Mesopotamia
Introduction to WC
India
Japan
China
100

This is what Mesopotamia literally means.

What is between two rivers? 

100

This is the name of the active reading strategy that we used in World Cultures this year. 

What is SQ4R?

100

This is the mountain range that is the source of the Ganges river.

What are The Himalayan mountains?

100

This is the geographic term that refers to all 10,000 island of Japan.

What is archipelago? 


100

This is the predominant crop grown in SouthEast China? 

What is rice..

200

This is the earliest highly developed written system called?

What is cuneiform?

200

This Cultural Universal includes the system of trading and bartering. 

What is Economics?

200

This is the name of the seasonal rain patterns in India.

What is monsoon?

200

This was the name of the warrior class in Ancient Japan. 

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Who are Samurai

200

This is the group that fought against the Communists during The Republic period.

Who are The Nationalists?

300

This is the name given to the system of twelve constellations in the sky that give the months their names

What is the Zodiac?

300

These are all of the places around the world we studied this year. 

What are Egypt, Mesopotamia, Japan, India, and China?

300

This is area of one of the earliest Indian civilizations and/or regions. 

What is the Indus River Valley?

300

This is the social and legal system in which people are organized into samurai, peasants, merchants, artisans.

What is Feudalism?

300

These were large farming regions created during The Great Leap Forward. 

What are the communes?

400

In Egyptian embalming, what is done with the heart?

 What is left in the body?

400

These are the seven cultural universals.

What are Basic Needs, Economics, Communication, Social Structure, Government, Religion & Beliefs, and Arts/Recreation

400

This is the raised plateau between the Eastern and Western Ghats.

What is the Deccan Plateau?

400

This position is the leader of the Bakufu.

What is shogun?

400

These are the three philosophical schools of thought during Dynastic China. 

What are Legalism, Confucianism, and Daoism? 

500

This is the name of the central temple in a Mesopotamian central city.

What is a Ziggurat?

500

These are the three essential questions that we used this year in World Cultures.


What are: 1. Why is the past important? 2. How does geography impact culture? 3. Hows is a story best told? 

500
This is the name of the peoples who arrived to the subcontinent from the Central Asian steppes.

Who are the Aryans?

500

This painting from 1805 showed the Nihon Bashi district in Edo.

What is the Kidai Shoran painting?

500
These were the four themes we discussed when comparing Dynastic and Communist China. 

What are Leadership, Nature, Social Structure, and Education? 

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