World+Cultures

= World Cultures  =

Unit Review:









Zhou Dynasty Leaders: Zhou Wenwang and Zhou Wuwang

Information for Chinese Dynasties Graphic Organizer can be found here: 

China/Japan Warm-up materials: 1. **Plateaus** – a usually extensive land area having a relatively level surface raised sharply above adjacent land on at least one side. 2. **Dynasty** – A family or group that maintains power for several generations. 3. **Proverb** – a short, memorable, and often highly condensed saying that serves as an example of some commonplace fact or experience. 4. **non-theistic –** A belief system that does not teach the existence or reliance on a supreme being 5. **Nuclear Family** – traditionally a wife and husband along with their children living in close proximity. 6. **Extended Family** – several generations of a family living in one household and/or in close proximity. 7. **Interdependence** – mutual dependence of countries on goods, resources, and knowledge from other parts of the world. **8.** What country recently suffered three natural disasters in 72 hours? **Indonesia** 9. The U.S. Government is concerned about a terrorist threat because of packages sent from what country? **Yemen** **10.** What country recently had a city council approve a ban on football games in public parks and squares, blasphemy out loud, and "very skimpy clothes“? **Italy** 11. **Exports** – Goods sent to markets outside the country of origin.  12. **Imports** – Good received from outside the country.  13. President Obama is in the midst of a trip to improve trade relations with which two countries? **India and Indonesia** 14. What person of royal blood recently joined Facebook? **Queen Elizabeth II** 15. A building fire that killed 79 people is prompting what country to change its fire control plan? **China** **Capitalism** – Another name for the free market economy in which individuals own and produce goods for a profit **.**
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 * Propaganda** - ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause
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 * Communism** - a theory advocating elimination of private property through a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed.

Click Here for the Video and assignment on Liu Xiaobo winning the Nobel Peace Prize

Middle East Review:

Click Here for Video of Palestinian Suicide Bombers

**Current Events assignment**

 * Here is a copy of the weekly current events assignment. It is due every Friday unless Mr. Shipley tells you otherwise. The assignment is worth 20 points.**



Here is a completed example of what the current events assignment should look like.