Transcript Ancient History - BBS Social Science

UNIT 1
ANCIENT HISTORY
Chapter 1: Foundations of World History
Chapter 2: Early Civilizations
Chapter 3: The Greek Civilization
Chapter 4: The Roman Republic
Chapter 5: The Roman Empire
UNIT 1
ANCIENT HISTORY
Chapter 1: Foundations of World History
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
Chapter 1 Goals
1.1.1
1.1.2
1.1.3
1.1.4
1.2.1
1.2.2
1.2.3
1.2.4
State and defend three reasons for studying world history.
List the types of sources used by historians, indicating the value of
each.
Summarize how historians produce a historical account and suggest
how their philosophy of life affects their work.
Explain how a Christian worldview should affect the way a believer
interprets history.
Identify the major events and people in biblical history from Creation
to the rise of nations.
Define the Creation Mandate and explain its relationship to culture
and the development of civilization.
Identify the two chief effects of the Fall and explain their implications
for the flow of human history.
Show how the flow of history form the Fall to the rise of nations
reveals Genesis 3:15 as the thesis statement for human history.
WHY
SHOULD WE STUDY
WORLD HISTORY?
Brainstorm
See p. 3
1. Prepares us for the future
Follow patterns
2. Gives cultural identity
don’t fall into “cultural amnesia”
3. Declares God’s glory
see Bible as more than just a book
God is involved - see HIS greatness
WHAT
ARE THE TYPES OF SOURCES
USED BY HISTORIANS?
Primary sources - produced at time of the event
Artifacts
Tradition
Written Record
Secondary sources - used to explain or interpret primary sources
HOW
DO HISTORIANS PRODUCE
A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT?
Evaluate historical sources
Historical synthesis
Historical interpretation
In your own words explain each step.
HOW
DOES ONE’S WORLDVIEW
AFFECT THEIR HISTORICAL
WORK?
Brainstorm
BACKGROUND INFLUENCES BIAS
Secular humanist
human reason informed
Most reliable path to truth
by science
interaction of natural forces
Universe origins
VS
Christian
Bible, God’s Word
Direct act of God
Why is the universe here?
Unanswerable
TO DECLARE GOD’S
GLORY
Where is the world
headed?
interaction of natural forces will
eventually lead to catastrophic
destruction
divine judgment and
restoration
HOW SHOULD
A CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW
AFFECT THE WAY A BELIEVER INTERPRETS
HISTORY?
1. Realize God has divine control of history.
DIVINE PROVIDENCE
2. Realize that human depravity leads to poor choices within society.
human depravity – every aspect of every human’s being
(body, will, mind, and emotions) are tainted (stained) by sin.
(We inherited the gene from Adam, the first human, who chose his wife
over God.)
3. Realize that the goal of history is redemption through Christ’s love.
1.1.4 Explain how a Christian worldview should
affect the way a believer interprets history.
1. Realize God has divine control of history. There is no event that is
out of God’s control or that does not help to accomplish His purpose
for this world.
- Affects our study of history in 2 ways:
it reminds us to be historic optimists. (We do not deny that the
world is evil, but is also not out of control.)
2. It reminds us to study history with God’s will in mind.
•
Limitations of knowing God’s will in history:
1. our lack of knowledge of the past.
2. our own fallenness. (We are all sinners, therefore, what we
do know about the past we tend to interpret in selfish ways.)
3. our ignorance of God’s will.
1.
2. Realize that human depravity is the reason for the world’s
problems.
3. Realize that the goal of history is redemption through Christ’s love.
God’s redemptive love in Christ stands at the center of human history.
What is history?
Can history change?
Is there a difference between history and the past?
How do you learn history?
What makes something (a piece of writing or an
artifact) a good piece of information about the past?
What role does bias play in recording, learning, and
understanding history?
RESPOND TO THE
FOLLOWING STATEMENT:
• “It is not possible to use the study of
history to prepare for the future. Every
civilization is unique. The legitimate
parallels between our lives and the lives
of previous generations are too few and
far between.”
HOW
CAN THE BIBLE BE EXPLAINED
AS THE OLDEST HISTORY BOOK
AVAILABLE FOR US?
Traces history to times that are not clearly
recorded anywhere else.
Begins with two truths about Creation:
1. God existed when nothing else did.
2. All that exists was made by HIM.
WHAT
IS THE PURPOSE OF
MANKIND?
1. “Subdue” the earth - CREATION MANDATE Genesis 1:28
2. Advance environment through our labor.
3. Advance civilizations through specialization and
organization.
What are the 2 primary
effects of the Fall?
Man turned to self
Man’s relationship with God was
hindered
Genesis 3:15
• “And I will put enmity between thee
and the woman, and between thy
seed and her seed”
How has the flow of history
revealed Genesis 3:15 as the thesis for
human history?
seed of the woman
ABEL
Seth and descendants have long lives close in
their relationship to God
seed of the serpent
CAIN
Lamech - polygamy
Lived apart from God’s will
Seth’s descendants eventually mixed with Cain’s to produce corruption
FLOOD
Ham
Shem and Japheth
Canaanites - Tower of Babel
Hebrews
CONFUSION OF LANGUAGES
RISE OF NATIONS
form according to common language
Know Difference
between:
• Civilization
• Organization
• Specialization
• Culture
• History
• Worldview
• Divine providence
• Divine sovereignty
• Human depravity