Bridging History: Unit Two, the Second Marking Period
"Connections"
7th October through 8th November
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Theme 1: Order in Early Societies
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How do diverse political structures and relationships distribute power and material resources? Through the rise of the Chinese empire, Mayan regional kingdoms, and the complex society of Igbo Ukwu, this unit considers the origins of centralized states and alternative political and social orders.
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Useful Early China video segment overview.
Useful Mayan Kingdoms_ video segment overview. Useful Igbo-Ukwu video segment overview. What Happened to the Ancient Libyans? |
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Theme 2: The Spread of Religions:
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How do religions interact, adopt new ideas, and adapt to diverse cultures? As the missionaries, pilgrims, and converts of Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam moved around the world, the religions created change and were themselves changed.
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Useful Buddhism video segment overview.
Useful Christianity video segment overview. Useful Islam video segment overview. |
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Theme 3: Early Economies
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How do societies assign value to land, labor, and material goods? A comparison of manorial economies in Japan and medieval Europe is contrasted with the tribute economy of the Inka, and the experience of dramatic economic change is illustrated by the commercial revolution in China.
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Useful manor economy video segment overview.
Useful commercial revolution in China video segment overview. Useful Inkan tribute economy video segment overview. | ||
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Theme 4: Connections Across Land
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How were land-based trade routes conduits of both commerce and culture? The Eurasian Silk Roads, the trans-Saharan Gold Roads, and the Meso-American Turquoise Roads trace the transmission of commodities, religions, and diseases, as well as the movements of people.
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Useful Silk Roads video segment overview.
Useful Sand/Gold Roads video segment overview. Useful Turquoise Roads video segment overview. | ||
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Use this APPARTS format for analyzing documents.
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Theme 4: Connections Across Water
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How were water routes used as conduits of expansion and trade? The traders of the Indian Ocean, the early Mississippians, and the Norsemen carried death and disease, skills and technologies, philosophies and religion down rivers and across oceans.
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Useful Useful Indian Ocean World video segment overview.
Useful Vikings video segment overview. Useful Mississipians video segment overview. | ||
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Theme 5: Transmission of Tradition
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What are traditions and how are they transmitted? Islamic Spain, Korea, and West Africa provide examples of many different modes of transmission, including oral, written, artistic, and architectural.
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Useful Islamic Spain video segment overview.
Useful Confucian Korea video segment overview. Useful Oral Traditions in West Africa video segment overview. | ||
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