Part 2 - The Classical Era in World History, 500 B.C.E. - 500 C.E.
Chapter 4—Eurasian Empires, 500 B.C.E.–500 C.E.
Week at a Glance:
Monday: Greeks & Persians and Alexander the ???
Tuesday: Rome vs Han China
Wednesday: Primary Source Exploration
Thursday: Review
Friday: Test Chapter 4- Eurasian Empires
Learning Targets:
- Consider the nature of imperial systems in the classical era
- Explore why empires developed in some regions but not others
- Explain the important similarities and differences between imperial systems and the reasons behind them
- What common features can you identify in the empires described in this chapter?
- In what ways did these empires differ from one another? What accounts for those differences?
- How did Persian and Greek civilizations differ in their political organization and values?
- Why did semidemocratic governments emerge in some of the Greek city-states?
- What were the consequences for both sides of the encounter between the Persians and the Greeks?
- What changes did Alexander's conquests bring in their wake?
- How did Rome grow from a single city to the center of a huge empire?
- How and why did the making of the Chinese empire differ from that of the Roman Empire?
- In comparing the Roman and Chinese Empires, which do you find more striking- their similarities or differences?
- how did the collapse of empire play out differently in the Roman world and in China?
- Why were centralized empires so much less prominent in India than in China?
Monday, September 7th, 2013
Quote of the Day: What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
-Pericles 
Agenda:
1. Do Now Question: What common features can you identify in the empires described in this chapter?
Tuesday, September 10th, 2013
Quote of the Day:
"Veni, vidi, vici." - "I came, I saw, I conquered". It seems a bit like bragging, spoken by Gaius Julius Caesar
"Nos morituri te salutant!" - "We, who are about to die, salute you". Used by gladiators about to enter battle when speaking to the Roman emperor.
"Veni, vidi, vici." - "I came, I saw, I conquered". It seems a bit like bragging, spoken by Gaius Julius Caesar
"Nos morituri te salutant!" - "We, who are about to die, salute you". Used by gladiators about to enter battle when speaking to the Roman emperor.
Agenda:
1. Do Now Question: How did Rome grow from a single city to the center of a huge empire?
3. Group activity-
Making of the empire/Similarities/Differences/Collapse
-Vocabulary use...
- Caesar Augustus
- Han Dynasty
- Mandate of Heaven
- patricians
- pax romana
- plebeians
- Punic Wars
- Qin Dynasty
- Qin Shihuangdi
- Wudi
- Xiongnu
- Yellow Turban Rebellion
Wednesday, September 11th, 2013
Quote of the Day:
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."
Marcus Aurelius
Agenda:
1. Do NOW question...reform your group, BUT before continuing work, write up a characteristic for Mauryan empire and Gupta empire and explain why empires were so much less prominent in India.
2.Complete Empire rise/fall/comparison of Rome & China
2.Complete Empire rise/fall/comparison of Rome & China
3. SOAPSTONE primary source analysis
4. Analyze commonalities of Classical Era civilizations. (GPERSIA)
Thursday, September 12th, 2013
Quote of the Day:
Agenda:
1. SOAPSTone primary document analysis of Pericle's Funeral Oration
2. Utilize quote from Funeral Oration to support one of the characteristics of Classical Empires
3. Primary sources of the Classical Era- Analyze individually to determine what aspect of empire is clearly demonstrated (Think GPERSIA)...then connect your primary source to another which shows evidence of a similar characteristic of empire but perhaps a different interpretation.
Friday, September 13th, 2013
Quote of the day:
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT: "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."
MERS SAYETH- "You CAN pass this test and gain the strength, courage and confidence of which Eleanor speaks!"
Agenda:
1. Chapter 4 Test!!!!
2. Hidden Message follows ...See below for short answer questions which will DEFINITELY be on the test.
- What common features can you identify in the empires described in this chapter?
- How did Persian and Greek civilizations differ in their political organization and values?
- What were the consequences for both sides of the encounter between the Persians and the Greeks?
- What changes did Alexander's conquests bring in their wake?
- How did Rome grow from a single city to the center of a huge empire?
- How and why did the making of the Chinese empire differ from that of the Roman Empire?
- Compare the Roman and Chinese Empires- their similarities and differences?
- How did the collapse of empire play out differently in the Roman world and in China?
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