Unit TWO L:
Classical Civilizations in World History
Expanding Zones of Exchange and Encounter
(600BC - 600 AD)
The period between 600BC - 600 AD is marked by population growth with the rise and fall of great empires (Greece, Rome, Persia, India, Maurya, Israel, Gupta, China. The ideas of Chinese philosophers ( Zhou, Qin, Han) and the beliefs of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism and Christianity extended beyond their places of origin. It is a time that shaped all subsequent periods. In this unit, students are asked to investigate the meaning and characteristics of culture. They discover the enduring interplay between agrarian civilizations and nomadic cultures. Students are also introduced to human and physical geography and the extent to which humans can control their environment.
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Essential Questions
1. How will Social Studies Skills impact your ability to analyze significant people, events, and issues through out History?
2. How do the movements of people and ideas (cultural diffusion) affect world history?
3. How does technological change affect people, places, and regions?
4. What defines a turning point?
5. To what extent is life a constant struggle between continuity and change?
6. How does art, architecture, literature, music, and drama reflect the history of cultures in which they are produced?
7. Which one of the classical civilizations had the most significant impact on math, science, and technology?
8. How does geography impact the development of legal and trade systems?
9. What are the origins, development, and impact of legal systems.
10. How do political and/or religious decisions impact each other?
11. What impact can a single individual have on society?
1. How will Social Studies Skills impact your ability to analyze significant people, events, and issues through out History?
2. How do the movements of people and ideas (cultural diffusion) affect world history?
3. How does technological change affect people, places, and regions?
4. What defines a turning point?
5. To what extent is life a constant struggle between continuity and change?
6. How does art, architecture, literature, music, and drama reflect the history of cultures in which they are produced?
7. Which one of the classical civilizations had the most significant impact on math, science, and technology?
8. How does geography impact the development of legal and trade systems?
9. What are the origins, development, and impact of legal systems.
10. How do political and/or religious decisions impact each other?
11. What impact can a single individual have on society?
Focus Questions
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Vocabulary
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Greece Persia Phalanx Polis Acropolis Satrap Royal Road Oligarchy Autocracy Direct Democracy Etruscans Republic Carthaginians senate Hannibal Patrician Consul Dictator Plebeian Tribune Veto Legion Imperialism triumvirate absolute ruler Pax Romana gladiator Latifundia Tiberius Gracchus Gaius Gracchus Julius Caesar Augustus Octavian census engineering aqueduct cletian inflation Ptolemy Messiah Jesus Christianity Apostle Paul Martyr Constantine Clergy Bishop Pope heresy Diocletian inflation Constantinople Byzantine Empire Huns mercenary Attila Greco - Roman Popeii Virgil Tacitus Colosseum |