History: The Ultimate Soap Opera

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HistoryThe Ultimate Soap Opera

• As the sands through the hourglassso go the
  Days of Our Lives

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History
History

• His story ( or herstory if you want)
• Must be true (or as close as possible)
• Myths, embellishments, P.O.V., biases,
  perceptions, start to distort the truth.
• Passing down history word of mouth is the
  telephone game syndrome.

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Post-Historic

• Pre-historic is pre-writing.
• Sumerians invented history with the pictograph.
• Egyptians had hieroglyphics.

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Sumerian Pictographs
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Judgment 1420 BC
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Petroglyphs
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Biases

• History as told by the winners.
• It is slanted.
• Mostly male historians.
• Mostly white and European.
• Make-up History
• Scout you must walk a mile in the other persons
  shoes. Atticus Finch

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Revisionist History

• Reevaluation of past evens using new knowledge
  and thoughts.

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The words we historians will use (called
conventions)

• age, era, period, times, revolution, movement,
  and other titles.
• For example Middle Ages, Medieval Times,
  Antebellum, Gilded Age, Victorian, Elizabethan,
  Progressive Movement, Civil Rights Movement,
  Industrial Revolution, Information Revolution,
  World War
• Who gives these titles? Usually reporters or
  humorists like Mark Twain or Stephen Colbert

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Queen Elizabeth I
Elizabethan
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Q E II
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AD, BC, CE, and BCE

• Ano Domini Year of Our Lord or the time since
  Jesus birth.
• B.C. Before Christ
• AD also Common Era
• B.C. also Before Common Era

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Question

• Alexander the Great was Born in 356 and died in
  323how can this be?

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Fact vs. Fiction

• Homer
• The Troy story
• Atlantis
• Other Myths (or are they?)

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When studying history we need to try to see
through Ancient Eyes
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Are we really all that different from those in
the past?

• If we do evolve, we havent got very far.
• We have changed a little according to some and a
  lot according to others
• change is relative.

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Triad statue of the Pharaoh Menkaure. He is shown
standing between the godess Hathor and a
personification of one of the "nomes" or regions
of Egypt.
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Thats Ancient History Daddy-O.

• Every generation has a different view /
  perception of the past. What will your kids say
  about you and your life?

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HV- CSIBody Language of the Dead

• Mr. Burgess We can also learn from the dead.
• Bill-Joe-Bob But aren't they just bones now?

I want my mummy
People of the past have been preserved, a lot
like food

• Its Freezing in here!
• Getting bogged down.
• Dried out (the prune fx)

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Above A well preserved body from the
pre-dynastic period in Egypt, circa 3,300 BC.
Buried in a sand grave, the natural dryness of
the surroundings kept the body preserved. His red
hair (and thus Nordic features) have been so well
preserved that he has been given the nickname
"Ginger" at the British Museum where he is kept
on public display. Right "Ginger's" head.
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Pharaoh Ramesses II
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History and virtue

• Hero vs. Traitors

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Does it get a senior discount?

• The world looks pretty good for its age.. 6
  B-B-Billion years old, at least that is the
  estimate of scientists.

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• Homo Erectus human, upright appears about 1
  million years ago.
• Homo Sapiens human, wise 40,000 years ago
  transition into Homo Sapiens Sapiens humans
  double wise or the modern version.

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4 million Years ago.
40,000 Years Ago
4,000 Years Ago
4 Years ago.
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Neanderthal Man

• During the Ice Age.
• Nomadic, hunters, gathers.
• Came long after dinosaurs.

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Building the First Civilizations
What does man need to transition into being
civilized?
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civilized

• Having a highly developed society and culture.
• Showing evidence of moral and intellectual
  advancement humane, ethical, and reasonable
  terrorist acts that shocked the civilized
  world.
• Marked by refinement in taste and manners
  cultured polished.

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Language knowledge

• Language was an important change in human
  history. Communication was key to advancing
  knowledge and culture.
• First language communicated anger, fear, love,
• Thanks to communication, information masses.
  Everyone benefits from knowledge.
• Record of events.

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First Civilizations Grew Near Rivers

• Man need water. Water water
• Man needs food. Water food.
• Water transportation.
• Water protection.

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Nomadic to Farmers

• Domesticated animals.
• Crops.
• Tools.
• No specialized labor yet.

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Mesopotamia

• The twin Rivers Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
• Fertile Crescent

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Living in De Nile

• Egyptian Civilization started on the Nile River.

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Building Walls

• Provided mutual protection from many different
  threats.
• Marks where civilization were.

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Thats it for now