HIST 1111 World History to 1500 Ms. Lucas

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HIST 1111World History to 1500Ms. Lucas
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Notecards

• Name
• E-mail address
• Place of birth
• Special needs

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General Suggestions

• Turn off the cell phone!!!
• Ask questions
• Take control of your own education
• Think for yourself!
• If you cheat, you fail.
• I will NOT give you my notes.

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Whats one thing you think the class should know
about you?

• Bridget, Logan Daisy

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• Suggested textbook reading for this week and
  next
• p. xxx--35

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Terms you MUST know

• 100,000 y.a. years ago
• c. 5000 BCE before the common era circa
• 509 BC before Christ
• 1500 CE common era
• 1500 AD anno domini
• Alexander of Macedon (r. 336-323) reign
• Primary Source / Secondary Source

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Questions and Cautions in History

• So what???
• Everything is biased in some waynot necessarily
  on purpose.
• Whose definition of a term are we using?
• Looking backwards with modern perceptions.applyin
  g terms to non-existent ideas in history.
• Learning scholarly information about past events
  has nothing to do with your personal belief
  system.

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• Themes for World History
• Technology
• Environment
• Culture
• Interaction
• Transitions from Foraging to Civilization
• Hunting and Foraging
• Agriculture
• Complex Society

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The Big Bang

• 14 Billion years ago
• Creation of our universe
• Earth probably 6 billion years ago

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Breakup of Pangaea

• 250-180 million y.a.

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Asteroid Collision with Earth

• 65,000,000 y.a.
• Climatic Change
• Forests deserts
• Death 70 of life on Earth
• Including dinosaurs