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Professor CHEUNG Hok-ming Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

How to build students’ global perspectives through junior secondary History curriculum (2): Ancient and Medieval Europe (New) The Impact of the Ancient World on Our Daily Life. Professor CHEUNG Hok-ming Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. CDI020121467 18.10.2012.

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Professor CHEUNG Hok-ming Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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  1. How to build students’ global perspectives through junior secondary History curriculum (2): Ancient and Medieval Europe (New)The Impact of the Ancient World on Our Daily Life Professor CHEUNG Hok-ming Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong CDI020121467 18.10.2012

  2. The Impact of the Ancient World on Our Daily Life Mesopotamia: The Epic of Gilgamesh (hero, hero-worship, flood & monsters) Mathematics: fraction Lunar calendar Ziggurat (architecture)

  3. Egypt: • Resurrection (vegetation cycle) [Osiris and Isis] • Pyramid (architecture) • Mummification (medical science) • Surgery • Numbers • Astrology

  4. Ancient Greek mythology (and Tragedies) to drama, calendar, medical and psychological terms • Dramatic effect in the plotting • Some names of the months • Medical terms, such as Achilles heel/tendon

  5. Psychological terms, such as Oedipal Complex, tantalizing, Narcissist, … • + soccer teams, brands of sports wear, … • Ancient Greek mythology and Aesop’s Fables on management • Cf. Fred’s EMBA talk • *Golden Apple – power, wealth, and love* • The Wooden Horse (strategy) • The Odyssey (mentor, too proud, …)

  6. Aesop’s Fables: • Some proverbs; • A bird in hand is worth two in the bush • Sour grapes • Crying Wolf too often • Look before you leap • Slowly but surely • A friend in need is a friend indeed*

  7. + The Deer and the Lion* • + The Farmer and His Sons (United we stand, Divided we fall) • (Ancient Greek psychology) • Ancient Greek philosophy [the love of wisdom] (modern = footnotes of Plato*) • Ancient Greek geometry (Euclid, Father of Geometry; Pythagoras Theorem) • Ancient Greek physics (Archimedes’ Principle: Density = Mass/Volume, thus, floating of a ship)

  8. Alexander the Great (from polis to cosmopolitan) • Satrapy in governing • Hannibal (strategy in warfare) • Julius Caesar (dictatus) • Senate, Senator (Roman Republic, U.S.A.) • Augustus Caesar (imperator)[Emperor] • Roman Empire • Christianity (+ Greco-Roman “Classical”) • [+ Germanic = Birth of Europe] • The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire

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