The Basics
This subject studies history, geography, culture, economics, and government.
Social studies
Mesopotamia was the first one of these in human history.
Civilization
These two things made West Africans so rich they built empires.
Salt & gold
Japan
This rapper said some antisemitic things on Twitter and got himself kicked off.
Kanye West
These are the guidelines we use to have respectful conversations in class.
Accountable talk
Water
Ghana, Mali, and Songhai are the names of this.
The 3 great kingdoms of Western Africa
Thomas Hobbes believed that humans were naturally really awful, so he had this opinion about government.
These two countries have been at war with each other for the last year and a half with no real end in sight yet.
Russia & Ukraine
This is the acronym we use to help us write argumentative paragraphs.
You will lose points if you make that ONE joke everyone's made all year about it ...
RACES
The Middle East has a lot of this thing that makes some people very rich.
Oil
This is the movement of people, stuff, and ideas around the world.
Globalization
Kim Jong-Un, Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin are the leaders of this type of government.
Dictatorship
This former US president was indicted on criminal charges and will face trial.
Donald Trump
This is what we do when we see a word we don't know during a close reading.
Circle it
Under this King's laws, a firefighter who steals while putting out a fire would then be burned alive.
King Hammurabi
He was the richest person in all of human history.
Mansa Musa
This type of government bases all of its laws off of a religion
Theocracy
This royal lady passed away at the start of the school year.
It means "the way you see something."
Perspective
This was the world's first superhero and minor character in a recent Marvel movie.
Gilgamesh
We have less globalization today than we did five years ago because of this.
Coronavirus, rising fascism/hatred
This type of government has the happiest citizens.
Direct & representative democracies
This technology started making waves for its ability to pretend to be human.
Artificial Intelligence