Transcript 1a Introductionx

Introduction to
World
History
Honors
History’s Timeline
Ancient History
3500 BC
Middle Ages Modern
AD 500
1500
Essential Question
What is history?
• Greek: “asking why”
• An interpretation of
selected past events
• Era of the written past
History’s Sources
• Primary
sources
• Secondary
Sources
Documents, objects,
etc. of the time period
Documents, objects,
etc. produced later
Historical Thinking is all
about questioning the sources…
Sourcing
Who produced this
document/object? For
what audience? For what
purpose?
Context
What was happening at
the time/ what happened
in the recent past?
Corroboration
Does this document/object
support or does it call into
question evidence from
other sources?
The Middle Ages
Early
AD 500
1000
The
“Dark
Ages”
Late
High
Q:
1300
1500
What is a big
challenge for
historians’
understanding of the
Early Middle Ages?
European Revival: Main Idea
In the Early Middle Ages (500-1000),
European civilization experienced a
dramatic decline. Beginning around
the year 1000 (the beginning of the
2. Invasions
High Middle Ages, a variety of factors
End
led to the revival of Europe.
European Revival: Key Factors
1. Climate
Change
…and New
Business
Methods
2. Invasions
4. Trade
End
3. New Revives
Technology
5.
Crusades
…and
6. revival of
city life
Temperature Trends
TECHNOLOGY: Changes to European Farming
Early Middle Ages
High Middle Ages
The Alhambra Palace, Spain, Built by the Moors
Northern
Routes
Merchants and Customer in the High Middle Ages (1200s)
Routes Taken by the Crusaders
New Methods of Exchange
From
Barter to
Coins to
Bills of
Exchange
Northern Europe by the 1300s
Walled city Carcassonne, France
1. Identify
the three
social
groups
2. What
social
group
seems to
be
missing in
the early
Middle
Ages?
3. Why?
DO NOW
Social “Pyramid”
Early Middle Ages
Social “Pyramid”
High Middle Ages
SECULAR
Cathedral Schools for middle class boys
LEARNING: Universities
GDP
Early Middle Ages
A
High Middle Ages
SILK ROUTES AND SPICE ROUTES FROM ASIA
CHINA
European Revival: Main Idea
In the Early Middle Ages (500-1000),
European civilization experienced a
dramatic decline. Beginning around
the year 1000 (the beginning of the
2. Invasions
High Middle Ages, a variety of factors
End
led to the revival of Europe.