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Unit Goals:
- Students will be able to explain how the Agricultural Revolution had animpacton the development of civilizationsStudents will identify the features of a civilization and cite examples from Bronze Age civilizations, including Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley Civilization, the Yellow River Civilization, the Aegeans (Minoan and Mycenaean), and the Olmec civilization of Mesoamerica
- Students will explain the role of geography in the development of Bronze Age civilizations
- Students will compare and contrast the unique political, economic, religious, social, technological, and cultural contributions of classical civilizations
- Students will analyze the aspects of the Roman empire that set the standard for later European empires
- Students will analyze the impact of the Silk Road
- Students will analyze the impact of the Mongol empire in uniting Asia and eastern Europe
- Students will explain how trade contributes to cultural diffusion
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Unit Quotes
"The main foundations of every state... are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow." -Niccolo Machiavelli
"Empires are like Ponzi schemes... [They] must continue to expand if they are not to collapse" - Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon
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