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MODERN WORLD
HISTORY
What do you know about world history?
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Theme
■ 1. What do you know about theme?
■ 2. Where have you heard about theme?
■ 3. What does theme have to do with world history?
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Theme and world history???
■ Themes in world history addresses a particular human activity over a period of time.
Ring a bell?
So what?
Human activity and interaction helps shape history.
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Major Themes that will be investigated!
■ Power and Authority
– History is often made by the people and institutions in power.
What comes to mind?
-Napoleon Bonaparte crossing the Alps.
Does it express power & authority?
How?
Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps or Bonaparte at the St Bernard Pass, 1800-1 Credit: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/monarchy-enlightenment/neoclassicism/a/david-napoleon-crossing-the-alps
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Guiding Questions:
■ • Who holds the power?
■ • How did that person or group get power?
■ • What system of government provides order in this society?
■ • How does the group or person in power keep or lose power?
■ Think about our current president…
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2. Religious and Ethical Systems:
- Throughout history, humans around the world have been guided
by, as much as anything else, their religious and ethical beliefs.
Religion – a particular system of faith and worship.
Ethics - moral principles that govern a person's or
group's behavior.
Activity: list at least 3 particular systems of faith and worship
and name a moral principal.
Credit: http://www.nairaland.com/2997936/why-religion-sanctity-failed-test
Credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvFl6UBZLv4
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Guiding Questions:
■ • What beliefs are held by a majority of people in a region?
■ • How do these major religious beliefs differ from one another?
■ • How do the various religious groups interact with one another?
■ • How do religious groups react toward nonmembers?
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3. Revolution:
- Often in history, great change has been achieved only
through force.
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B.P.Time:
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■ 1. What is the name of the painting?
■ 2. Who is the man in the middle of the poster?
■ 3. What country did this man participate in a revolution?
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Guiding Questions:
■ • What long-term ideas or institutions are being overthrown?
■ • What caused people to make this radical change?
■ • What are the results of the change?
Activity:
Answer the guiding questions through your investigation of the following video clip
Credit: youtube.com
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4. Interaction with the environment
- Humans have had to deal and adapt to their surroundings for survival
■ There are three ways humans interact with their environment;
■ Humans adapt to their environment
– Natural hazards/disasters
■ Humans Modify their environment
– Environmental issues
– Major industries
■ Humans depend on their environment
– Agricultural products
– Land use
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Credit: http://academic.emporia.edu/abersusa/gis/students/charlesworth/Environment.htm
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Credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfGMYdalClU
B.P. What is this place
called?
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5. Economics:
- It has been a powerful force in human history and human cultures have been
concerned how to use resources to satisfy their needs.
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What is economics?
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Credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWPrMmv1Tis
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Guiding Questions
■ • What goods and services does a society produce?
■ • Who controls the wealth and resources of a society?
■ • How does a society obtain more goods and services?
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6. Cultural Interactions:
-Today, people around the world share many things, from music, to food, to ideas.
Human cultures actually have interacted with each other since ancient times.
■ What is culture?
■ Maybe the answer is here?
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Guiding Questions:
■ • How have cultures interacted (trade, migration, or conquest)?
■ • What items have cultures passed on to each other?
■ • What political, economic, and religious ideas have cultures shared?
■ • What positive and negative effects have resulted from cultural interaction?
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7. Empire Building:
- human cultures have shared a similar desire to grow more powerful—often by
dominating other groups.
Credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQBMyE7rseE
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Guiding Questions:
■ What motivates groups to conquer other lands and people?
■ • How does one society gain control of others?
■ • How does a dominating society control and rule its subjects?
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8. Science & Technology:
- All humans share an endless desire to know more about their world and to solve
whatever problems they encounter. The development of science and technology has
played a key role in these quests.
■ Activity: List as many technologies that you can in 20 seconds.
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Guiding Questions:
■ • What tools and methods do people use to solve the various problems they face?
■ • How do people gain knowledge about their world? How do they use that
knowledge?
■ • How do new discoveries and inventions change the way people live?
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We will have a quiz on the material
instructed in this PowerPoint
■ You will have a study guide which will reflect what is on the quiz.
■ There will also be a notebook grade associated with the PowerPoint during the quiz.
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