Unit 1: Foundations Period 8000 - 600 B.C.E.
Students, Below are the discussion questions for Unit 1: Foundations Period.
In addition to your reading and Key terms, you will be responsible for answering the discussion questions. These questions must be prepared in advance prior to the class period. These discussion questions will be based on your reading from notes from class lecture, text-book reading, and primary document and secondary document readings! These questions will be discussed briefly in class so you must come prepared !
In addition to your reading and Key terms, you will be responsible for answering the discussion questions. These questions must be prepared in advance prior to the class period. These discussion questions will be based on your reading from notes from class lecture, text-book reading, and primary document and secondary document readings! These questions will be discussed briefly in class so you must come prepared !
Foundations Unit 1: Discussion Questions
Before History
Before History
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The Mediterranean World: Greek Phase Discussion Questions
Directions: For each of the Discussion questions you must answer the question with a thesis and detailed answer. Provide your answer with evidence from your reading. If you use other sources , you must cite those sources, and you must write your answers in your own words. NO COLLABORATION: You can study together but you cannot copy off of one anouther.
1. Examine the Social structure of the Ancient Greeks. What Role did women play in this world? Were there variations among the different city states?
2. Examine the relationship between the Greeks and Persians. How influential would the Persian Wars be on later history?
3. Examine the Career of Alexander the Great of Macedon. What Factors drove him to conquer the world? How did he influence history?
4. Compare and Contrast Athens and Sparta . In what ways were they different? What could these differences say about their eventual fate?
5. What were the achievements and limitations of Greek Democracy? In what ways could the experiences of the Greeks have influenced the early American thinkers in the formation of their republic?
6. What were the major historical legacies of the Hellenistic? In what ways were they different from the early archaic and classical periods of Greece.? What were the changes and continuities that occurred during the Hellenistic age?
7.Discuss the Greek Olympic games. What can these games tell us about the nature of the Greeks? How was their nature expressed in their wars?
8. Follow the Path of Alexander's conquest on the Map tot hat of the Antigonid, Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires on page 216.
2. Examine the relationship between the Greeks and Persians. How influential would the Persian Wars be on later history?
3. Examine the Career of Alexander the Great of Macedon. What Factors drove him to conquer the world? How did he influence history?
4. Compare and Contrast Athens and Sparta . In what ways were they different? What could these differences say about their eventual fate?
5. What were the achievements and limitations of Greek Democracy? In what ways could the experiences of the Greeks have influenced the early American thinkers in the formation of their republic?
6. What were the major historical legacies of the Hellenistic? In what ways were they different from the early archaic and classical periods of Greece.? What were the changes and continuities that occurred during the Hellenistic age?
7.Discuss the Greek Olympic games. What can these games tell us about the nature of the Greeks? How was their nature expressed in their wars?
8. Follow the Path of Alexander's conquest on the Map tot hat of the Antigonid, Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires on page 216.
Discussion Questions: Rise and Fall of Rome ( change of Due date) Due Friday ( Next Friday)
1. What was the significance of Rome's central place location in the Italian Peninsula?
2.One of the Aspects of the development of the Roman Republic constitution was that it attached the elite firmly to the state. How did the constitution achieve this?
3.What problems did the acquisition of empire generate for Rome?
4. Why did the Rome have so much difficulty in adjusting itself politically and militarily to it's empire?
5. Discuss the steps by which the problems of empire were dealt with in the period from Marius to Ceasar.
6.What social, cultural, political and military factors held the Roman Empire together despite its tendency toward anarchy?
7.How did the emperors use the festival system of the Empire to bolster their ideology and power?
8. The Roman citizenship was extended to all free persons in the Empire in A.D 212, yet by that date it had lost a great deal of its importance. What had Changed?
9.Why were the Romans, unlike other imperial peoples such as the Chinese, so slow to adopt a formal, paid bureaucracy? What effect did this have on the development of the empire?
10.What was the fundamental flaw lay at the heart of Rome's inability to defend its frontiers in the crisis of the third century?
11.What led to the division of the Roman Empire into two largely independent parts?
12. What advantages did the Eastern Empire have that permitted it to avoid the turbulence that befell the western empire?
13. Why was the eastern Roman Empire better able to survive the attacks of the Barbarians that the West?
14. What kinds of accommodations did Christianity make with classical culture ? What new opportunities did Christianity open to Women in the Empire?
2.One of the Aspects of the development of the Roman Republic constitution was that it attached the elite firmly to the state. How did the constitution achieve this?
3.What problems did the acquisition of empire generate for Rome?
4. Why did the Rome have so much difficulty in adjusting itself politically and militarily to it's empire?
5. Discuss the steps by which the problems of empire were dealt with in the period from Marius to Ceasar.
6.What social, cultural, political and military factors held the Roman Empire together despite its tendency toward anarchy?
7.How did the emperors use the festival system of the Empire to bolster their ideology and power?
8. The Roman citizenship was extended to all free persons in the Empire in A.D 212, yet by that date it had lost a great deal of its importance. What had Changed?
9.Why were the Romans, unlike other imperial peoples such as the Chinese, so slow to adopt a formal, paid bureaucracy? What effect did this have on the development of the empire?
10.What was the fundamental flaw lay at the heart of Rome's inability to defend its frontiers in the crisis of the third century?
11.What led to the division of the Roman Empire into two largely independent parts?
12. What advantages did the Eastern Empire have that permitted it to avoid the turbulence that befell the western empire?
13. Why was the eastern Roman Empire better able to survive the attacks of the Barbarians that the West?
14. What kinds of accommodations did Christianity make with classical culture ? What new opportunities did Christianity open to Women in the Empire?