Friday, March 2, 2012

Study Guide: Japanese Feudalism, Mongols and African Kingdoms

Exam: Thursday, March 8, 2012
Exam Format:Multiple Choice (20 Qs); Mapping (20 Qs)

Materials to Study:
Ch. 12, Sec. 4 (Shintoism, Japanese Feudalism)
Ch. 12, Sec. 2/3 (Mongols)
Ch. 8, Sec. 1 (African Geography)
Ch. 15, Sec. 2 (African Kingdoms)
Shintoism Worksheet
Feudalism in Japan documents and samurai vs knight story
Packet on Mongols
Packet on African Kingdoms

Key Terms to Know:
Shintoism
Samurai
Shogun
Bushido
Feudalism

Pastoralist
Clans
Khanates
Genghis Khan
Kublai Khan
Marco Polo

Natural Barriers
Animism
Desertificaion
Sahel
West African Kingdom
Mali, Ghana, Songhai
Islam
Mansa Musa
Ibn Battuta

Mapping Items to Know:

Map of Japan:
Hokkaido
Shikoku
Honshu
Kyushu
Tokyo
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Mt. Fuji

Map of Africa:

Niger River
Lake Victoria
Lake Chad
Red Sea
Congo River
Mediterranean Sea
Atlas Mountains
Mt. Kilimanjaro
Sahel
Kalahari Desert
Great Rift Valley
Libyan Desert

Study Options:

1. Spend 20 minutes a day studying on your own (you can do it on the train!)
2. Come see Ms. Hanemann for 10 minutes of power studying during Lunch and Learn or SOS (or both!)

How to Use Your Notes for Studying:
1. Highlight Questions from Headings in HW
2. Do your notes answer the heading questions? If not, what are the answers to those questions?
3. Highlight Vocabulary from HW and in class assignments (including notes)
4. Find places where your HW notes match up with our classwork/class notes. If the information is in both then that means its IMPORTANT!
5. Find places where all of your notes and assignments match up with the Study Guide-- THAT MEANS ITS ON THE EXAM!
6. Can you answer all of the Aims from class since we began our work on the Japanese Feudalism, the Mongols, African Kingdoms

Practice Multiple Choice
Feudal Japan
African Kingdoms
There are no practice questions for the Mongols