Mr. Stenger

Period 2:  Organization and Reoganization of Human Societies, 600 BCE to 600 CE

Chapter 2- Classical China

-Chapter 2 Reading Questions

-"Must Know" Asian countries

-Crash Course:  China video clip

-How China became Chinese

-Nuts & Bolts:  Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism

-Early Chinese Beliefs
-How the Terracotta army works article

-Philosophical Traditions of China chart

-China:  Classical Civilization chart (Zhou, Qin, Han)

 

Documents

-The Way of the State:  Legalism

-Confucius, selections form the Analects

-An Essay Question from the Chinese Imperial Examination System

-Daoism: The Classic of the Way and Virtue (500s-400s BCE)

-Legalism: selections from The Writings of Han Fei

Chapter 3- Classical India

-Chapter 3 Reading Questions

-Crash Course:  India video clip

-Hinduism Presentation

-Nuts & Bolts:  Hinduism, Buddhism

-Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) bio

-Religions of India chart

-India:  Classical Civilization chart (Maurya, Gupta)

-Societal comparison of India/China chart

-Societal comparison of India/China writing description

 

Documents

-Women in Classical India

-Hindu Creation Myth and the Caste System (500 BCE, 200 CE)

Chapter 4- Classical Mediterranean and Middle East

-Chapter 4 Reading Questions

-"Must Know" European countries
-Mediterranean:  Classical Civilization chart (Greece, Hellenistic Age, Roman Republic/Empire)

-Crash Course:  Alexander the Great video clip

-Crash Course:  Persians and the Greeks

-Crash Course: Roman Republic/Empire video clip

-Rome Info graphic

-Rome:  A continuation of Greek culture

-Roman Government during the Republic chart

-Roman Republic checks and balances

-Roman Government web quest

-Ancient Roman and Greek Architecture in America example

 

Documents

-Aristotle on Slavery

-Aristotle, The Creation of the Democracy in Athens

-Darius the Great: Ruler of Persia 522 BCE

-Descriptions of Alexandria, Egypt (1st c. CE) Arrian and Strabo

-Maccabees: Resistance to Hellenization in the Hellenistic Period, c. 100 BCE

-Plutarch on Alexander the Great (1st c. BCE)

-Plutarch on Life in Sparta (1st c. BCE)

-Slaves in Roman Law 5th c. CE

-Thucydides on Athens (5th c. BCE)

Chapter 5- The Classical Civilizations Decline

-Chapter 5 Reading Questions

-Crash Course: Fall of the Roman Empire video clip

-Crash Course: Christianity to Judaism to Constantine video clip

-Nuts & Bolts:  Christianity, Judaism

-Silk Road exchange reading

-Rome/Han decline comparison

-Ch. 2-5 Test Review

 

Documents

-Huns & Goths (376) Ammianus Marcellinus

-Ammianus Marcellinus on the Huns