Geography
What are the names of the lines that run from North to South around the globe and what is the first thing you should do to understand a map?
Longitude, look at the key/legend
Where did the Aztec and Inca live?
Inca: South America - Modern day Peru
Which countries had colonies in the Americas and which county had the most?
Bonus: What century is the year 1492?
Spain, Portugal, France, England (Dutch/Netherlands). Spain had the most
Bonus: 15th Century
What is the absence of government?
Anarchy
What is a budget?
A plan for your money
What is the 0 degree line of latitude that splits the world into a Northern and Southern hemisphere
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What is the 0 degree line of longitude that splits the world into an Eastern and Western hemisphere
Latitude: The Equator
Longitude: The Prime Meridian
What were the Aztec or Inca known for?
Bonus - Name the Aztec capital city and the lake it was on
Aztec: Chinampas, Temples, Human Sacrifice, Calendars, Cities, Food
Incas: Roads, Temples, Architecture, Terrace Farming, Bridges, Gold, Food Storage, Sacrifice, Medicine, Surgery, Machu Picchu
Bonus: Tenochtitlan, Lake Texcoco
What motivated early explorers?
GGG
God, gold & glory
What is a type of government where one person holds all the power? Typically, citizens in this type of government do not have rights and do not vote
Dictatorship
What's the right way to use a credit card?
Pay it in full and on time
Name the 3 regions that we studied
North America
Central America
South America
What are some examples of culture?
Language, art, religion, customs, clothes, festivals, rituals, stories, activities
What were some of the consequences/results of colonization and the Colombian Exchange
Genocide and slavery of indigenous people
Connected the "old world" and the "new world"
Movement of food, animals, disease, beliefs, ideas, technology and people between the new and old world
Name 2 types of governments (not including any previously said) and their characteristics
Monarchy - Ruled by a king/queen/emperor/sultan etc
Oligarchy - Ruled by a small group of people
Junta - An oligarchy ruled by the military
Theocracy - Ruled by religion
Autocracy - Ruled by one person
What are the 3 questions every economic system asks and answers?
What to produce, how to produce it and who to produce it for
Give an example of an absolute and a relative location
Absolute: 39°N, 106°W
Relative: By the black table in front of the 6th grade entrance
What led to the fall of the Aztec and the Inca?
The Spanish, disease (smallpox), uprising of other indigenous people (Aztec), civil war (Inca)
A treaty between Spain and Portugal where the Pope drew a line on a map and gave any new land discovered west of that line to Spain and any new land east of that line to Portugal
What were the names given to the working class and the owners by the father of Communism?
Bonus: What is the name of the father of Communism?
Working Class: Proletariat
Owners: Bourgeois
Bonus: Karl Marx
What does GDP tell us?
Bonus: what does GDP stand for?
The total value of a countries economy
Bonus: Gross Domestic Product
Define Geography
The study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources, land use, and industries.
Name the leaders of the Aztec and Inca and the Conquistadors who conquered them
Aztec: Montezuma
Conquistador: Hernan Cortez
Inca: Atahualpa
Conquistador: Francisco Pizarro
What were some of the things that led to the Age of Revolutions?
Bonus - What was the name of the second country to successfully revolt during the Age of Revolutions?
Bonus: Haiti/Hispaniola
Name 2 of the main ideas of Communism
Equal pay for everybody
Providing everything that citizens need to live
Shared ownership of the means of production
The Proletariat needed to overthrow the Bourgeois
When looking at investments that compound, what is the biggest factor that you can control in order to make more money?
Time