1) Mexico
2) Peru
This was a legal framework set forth by the Catholic church in the 15th century in a series of "papal bulls" (declarations) to legitimize claiming of Indigenous lands if there were no other Christians inhabiting those lands. The Vatican officially repudiated this in March of 2023.
Doctrine of Discovery
Mr. Huh is one of the few Korean teachers in the West Vancouver School district, and one of two at Sentinel. Who is the other Korean teacher at Sentinel?
Ms. Jiang
The date that Canada was founded
July 1, 1867
The Muisca
Alberta's license plate features a red wild rose and its slogan is "Wild Rose Country", whereas British Columbia features the BC flag or one of many BC Parks (since 2017). _______ is British Columbia's slogan.
Beautiful British Columbia
In order for an empire to become an empire, it first needs these subsumed under their power. An empire can have one or many of these, the number of which often correlates with their perceived power.
Colonies
There were approximately this number of slaves that were transported from Africa to the Americas and Europe during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
12.5 million
Name all the courses that Mr. Huh is teaching this year
1) Social Studies 8
2) Social Studies 9
3) Human Geography 12
4) Work Experience
5) Computers 8