Foundations 8000 BCE – 600 CE

1. Foundations 8000 BCE – 600 CE Kai Perkins, Trisha Marroquin, David Perryman, & Melissa Wagler

2. Introduction to World History • 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

3. Mesopotamia

4. What is a civilization? • 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/three/landscape/03_landscape3.pdf (pages 6-12)

5. Gender Roles • 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

6. Diffusion of Technology: Iron & Bronze Use • “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)

7. Egypt

8. Information & Activities • 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/three/landscape/03_landscape3.pdf

9. Information & Activities • 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_landscape3.pdf

10. Indus Valley/Harappans

11. Indus Activity • Information about Daily Life in the Indus River Valley from 3000-1500 BCE • 1. Homes • 2. Clothing • 3. Entertainment • 4. Food • 5. Toys • 6. Art • 7. Transportation • http://indus.mrdonn.org/indus.html

12. Shang Dynasty/Huang He (Yellow River) China

13. Huang He River Valley Activities • 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

14. Mesoamerica & Andean South America Olmec, Mayan, & Aztec Chavin Incans

15. Chavin Society

16. Mesoamerican Information & Activities • Items of Exchange • Maps of Spheres of Interaction • http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev/units/five/landscape/05_landscape6.pdf • Contrast Mesoamerican Valley Civilizations • Not river dependant • Connected by trade • Grew corn, not grains

17. Religious Belief Systems & Activities • Belief System Chart - Buddhism - Christianity - Daoism - Hinduism - Judaism - Polytheism - Christianity - Confucianism (not on website) • http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev/eras/era4.htm • Research Chart for Qin-Han China & Review Questions (Political, Religion, & Economy) • http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev/units/four/landscape/04_landscape5.pdf

18. Religion Activities • Daoism PERSIAN Chart: • 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/general-daoism/origin& formation-of-daoism/pg1-1-3.asp

19. Information & Activities • Provides information on: • 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

20. Tidbits • 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/