Period 2: Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies, c. 600 B.C.E. to c. 600 C.E.

Key-Concept Preview:

Crash Course Videos:

Chapter 7 & 10 Persia/Greece:

Chapter 8 Classical China

Chapter 9 South Asian Belief Systems:

Chapter 10 Alexander the Great & the Hellenistic Empire:

Chapter 11 Rome:

Chapter 12 The Silk Road, Christianity, & the Fall of Empires

Engineering an Empire:

Persia Blog Video Clips:

(CAUTION: Extreme Bias and Ethnocentrism present in Trailers)

Aspects of Classical Chinese Culture ("Mulan"):

Can you identify examples of:

-Ancestor Veneration

-Filial Piety

-Patriarchal Society

-Confucianism

-Conflicts between nomadic and civilized groups

Note: The Movie has a strong bias against the Huns (Xiongnu)

The Story of India: