FOUNDATIONS

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FOUNDATIONS

• 8000 BCE 600 CE

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Locating World History in the Environment and Time

• Environment-interaction of geography and climate
  with the development of societies
• River Valley Chart
• Importance (Nature) of Neolithic Revolution Notes
• Climate change, domestication of plants and
  animals
• Economic and Social results of Neolithic Rev
• Major population changes resulting from human and
  environmental factors

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Developing Agriculture and Technology

• Agricultural, pastoral and foraging societies and
  their demographic characteristics
• Africa, America, South East Asia Examples
• Nomad and Pastoralist Notes
• Africa Bantu
• America
• Emergence of Ag and Tech change (tools)
• Nature of Village society vs. Complex Societies
• Catal Huyuk and Jericho (lack political
  organization, size)
• Key stages of Metal Use Bronze Mesopotamia and
  Indus Iron Hittites and Bantu (tools and
  weapons)
• Compare societies and cultures that include
  cities with pastoral and nomadic societies.
  (River valleys compared to Indo-Europeans or
  Bantu)

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Demographic Changes Due to Environmental Factors

• Complex societies
• Bantu, Indo-Europeans, Huns, Goths
• Disease
• Time
• Changes
• Neolithic Revolution domestication, farm tools,
  ore
• Collapse of Societies
• Continuities
• Migration, war, trade

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Characteristics of Civilization

• River Valley Chart (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus,
  Shang)
• Compare the Caste system to other systems of
  social inequality devised by early and classical
  civilizations including slavery (Confucianism)
• Compare the political and social structures of
  two early civilizations, using any two of the
  following Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley,
  Shang dynasty, and Mesoamerica and Andean South
  America
• Nature of Patriarchal Systems

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Classical Civilizations

• SPECS plus Greece (Snapshot)
• Major Political Developments in China, India and
  the Mediterranean. (Mandate of Heaven, Hindu and
  Buddhist kingdoms unite India, Oligarchy,
  democracy, republic, tyranny)
• Political Heritage of Classical China Emperor
  and Bureaucracy
• Compare the development of traditions and
  institutions in major civilizations like India,
  China and Greece. (based on religion, philosophy,
  isolation, democracy and population)
• Social and Gender Structures
• Major trade patterns (Mental Map)
• Art, Science and Technology (Greco-Roman art,
  Indian science, Chinese technology)
• Greek approach to science and Philosophy,
  Aristotle but no other philosophers.

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Major Belief Systems

• Basic features of belief systems (Religion Chart)
• Polytheism Hellenic/Hellenistic/America/Africa
• Hinduism
• Judaism
• Confucianism
• Daoism
• Buddhism
• Christianity
• Major Comparison Compare the major religious and
  philosophical systems including similarities in
  cementing social hierarchy, e.g. Hinduism
  contrasted with Confucianism.
• Role of women in different belief systems
  (convents)
• Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Confucianism

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Late Classical Period (200-600 c.e)

• Understand how and why the collapse of empire was
  more sever in western Europe than it was in the
  eastern Mediterranean or in China
• Movement of People
• Huns and Germans
• Interregional Networks, trade and religion
• Zoroastrians, Manichaeism, spread of religions
  (see power point)
• Diffusion of Religions, but not specific forms.
• Describe interregional trading systems like the
  Indian Ocean trade (Major Comparison)

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Diverse Interpretations

• Issues involved in using Civilization (See
  Sterns reprint)
• What is the most common source of change
  connection or diffusion vs. independent
  invention?
• Mental map

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REMEMBER!

• The exchange of goods ideas shaped this period
  and led to further change throughout the world
  Silk Road, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea
• Discovery of agriculture changes lives at a rapid
  pace
• Emergence of gender roles reinforced by
  government religion

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• Major world religions emerged influenced large
  numbers of people (Hinduism Buddhism,
  Confucianism, Daoism in Asia Christianity
  Judaism in Europe and Asia)
• Emerging civilizations grew into larger and more
  complicated organizations such as empires Rome,
  Han, Gupta