What is the most effective strategy in teaching spelling to children?
Looking at spelling patterns and vocabulary items
Why the Aztec and Inca empires falls when Spain came in 1500?
Despite the spains technological advancement, it was the European diseases such as small pox and measles that killed both populations by 80%
Mesopotamia was an early civilization advancement due to what geography development?
Central irrigation projects which resulted in population growth and a surplus of food
What did Qin Shi or the qin dynasty do?
Created a powerful government bureaucracy and army.
What are the terra cottas?
a type of clay that allowed for creating sculptures in the qin dynasty
The mogul dynasty?
Was associated with Ghengis khan and and kublai khan.
The Ming dynasty?
1300s-1600s , credited with completing Great Wall of China, naval voyages.
What did the Industrial Revolution do?
Major economic , political l, social changes. New technologies as coal mining , steam power and the railroad but created a new working class division between poor and rich
Which political events of , founding of Jesus’s society, revival of inquisition , establishment of index of prohibited books belong to which religious group?
The counter reformation , a direct response to Protestant reformation. Founded by Martin Luther, a German catholic, argued against the corruption in the Catholic Church.
What was the Silk Road?
Vast network of trade and cultural exchange from Asia to Europe. Christianity Islam and Judaism didn’t originate in China but foreigners who settled in China brought them from the Silk Road
What geographical factors accounted for the emergence of Byzantium powerful empire?
Constantinople controlled both the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea trade routes
What was a islamic scholarship on the development of european civilization?
the introduction of math concepts.
What dramatically increased during the war of 1812 in america?
The U.S trade embargo passed prior to the war and due to the british blockade during the war, it saw a domestic increase.
Following the purchase of lousiana territory, why did president Jefferson send Lewis and clark on a journey?
to follow the missouri river to its source and disocered a direct water route to the pacific ocean
who did we buy lousiana from?
france
when lewis and clark went exploring what did they realize?
the continental divide seperated the rivers that flowed west from those that flowed east. which resulted in the northwest passage ending.
What is the stamp act?
- a British parliamentary act that imposed the first direct tax on American colonists, requiring them to pay for an official stamp on all paper goods, including legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards
The doctrine of manifest destiny?
was an american ideology that they recieved the will of god to for the US to expand across north america and declared war on mexico for the annexation of texas, which also included claifornia, utah, arizona colorado, wyoming.
cotton gin?
developed by eli whitney in 1793, it was a machione that clean the seeds from the cotton and it revoluitioned slavery.
what accounted for 50% of american exports in 1830?
cotton
When was the Louisiana purchase?
1803
