Commodities
What is China?
A social class that was divided into two different groups with different sets of rights: serfs and freeman.
What are peasants?
This religion spread to Southeast Asia as a result of the Indian Ocean/Spice Trade. The most spectacular evidence of this is the Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia.
What is Hinduism?
The group that was expected to lead religious ceremonies as well as provide care and assistance to the sick and needy in society.
Who were priests (church leaders)?
This Gr. 7 I&S teacher has two sons.
Who is Mr. Boehm?
Valuable spices like black pepper, cloves, and nutmeg were grown in this region.
What is Southeast Asia/India?
Members of this social class often joined guilds which provided training, enforced the quality of products, and limited competition.
What are artisans?
What is Arabic?
The practice of paying 10% of all earnings to the church.
What was tithing?
These I&S teachers speak Spanish.
Who are Mr. King and Ms. Chavez?
Tea was originally grown and exported from this region/part of China.
What is Southwest China (Yunnan and Sichuan)?
The justification for a monarch's power over the country.
What is divine right?
Yersinia Pestis, the bacteria that causes bubonic plague, spread from this location.
Where is Central Asia/China?
A piece of land that was granted by a king to a noble or church leader in return for a oath of loyalty. This made the noble a vassal to the king.
What is a fief?
This I&S teacher used to teach in the elementary school at Stamford?
Mr. Boehm
The two commodities were important in developing the Trans-Saharan trade route.
What are gold and salt?
Rules that existed in various countries around Europe that limited certain colors (purple, gold) and fabrics (silk, velvet) to the nobility.
What are sumptuary laws?
The winds that made trade across the Indian Ocean easy. Traders could quickly and easily travel from East Africa, Arabia, and India to Southeast Asia and back by following these during the right season.
What are monsoons?
The two social classes in medieval England that had the right to be tried by a jury of their peers (people of the same class/group).
What are Priests/Church Officials and Nobles?
This Gr. 7 I&S teacher is from Washington state in the USA.
Ms. Chavez
Spices were valuable because they improved the taste of food. They were valuable for other reasons as well. Name at least one other.
Preserving food (keeping it fresh longer)
Medicinal properties (used to handle health problems)
Religious/ceremonial purposes.
The type of education given to artisans. This education included years of training in a specific craft in order to develop expertise. To "graduate" and start working independently, students would have to create a masterpiece that was judged by experts.
What is apprenticeship?
This Middle Eastern city is one of the most ancient cities in the world and grew in size as a result of the spice trade in the Middle Ages.
It is also the where a recent revolution occured that saw the former President Bashar al-Assad flee the country this week.
What is Damascus?
This priest was a major figure of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. He preached that all social classes should be equal. He was eventually hung and killed by the government of King Richard II.
Who was John Ball?
This I&S teacher's first job was working at Dairy Queen.