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Big Era Four: Panorama
Unit
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Expanding Networks of Exchange
and Encounter
1200 BCE - 500 CE |
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Why This Unit? |
Big Era Four is the time period when the first long-distance
networks of exchange were established, linking distant
regions of Afroeurasia together. Ideas, goods, and technologies
flowed along these networks, fueling a dramatic increase
in collective learning. Small-scale, isolated, regional
“worlds” merged to make up a significantly
larger, more connected world. Leaders of empires created
and used the new networks to build, manage, and maintain
vast territories for long periods of time. The events
of this Big Era, therefore, represent a major step along
the road toward the interconnected and interdependent
world we live in today. The lessons in this Teaching
Unit require students to interact with the material
in the Power Point Overview Presentation, using either
a computer or a hard copy printed from a computer.
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| Unit Objectives |
Upon completing this unit, students
will be able to:
1. Explain the surge in population
growth during this Big Era.
2. Describe some social and environmental
consequences of population growth.
3. Identify and locate major networks
of exchange established in Afroeurasia during this
Big Era.
4. Describe changes resulting from
new cultural encounters.
5. Identify the world religions
and belief systems that flourished during this era.
6. Give reasons for the rise of
large, enduring empires during this Big Era.
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Time and Materials |
Time: 3 to 5 class periods
Materials:
- software package such as Inspiration (optional)
- computer lab or single machine with projection system
- Powerpoint or Powerpoint Viewer
- historical atlas
- internet access or access to reference materials,
newspapers, and journals
- Power Point Overview Presentation for this teaching
unit.
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Table of Contents |
Why this unit? |
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Unit objectives |
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Time and materials |
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Author |
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Introductory activity: Pre-assessment |
3 |
Lesson 1: Population growth |
5 |
Lesson 2: Networks of exchange |
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Lesson 3: An age of empires |
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Lesson 4: Summarizing activity: synetics |
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Final assessment |
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Extension activities |
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Essential vocabulary |
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This unit and the Standards in Historical Thinking |
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Resources |
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Correlations to National and State Standards |
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Complete Teaching Unit in PDF format
Note: documents in Powerpoint format (PPT) require Microsoft Viewer, download powerpoint.
Note: documents in Portable Document Format (PDF) require Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or higher to view, download Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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