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Day Seven

Day Seven . Test Review – Start Classical Period. First Ten. We have a Pep Rally today. Pick up test Review results Ask questions ! Will grade essays over weekend  FUN! . Hook - Areas for improvement…. Total AP Average – 84% 2A – Class Average – 83% #2, 8, 21, 22, 23, 30

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Day Seven

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  1. Day Seven Test Review – Start Classical Period

  2. First Ten • We have a Pep Rally today. • Pick up test • Review results • Ask questions! • Will grade essays over weekend  FUN!

  3. Hook - Areas for improvement… • Total AP Average – 84% • 2A – Class Average – 83% • #2, 8, 21, 22, 23, 30 • 3A – Class Average – 81% • #4, 16, 19, 30 • 2B – Class Average – 90% • #4, 6, 22, 30 • 3B – Class Average – 83% • #2, 8, 16, 21, 22, 30

  4. Hook • Test corrections will be allowed. You must come in during tutoring hours (Monday 3:30-4:15 or Wednesday 7:15-8:00). You will receive ¼ point back for each correct answer. You must use my format for test corrections. • Unit 2 Standards – Read and discuss prior knowledge

  5. Work Session • PowerPoint • Conrad-Demarst Model Reading and discussion • Bentley Article – Outline due next class.

  6. Civilizations through the Classical Period First Wave—River Valley Second Wave—Roman, Persian, Indian, Chinese Third Wave—Arab, Mongol and Inca

  7. River Valley Civilizations v. Classical Civilizations

  8. Continuities • Monarchs continued to rule most of the new civilizations • Men continued to dominate women – patriarchy • A sharp divide between the elite and everyone else persisted almost everywhere as did the practice of slavery – social hierarchy • No technological breakthrough such as the Neolithic Revolution occurred as landowning elites had little incentive to innovate, for they benefited enormously from taking the surplus that the peasant farmers produced • Nor would peasant farmers have any reason to invest effort in creating new forms of production when they knew full well that any gains they might generate would be seized by their social superiors. • Merchants, who were often the risk takers, might have encouraged innovations but they were dominated by powerful states and were viewed with suspicion and condescension by the more prestigious social groups.

  9. Changes • Population grew • Growing size of states or empires that structured civilizations dwarfed the city-states of Mesopotamia • Rise and fall of empires represented changes to the people who experienced them • Great philosophical and religious systems emerged • China was source of technological change which flowed to the West • Bellows, silk-handling machinery, wheelbarrow, better harness for draft animals, crossbow, iron casting, gunpowder, magnetic compass, paper, printer, porcelain • India pioneered the crystallization of sugar and techniques for manufacturing of cotton textiles • Roman achievements in construction and engineering as well as glass-blowing • More dense and widespread networks of communication and exchange connected many of the world’s people • Long-distance trade routes represented trans-regional interaction exchanged goods as well as ideas [religion], and diseases

  10. Forced Migration of Jews Created Diaspora Communities

  11. Exchanges • Exchanges as a Theme in World History • Significance • When is it significant enough to study? • When it is new. • When it affects large numbers of people and places • When it changes the history of the world.

  12. Exchanges • When does it occur in world history? • since the beginning of time • Intensifies when the following historical factors occur • encouraging governments • technological improvements • prosperity that elevates supply and demand • improving mechanisms of exchange

  13. Exchange • Kinds of exchange • goods and technology • culture and thought • Disease • Biota (flora and fauna) • people

  14. Exchange • Agents of Exchange • Merchants • Missionaries • Adventurers and explorers • Government missions • War • Migrations

  15. Exchange • Geography of exchange • Overland • Maritime • Air • direct and intermediary • location-the city or town

  16. Exchange in the Classical Age500 BCE-500 CE • Prevalent in the Classical Age due to supportive centralized governments and empire

  17. -Greek Aegean trade networks

  18. Roman roads and Mediterranean networks

  19. Mauryan and Gupta routes

  20. Maya-Olmec-Teotihuacan networks

  21. Austronesian

  22. Bantu Migrations

  23. Silk Roads • The Silk Road • Prologue--trade networks of Hellenistic Age • Seleucid rulers of Persia and Bactria—land routes from Indian markets to ports in Syria and Palestine/ spread of Greek culture • Ptolemy’s land routes from Egypt to Nubia and Meroe and sea lanes in the Red Sea/knowledge of monsoon wind patterns

  24. The Silk Road Overland and Maritime

  25. East to West Silk Spices West to East Horses Olive oil Manufactured goods Gold and silver Items of Exchange

  26. Significance • Improved technology • Increased wealth and power • Rise of cities and towns • Spread of Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Manichaeism • Spread of disease [small pox, measles, bubonic plague leads to decrease in population of Han and Rome by 1/4-1/3

  27. Last Ten • Reading Assignment – How to! • Pg 47 – Teachings of the Rival Chinese Schools • Bentley Article Outline

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