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Foundations concepts:
Foundations concepts:
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Foundations Part 5:
Empires Emerge
Foundations Part 6:
Interregional Exchange
History Skills I should be familiar with:
History Skills I should be familiar with:
SPICE Tea is an acronym we use to help us remember the 6 historical perspectives necessary to examine historical events. Click the "Historical Perspectives" icon to the left to see an overview of the 6 perspectives.
HIPP: (click here for more)
Historical Context
Intended Audience
Purpose
Point of View (Why)
What are primary and secondary sources? (click here for more)
Essential Questions:
Why did humans change from hunters and gatherers to farmers?
How does this concept represent “technology” and “human environmental interaction”?
How do we know that this happened? What is the evidence?
How did hunter gatherers spend most of their time and energy?
How did agricultural practices provide a change in lifestyle?
How did agriculture give advantages to human lifestyles?
How did agriculture give disadvantages to human lifestyles?
Why did living in settlements allow humans to begin specializing in jobs?
How did living in settlements have an effect on the size of the overall population?
How did the locations of early settlements affect agriculture?
Where were the earliest cities and civilizations located, and why were they located on rivers?
What were the early river valley civilizations called and why, and what were the characteristics of the various river valley civilizations?
Why is the Fertile Crescent named so?
How did early cities develop?
How did climate and river flooding affect the valley civilizations of the Tigris and Euphrates and the Nile River?
How do the early river valley civilizations represent “human environmental interaction”?
How are all of the river valley civilizations similar?
Why are the civilizations along the Nile River and the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers similar?
How are the Nile River civilizations and the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers civilizations different?
How do the river valley civilizations represent “social” characteristics, “political” characteristics, “economic” characteristics, and “cultural” characteristics?
Where does Buddhism originate?
How does Buddhism affect the rule of Ashoka?
How does Buddhism begin to spread to other parts of Asia?
Why does Buddhism begin to leave India?
What religion should be associated with a stupa?
How is Hinduism a polytheistic religion?
How are Buddhism and Hinduism the same?
How are the two religions different?
Why are they similar?
Where does Confucianism originate?
What are the major tenets of Confucianism and Daoism?
How are Confucianism and Daoism similar and different?
How do these two religions begin to affect the political rule of China?
Big Geography
Civilizations:
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Indus
China
Olmec
Geographic Features:
Huang He River
Yangtze River
Nile River
Indus River
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Perspectives
social perspective
political perspective
interaction between humans/environment perspective
cultural perspective
economic perspective
technological perspective
Neolithic Revolution
hunter gatherer
nomadic
settled agriculture
Paleolithic
Neolithic
Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution
civilization
Early Agricultural and Pastoral Societies
pastoral
river valley civilizations
job specialization
religion
New Religious Traditions
Buddhism
Hinduism
Confucianism
Daoism
Ashoka
Maurya
stupa
Reincarnation
Karma
Vedas
Brahma
Shiva
Vishnu
Devi
Siddhartha Gautama
Enlightenment
Nirvana
Stupa
The Four Noble Truths
Asoka (Ashoka)
Maurya Empire
Gupta Empire
Religious toleration
Buddhism
Mahayana
Theravada
Caste system
Untouchables
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