QR Challenge: Final - Medieval World History

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.

2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.

2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.

3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. What is Muslim place of worship called?	Mosque
2. The environment of the Arabian Peninsula is hard to live in because	it is dry with very little water
3. What are the Five pillars of Islam?	Declaration of faith, prayer 5x, alms, fasting, hajj
4. Which empire, the Eastern Roman or Western Roman was more affected by the barbarian tribes?	Western
5. The capital city of the Byzantine Empire was	Constantinople
6. A schism due to differing religious traditions developed between the	East and West Churches
7. What immense geographic feature did traders have to overcome in order to send gold from West Africa to markets along the Mediterranean?	Sahara Desert
8. The trade good most in demand by the people of Ghana was	salt
9. What was the main job of griots in West Africa?	Storyteller
10. What river did West Africans settle on?	Niger
11. This Mali ruler traveled with many people, and gave away gold while on his hajj?	Mansa Musa
12. Less than 20 percent of Japan's land can be used fro farming because it is so	mountainous
13. Under the code of Bushido, to whom did a samurai owe the greatest loyalty	His lord
14. Leading monks in medieval Europe founded communities devoted to prayer and lived in	monasteries
15. What was Christendom?	Community of Christians across Europe
16. Why did feudalism develop in Europe?	Because governments were unable to protect people from invaders, local nobles took over this task.
17. Which group of invaders raided and plundered Europe in the 800s?	Vikings
18. Europe's feudal system depended on an exchange of __________ for __________.	Land for loyalty
19. Rebellious English barons forced King John to agree and approve the ____________ in 1215.	Magna Carta
20. Why did the Inquisition punish heretics?	Heretics might persuade people to leave the Church.
21. How did the Black Death contribute to the breakdown of Medieval Society?	People questioned the Church and their place in society
22. Non-church or non-religious	secular
23. What is one positive outcome of the Crusades for Europe?	increased trade and exploration
24. Why was the 4th Crusade a disgrace for Europe?	sack of Constantinople
25. One of Florence's most powerful families that patronized the arts for generations was the __________ family.	Medici
26. What was the Renaissance?	a great cultural revival that swept through Europe between the 1300s and 1500s
27. mathematical system for representing three-dimensional space on a flat surface?	linear perspective
28. the everyday spoken language of the people?	vernacular
29. Why the Renaissance began in Italy?	location, trade & commerce, feudal not strong
30. Two developments that helped promote the spread of humanist ideas were the __________________________ and ________________________. Choose two answers.	advances in printing and increase in literacy
31. What did Thomas More write and why?	Utopia; criticized society, church, govt.
32. Shakespeare's plays are still popular today because	his characters behave the way people still do today
33. Why is Leonardo called the Renaissance Man?	He was knowledgeable in many different studies
34. _________________________often called the person who launched the Reformation.	Martin Luther
35. Luther posted a list of arguments called the ___________________________, which challenged the Church's authority.	95 Theses
36. Luther and Calvin both said that good deeds were not necessary in order to gain salvation because only this was needed	faith
37. pardon for sins?	indulgences
38. He translated the new Testament of the Bible into English.	William Tyndale
39. __________ discovered the law of gravity that explained the force that pulls one object towards another.	Newton
40. Europeans carried ___________________ to and from the West, which had a deadly effect on the population.	disease
41. He was the commander of the first fleet to sail around the world.	Magellan
42. He was the first European to sail around Africa to India and back to Europe.	Vaso da Gama
43. To sail completely around the world.	circumnavigate

 

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