EVALUATION

Your grade will be determined from a wide variety of assignments and types of evaluations.
Course Participation 20%
Weekly Response Journals 20%
Midterm Exam 15%
Oral History Project 20%
Final Exam 15%
5 of 7 (Now only 5 of 6 due to weather) Map Quizzes 10% (Can throw out two worst scores)

MIDTERM EXAM

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MAP QUIZZES

SouthWest Asia Map Quiz (Wednesday, October 2nd)
Ancient SW Asia (BLACK SEA, CASPIAN SEA, PERSIAN GULF, RED SEA, MEDITERRANEAN SEA, TIGRIS RIVER, UPHRATES RIVER, NILE RIVER, ARABIA, MESOPOTAMIA, SYRIA, ANATOLIA, PALESTINE, SINAI PENINSULA, DEAD SEA, BABYLON, JERICO)

Modern SW Asia (RUSSIA, GEORGIA, TURKEY, SYRIA, IRAQ, IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA, LEBANON, ISRAEL, JERUSALEM, JORDAN, GAZA STRIP, BLACK SEA, CASPIAN SEA, MEDITERRANEAN SEA, RED SEA, DEAD SEA, PERSIAN GULF)

Africa Map Quiz (Wednesday, October23rd)
Ancient Africa including Ancient Egypt, Kemet, and Nubia (BANTU HOMELAND, GHANA EMPIRE, MALI EMPIRE, KUSH, NUBIA, LOWER KEMET, UPPER KEMET, EGYPT, KEMET, SAHARA DESERT, NILE RIVER, CAIRO, MEDITERRANEAN SEA, ATLANTIC OCEAN, INDIAN OCEAN, RED SEA, NIGER RIVER, CONGO RIVER, LAKE VICTORIA, LAKE CHAD, AXUM, ZIMBABWE, MOMBASA, MADAGASCAR)

Modern Africa ( EGYPT, NILE RIVER, GHANA, CONGO, ETHIOPIA, KENYA, TANZANIA, SOUTH AFRICA, MADAGASCAR, ANGOLA, MOROCCO, SUDAN, NIGERIA, MEDITERRANEAN SEA, ATLANTIC OCEAN, INDIAN OCEAN, RED SEA)

South Asia (Wednesday, October 30th)
Ancient South Asia and here for the closeup (BACTRIA, ARABIAN SEA, PERSIAN GULF, ARAL SEA, CASPIAN SEA, BAY OF BENGAL, GANGES RIVER, INDUS RIVER, DELHI, HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS, AFGHANISTA, HINDU KUSH, BENGAL)

Modern South Asia (NEW DELHI, PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, CHINA, BURMA, NEPAL, BANGLADESH, SHRI LANKA, ARABIAN SEA, BHOPAL)

East Asia (Wednesday, November 6th)
Ancient East Asia: map one and map two (YELLOW RIVER, YANGZI RIVER, MEKONG RIVER,YELLOW SEA, NAGASAKI, SEA OF JAPAN, SOUTH CHINA SEA, EAST CHINA SEA, GREAT WALL OF CHINA, KOREA, GOBI DESERT)

Modern East Asia (INDIA, NEPAL, PAKISTAN, CHINA, AFGHANISTAN, UZBEKISTAN, KAZAKHSTAN, RUSSIA, MONGOLIA, NORTH KOREA, SOUTH KOREA, JAPAN, TAIWAN, PHILLIPINES, VIETNAM, THAILAND)

Americas and Oceania (Wednesday, November 13th)
Ancient Americas: Maya, Inca and Aztecs -click on "Aztec, Inca, Maya" site link and then scroll down on page to see this map- and N America - this picture is huge but there are only a few terms, copy them onto the other maps you are studying -(MAYAS, INCAS, AZTECS, SIOUX, NAVAJO, APACHE, CHEROKEE, SEMINOLE, CREE)

Modern Americas: Select North America, South America, and Oceania: (CANADA, US, ALASKA, EUROPE, ASIA, MEXICO, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, CUBA, PANAMA, BRAZIL, CHILE, PERU, COLOMBIA, ARGENTINA, HAITI)

Persia and the Mediterranean (Wednesday, November 20th)
Ancient Persia (in the book this is in my Chapter 7: Persia) and the Mediterranean (in the book this is in my Chapter 10: Greece) (IBERIA, ADRIATIC SEA, MEDITERRANEAN SEA, ANATOLIA, SICILY, AEGEAN SEA, CRETE, BLACK SEA, GREECE, ARMENIA, BABYLONIA, ARABIA, CASPIAN SEA)

Modern Persia (I can't find a perfect map to study so the modern part of this test will be all bonus and will be drawn on a map like those from the Ancient test) (TURKEY, SYRIA, JORDAN, ISRAEL, LEBANON, CYPRUS, ITALY, GREECE, SPAIN, FRANCE, PORTUGAL)


FINAL EXAM and ORAL HISTORY PROJECT

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