Transcript 8000 BCE – 600 CE

Foundations
8000 BCE – 600 CE
Kai Perkins, Trisha Marroquin,
David Perryman, & Melissa Wagler
Introduction to World History
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History of the World in Seven Minutes
http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev
/default.html
Population Growth in Time Periods
http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev
/themes/keytheme1.htm
Mesopotamia
What is a civilization?
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Students will read a secondary source about
“civilizations” that emerged in the river valley of
Afroeurasia and then discuss questions that are
given.
The source discusses food resources, human
impact on the environment, and human
relations.
In Mesopotamia, people became specialized in
their trade, women’s social roles were defined,
writing emerged for record keeping, and
architecture is also discussed.
http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev/units/thr
ee/landscape/03_landscape3.pdf (pages 6-12)
Gender Roles
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Lesson: “Ancient Tablets, Ancient Graves: Accessing
Women’s Lives in Mesopotamia”
 Students will read from cuneiform tablets and artifacts
about women’s roles, treatment, power, etc. in
Mesopotamia.
 Students will be locating specific places in the sources
where women’s roles, treatment, power, etc. are
revealed.
 This is a good activity to “ease” students into reading
primary sources because they are fairly short.
http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson2.html
This lesson can be used in conjunction with Reilly’s
comparative reader – Worlds of History, pages 1-26
Diffusion of Technology: Iron &
Bronze Use
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“Metallurgy: Iron”
Students will be grouped to read a source
on the development of iron and compare the
diffusion of older technology (Iron/Bronze)
with that of newer technology (cell
phones/internet).
http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev/units
/four/landscape/04_landscape1.pdf (pages
9-13)
Egypt
Information & Activities
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Life of Ancient Egypt students can use the
hieroglyphic alphabet to write a letter.
This will teach students how difficult it was to
write a letter or document an event that has
occurred.
http://www.watson.org/~leigh/egypt.html#intro
World history and math assignment for teachers
that have to be on a team with other subjects.
(A Selection of Math Problems (About 1850
BCE)
http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev/units/thr
ee/landscape/03_landscape3.pdf
Information & Activities
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Mummification of Egypt people and animals. Compare and Contrast
the embalming of ancient Egypt to current embalming methods.
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/mummies/home.html
Medicine in Ancient Egypt from the beginning of the scholarly study
of Egypt's past there have been few scholars who recognized the
importance of the process of disease and health on a population.
With the turn of the century, new archaeological discoveries,
increased knowledge of Egyptian language and writing, and the
advent of more sophisticated medical techniques, new life was
breathed into the study of disease and health in the ancient Nile
Valley. It was this period that saw the academic study of Egyptian
disease segregated into three distinct categories.
http://www.indiana.edu/~ancmed/intro.HTM
Lesson from primary source document: Praise for Pharaoh’s New
City (About 1300 BCE)
http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev/units/three/landscape/03_la
ndscape3.pdf
Indus Valley/Harappans
Indus Activity
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Information about Daily Life in the Indus
River Valley from 3000-1500 BCE
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1. Homes
2. Clothing
3. Entertainment
4. Food
5. Toys
6. Art
7. Transportation
http://indus.mrdonn.org/indus.html
Shang Dynasty/Huang He
(Yellow River) China
Huang He River Valley
Activities
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Action Cards for Role-Playing Tomb Construction
in Ancient China (Assign Roles to Students)
 1. Peasant Workers
 2. Artisans
 3. Human Sacrificial Victims
 4. Guards & Executioners
 5. Supervisors & Government Officials
 6. Noble Relatives of the dead person
Read a short play & answer review Questions
http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev/units/four/
landscape/04_landscape2.pdf
Mesoamerica & Andean South
America
Olmec, Mayan,
& Aztec
Chavin
Incans
Chavin Society
Mesoamerican Information &
Activities
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Items of Exchange
Maps of Spheres of Interaction
http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev/units
/five/landscape/05_landscape6.pdf
Contrast Mesoamerican Valley Civilizations
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Not river dependant
Connected by trade
Grew corn, not grains
Religious Belief Systems &
Activities
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Belief System Chart
- Buddhism
- Hinduism
- Christianity
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- Christianity
- Judaism
- Confucianism
- Daoism
- Polytheism
(not on website)
http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev/eras/era
4.htm
Research Chart for Qin-Han China & Review
Questions (Political, Religion, & Economy)
http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev/units/fo
ur/landscape/04_landscape5.pdf
Religion Activities
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Daoism PERSIAN Chart:
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1. Heaven Worship
2. Ancestor Worship
3. Belief in Spirits
4. Ancient Shamanism (Animism)
5. School of Esoteric Speculations
6. Daoist Scriptures
7. Religious Activities & Rituals
http://www.eng.taoism.org.hk/generaldaoism/origin& formation-of-daoism/pg1-13.asp
Information & Activities
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Provides information on:
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1. Empire in China
2. Roman Empire
3. Gupta Empire in India
Map to locate where empires are on a world
map
“Poem of Mulan”
Graphic Organizer for Han China & The
Mandate of Heaven
http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev/units
/five/landscape/05_landscape1.pdf
Tidbits
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Example of a final exam AP World History
Study Guide
http://www.zcs.k12.in.us/individual/anderson
/AP%20World%20History/Final%20Study%
20Guide%20Semester%20One.htm
Essay on comparison of foods. It contains
all the foods and the dates of when they
were introduced and details about each.
http://www.foodtimeline.org/