Essential
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1. How does geography promote or impede the movement of people and cultural diffusion?
2. Why do people live where they live? 3. How do people survive and thrive in an environment? |
1. Computer-Side Chat:
2. Vocabulary:
​Be able to define (quizstar quiz) and use these terms in your answers and blog post.
Prior to studying or writing down the definitions to the following words click on this link to see what words you already know.
1. Geography
2. Penninsula
3. Dependency
4. City-state
Short youtube explaining this term
5. Nationalism
6. Citizenship
7. Export
8. Colony
Short youtube explaining this term
9. Impede
10. Promote
11. Archipelago
12. Culture
13. Cultural diffusion
Link to quizlet: Quizlet Flashcards
1. Geography
2. Penninsula
3. Dependency
4. City-state
Short youtube explaining this term
5. Nationalism
6. Citizenship
7. Export
8. Colony
Short youtube explaining this term
9. Impede
10. Promote
11. Archipelago
12. Culture
13. Cultural diffusion
Link to quizlet: Quizlet Flashcards
3. Questions:
a. View Edpuzzle called Greece Geography (Geography and Early Greece)
​The Edpuzzle score will be taken for a grade Explain three ways the geography impacted Greece.
b. Describe the geography of the Greek Peninsula
-Use GoogleMaps, look up some maps of the Greek Peninsula, or click on this link for a short reading.
-Ohio 3d map
-Greece 3d map
c. Describe the geography of your city-state (Athens or Sparta). How will it impede or promote trade, travel, or culture? Give examples.
d. Create a chart explaining how the following geographic features effected Greek City-states:
Mediterranean Sea
Living on a Peninsula
Harbors
Rugged, jagged mountains
Limited plains/flat land
​The Edpuzzle score will be taken for a grade Explain three ways the geography impacted Greece.
b. Describe the geography of the Greek Peninsula
-Use GoogleMaps, look up some maps of the Greek Peninsula, or click on this link for a short reading.
-Ohio 3d map
-Greece 3d map
c. Describe the geography of your city-state (Athens or Sparta). How will it impede or promote trade, travel, or culture? Give examples.
d. Create a chart explaining how the following geographic features effected Greek City-states:
Mediterranean Sea
Living on a Peninsula
Harbors
Rugged, jagged mountains
Limited plains/flat land
e. Read the document below and describe how geography affects both city-state.
*Maybe make a chart or compare and contrast web.
*Maybe make a chart or compare and contrast web.
f. How do you think geography affected the population of your city-state?
Explain your answer.
g. How easy was it to grow food for your city-state? Explain your answer
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h. Why did so many Greece city-states colonize other areas of the world? What did they get from them? What did Greece give them? Explain your answer.
i. Does your city-state's geography make it more or less open to attack from other city-states and civilizations? Explain your answer (why do you feel this way)
Explain your answer.
g. How easy was it to grow food for your city-state? Explain your answer
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h. Why did so many Greece city-states colonize other areas of the world? What did they get from them? What did Greece give them? Explain your answer.
i. Does your city-state's geography make it more or less open to attack from other city-states and civilizations? Explain your answer (why do you feel this way)
4. Blog:
1. Remember to use the vocabulary words in your blog post.
2. Describe how you got to your city-state. Remember you are writing in First-Person, so your story must be written in your words and about you. This is historical fiction, so you must blend the facts you learn with the story of your traveling back in time to ancient Sparta or Athens.
3. Describe the geography that you see around you after landing in your chosen city-state (Athens or Sparta). How do you think that the geography effects the lives of the people there? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the geography?
4. Compare and contrast the geography of your city-state with the geography of modern day Northeast or Central, Ohio. What are the advantages and disadvantages of your modern day city's geography to your life and the success of your city?
2. Describe how you got to your city-state. Remember you are writing in First-Person, so your story must be written in your words and about you. This is historical fiction, so you must blend the facts you learn with the story of your traveling back in time to ancient Sparta or Athens.
3. Describe the geography that you see around you after landing in your chosen city-state (Athens or Sparta). How do you think that the geography effects the lives of the people there? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the geography?
4. Compare and contrast the geography of your city-state with the geography of modern day Northeast or Central, Ohio. What are the advantages and disadvantages of your modern day city's geography to your life and the success of your city?
Blog Rubric and Quest One template. Google Doc: File, Make copy. Click here
5. Quiz:
What was needed to establish these over seas Settlements? What word would we call these places? What would they get from each of these settlements?
