Review Sheet

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I'm copying and pasting in my review sheet that was handed out to students in class today. A few students left their review sheet behind so here's what was on it:

Name: ___________ Class: _____
Grade 8 Social Study Guide

· The final exam is 200 questions multiple choice.
· Study your old Chapter tests as the final is based on them.

Renaissance
· Know your Renaissance vocabulary
· Understand what the Silk Road was
· Understand the Black Plague
· Art and Architecture of the middle ages
· When the Renaissance was
· The Hierarchy class system/feudal system
· Important people
· Understand religions of the time period and who the important religious figures were
· Be able to locate major city centres of Italy on a map
· Know your artists, scientists, writers, mathematicians
· Expansionism and Exploration
· Which countries had significant empires of the Renaissance
· Which diseases the Europeans brought to the colonies
· Which European explorers came to Canada


Japan
· Know your vocabulary of Japan
· Geography of Japan, locations of places on a map
· Ring of Fire
· Isolation and the Edo Period
· National Seclusion Policy
· Know the Feudal system of Japan
· The 3 metropolis’ of Japan
· Name of popular theatre and poet
· The 3 important Shoguns
· Religion of Japan
· Valuable commodities of Japan
· The Ainu People
· The Dutch
· China
· United States importance to Japan
· Civil unrest in Japan
· The Emperor
· Meiji Government
· Iwakura mission
· Countries Japan modeled itself after
· Fukuzawa Yakichi
· Samurai
· Dajokan


The Spanish and Aztecs
· Know your Spanish and Aztec vocabulary
· Spanish Soldiers
· Ancient Aztec books
· What were the uses of Jade, Gold, Turquoise, and Obsidian
· Huitzilopochtli and Quetzalcoatl
· Aztec and Spanish military force
· Spanish cottage industry
· Aztec currency
· Aztec farming techniques
· Where the Aztecs settled and why
· Human sacrifice
· Jaguar and Eagle knights
· Ruling monarchy of the Aztecs and Spanish
· Important people of the battle between the Aztecs and Spanish
· Causeways and Aqueducts
· Be able to locate important locations on maps of Mexico and Spain
· Who ruled Spain for 700 years
· Reconquista and the Spanish Inquisition
· Spanish animals that the Aztecs didn’t have
· Calendars
· Warfare of the two groups
· The downfall of the Aztecs
· Spanish conversion of the Aztecs
· Mixed blood Spanish and Aztecs