Random things about Alberta
This major summer festival continues to draw international visitors with rodeo events, concerts, and exhibitions.
What is the Calgary Stampede?
This religious practice was believed to keep the sun moving across the sky.
What is human sacrifice?
Renaissance artists used this technique to create depth in paintings.
What is perspective?
This class of warriors followed a strict code of honour.
What is the samurai?
These are the ideas a society accepts as true and uses to guide decisions.
What are beliefs?
This natural hazard has led to early spring smoke advisories and evacuation alerts in several Alberta communities.
What are wildfires?
This was the capital city of the Aztec Empire.
What is Tenochtitlan?
This movement emphasized human potential and the study of classical texts.
What is Humanism?
This military leader held real power during the Edo period.
Who is the Shogun?
This factor—mountains, rivers, climate—can shape how a society sees the world.
What is geography?
Population growth has increased demand for this, especially in Calgary and surrounding communities.
What is housing?
He was the Spanish conquistador who led the attack on the Aztecs.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
This city‑state is often called the birthplace of the Renaissance.
What is Florence?
This city became one of the world’s largest by the 1700s, reflecting Japan’s shift toward urban culture under Tokugawa rule.
What is Edo?
These are the things a society thinks are important, such as respect or loyalty.
What are values?
Southern Alberta continues to expand these projects, including wind and solar farms.
What is renewable energy?
This weapon, unfamiliar to the Aztecs, gave the Spanish a psychological advantage despite their small numbers.
What are horses?
This term describes the system where wealthy patrons supported artists.
What is patronage?
This Tokugawa policy limited foreign contact to a single port and was designed to protect Japan’s social order from outside influence, especially Christianity.
What is isolation?
When two societies see the world differently, this can happen.
What is conflict?
Record numbers of visitors to Banff and Jasper have boosted this sector of Alberta’s economy.
What is tourism?
This Aztec deity, associated with the sun and war, was believed to require human offerings to ensure the sun’s daily journey across the sky.
Who is Huitzilopochtli ?
Merchants and bankers belonged to this rising social class.
What is the Middle Class?
This event in 1853 pressured Japan to end isolation.
What is the arrival of Commodore Perry?
When societies meet and share ideas, this can change their worldview.
What is contact?