Block #3-8th World History II 

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Welcome to Mr. Kightlinger's Class webpage. Important information about each chapter will be found on this page.

8th Grade Classes

Ch#18 Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia  (Terms Go Into The Vocabulary Book)

Picture for 2 of the words

shamanism

archipelago

animism

constitution

samurai

shogun

vassal

feudalism

guild

sect

martial arts

meditation

volcano

tsunami

maritime

Ch#17 Imperial China (Terms go in your Vocabulary Book)

• terror

• barbarian

• calligraphy

• neo-confucianism

• porcelain

• census

• novel

• steppe  

Ch#10 Early China   (These terms go in your Vocabulary Book)

• warlord

• aristocrat

• ancestor

• pictograph

• ideograph

• bureaucracy

• hereditary

• Mandate of Heaven

• Dao

• Confucianism 

• Daoism

• legalism

• filial piety

• censor 

• currency 

• civil service

• tenant farmer

• acupuncture 

Ch#16 The Americas Terms  (These terms go in your Vocabulary book with a picture!)

• isthmus

• maize

• sinkhole

• hogan

• adobe

Ch #2 Terms for Vocab Book   (Open the text and use the glossary at the top, middle tab)

• hemisphere

• latitude

• longitude

• projection

• physical map

• political map

• special-purpose map

• scale

• cardinal directions

• choropleth

• migration

• culture

• Equator

• Prime Meridian