Today in Western Civilizations: 10/25/11

TODAY'S RUNDOWN:

• Engineering an Empire:  "Da Vinci's World" (write these main ideas down now!)
• Waking up after the long sleep following the fall of Rome
• The rise of tiny republics
• City-States create alliances and struggle with one another to gain control of Italy
• Famous masters of art and architecture were also some of the greatest military and civil engineers of the age.
• IWT:  Vocabulary/Cities

REMINDERS/COMING UP:

• Remember to check your folders (green) if you've been absent!
• Pick up Graded Scrapbooks and Binders
• Thursday
• Cities Quiz #2 (Cities #16-30)
• Monday 10/31
• Binder/CNN Log Check
• Skyward Check
• Wednesday 11/2
• Age of Change Test
• Get on board w/ Skyward!
• Vocabulary Due

Unit Vocabulary For The Age of Change:


Top 10 Vocab:

1. Renaissance
2. Secular
3. Perspective
4. Printing Press
5. Utopia
6. Protestant Reformation
7. Circumnavigate
8. Capitalism
9. Joint-Stock Company
10. Mercantilism

All-Stars:

1. Leonardo Da Vinci
2. Martin Luther
3. Johannes Gutenberg
4. Christopher Columbus
5. William Shakespeare

2nd Tier Terms & People:

1. Niccolo Machiavelli
2. Galileo Galilei
3. Michelangelo
4. Nicholas Copernicus
5. Sir Thomas More
6. Balance of Trade
7. Humanism
8. Indulgences
9. 95 Theses
10. Predestination
11. Amerigo Vespucci
12. Henry the Navigator
13. Magellan
14. Hernan Cortes
15. Henry VIII