Cities, Societies, and Empires

Essential Question:

How did complex societies develop and how did they impact humans inside and outside these communities?

Portrait of a Graduate:

Communication

Adaptive Perseverance

Inquiry Question:

What made life in cities and agrarian societies different from life in pastoral communities, nomadic communities, or Neolithic villages?

2. Inquiry Question:

How did life differ between various cities and agrarian societies?

Why did most complex societies develop different social classes—aristocrats, merchants, artisans, peasants, and slaves—when these categories had never existed earlier?

3. Inquiry Question:

How did the emergence of portable belief systems affect how people lived and support new types of networks among them?

Student Outcomes:

Students will be able to understand, evaluate, and analyze why certain human communities began to organize into more complex societies, states, and empires.

2. Student Outcomes:

Students will be able to compare, contrast and evaluate different societies.
Students will be able understand and critique the common characteristics of societies such as social hierarchies, specialization of labor, farming, taxes, writing, and cities.

3. Student Outcomes:

Students will be able to explain and interpret the spread of shared belief systems how these beliefs shaped the formation of societies.

Skills Demonstrated:

Reading for Content
Primary Source Analysis
Map Reading
Examine Varying Perspectives
Making Judgments and Predictions

Standards:

SS:GE:12:2.3: Describe the structure of regional systems.
SS:GE:12:4.4: Classify the functions, sizes, and spatial arrangements of urban areas.
SS:WH:12:3.2: Analyze how philosophic systems and social theories are powerful forces throughout history.
SS:WH:12:5.2: Examine the role and impact of religious ideas on daily life and social norms.

Resources:

[Our Hidden Google Drive Resource link]

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