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NAME
DATE
BIGGER PICTURE
Roots of Society – Social 90
2
LAST UNIT/Experience
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8
Interactions and Interdependence
History and Society
Student Activities
or Assignments
- Studying history
5
UNIT MAP
by examining
- Origins of life
- Ages of humankind
- Overview North American
Indigenous society
- Mini-research projects
( societies – where they
lived, when they flourished,
main contributions
- Presentations
- Map society locations
NEXT UNIT/Experience
3
CURRENT
CURRENT
UNIT UNIT
1
early peoples
by overviewing
North American
Indigenous
society
gaining a general
understanding of the
development of human
societies
by overviewing
Ancient China /
Ancient Japan
by overviewing
by overviewing
by overviewing
by overviewing
Mesopotamia /
Ancient Egypt
Medieval Europe /
Renaissance
Europe
Aztec / Incan /
Mayan
Ancient Greece
/ Ancient Rome
- Timeline of society
development
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Sequence / Timelines
Description
Compare / Contrast
Problem / Solution
Pros / Cons
UNIT
7
1. Why did humans choose to live in societies?
2. How did societies develop?
3. Where did various societies develop around the world?
4. How did the main contributions of early societies affect more recent societies?
4. How can timelines of societal development help us understand human interaction?
RELATIONSHIPS
UNIT SELF-TEST
QUESTIONS
- Note importance of various
societies
The Unit Organizer
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NAME
DATE
History and Society
Expanded Unit Map
by overviewing
early peoples
by overviewing
North American
Indigenous
society
gaining a general
understanding of the
development of human
societies
NEW
UNIT
SELF-TEST
QUESTIONS
by overviewing
Aztec or Incan /
Mayan
Ancient Greece
/ Ancient Rome
.
Ancient China /
Ancient Japan
by overviewing
by overviewing
by overviewing
Mesopotamia /
Ancient Egypt
10
by overviewing
Medieval Europe /
Renaissance
Europe
The Unit Organizer
History and Society
Expanded Unit Map
9
by overviewing
early peoples
by overviewing
North American
Indigenous
society
- African view of the
origin of life
- European views of
the origin of life
Creationism
Evolution
- Ice Ages
- Stone Age
- Paleolithic times
early hunters
early societies
spread of humans
Cro-Magnon man
- lived across North
America
- many different
language groups
- Algonquian (includes
Blackfoot, Cree,
Micmac, Ojibwa, and
others) major language
group in Canada
- Mainly Cree in
Saskatchewan
- Mesolithic times
- 10000BC – 1800’s
- Neolithic times
voyages
controlling nature
farming
settlements
- main contributions
NEW
UNIT
SELF-TEST
QUESTIONS
10
.
NAME
DATE
gaining a general
understanding of the
development of human
societies
Mesopotamia or
Ancient Egypt
Mesopotamia
- referred to as ‘the cradle of civilization’
- first group of people were the
Sumerians
- between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
in the Middle East
-5000BC – 2500BC
- main contributions
wheel
pottery making
copper tools and weapons
irrigate fields
study the stars
engineering skills
numbering system
written language
- along both sides of the Nile River
- 2700 BC – 300 BC
- main contributions
social organization
paper
hieroglyphic writing
mummification
shaduf (irrigation system)
tools (levels, plumb lines, set squares)
construction techniques
drugs (castor oil, senna, opium,
mercury)
wooden boats
papyrus
sundials, water clocks
geometry
365 day calendar
Ancient China
or Ancient
Japan
by overviewing
by overviewing
by overviewing
by overviewing
Ancient Egypt
federated representative
governments
igloos – winter shelters
tipi
chewing gum
fur trade
abstract geometric art
lacrosse
moccasins
environmental awareness
by overviewing
Aztec or Incan
or Mayan
Medieval Europe
or Renaissance
Europe
Ancient China
- North China plain
-Shang Dynasty
1766BC – 1027BC
Medieval
-main contributions
- Europe
religious philosophy
Mayan:
Belize
–
Southern
Mexico
(Confusius)
Ancient Greece
- 476 CE – 1350 CE
Aztec: across Mexico
porcelain
or Ancient
Inca: Ecuador - Chile
- main contributions
paper and block printing
Rome
knowledge and goods from the
Great Wall
- Maya 300CE – 900 CE
Middle East
Grand Canal
Ancient Greece
Aztec 1325 CE
domes, vaulted ceilings
silk
- southern Greece and island of Inca 1430 CE – 1532CEa
trade routes
gunpowder and fireworks
Aegean Sea
- main contributions
military weapons and tactics
terraced fields
towns
- 1600 BC – 146 BC
Ancient Japan
irrigated crops
guilds
- main contributions
aqueducts
sporting event
- Islands of Japan
Olympic games
developed fruit crops
census taking
- Jomon Era
classical architecture
20 varieties of corn
spread of Christianity and Islam
10000 BC – 300 BC
tragedy and comedy
500 kinds of potatoes
Renaissance
Influenced by China / Korea
language
cocao, strawberries
ideas of study (history,
planned cities
- Europe
- Yayoi Era
philosophy, medicine)
central plaza
300 BC – 300 AD
- 1350 CE – 1550 CE
democracy
fine art and pottery
- main Contributions
music
pyramids
- main contributions
Rice cultivation
Mayan writing
writers used own language not Latin
Ancient Rome
Religions philosophy
Mayan number system
questioning of Roman Catholic faith
(Shintoism)
-1000 BC – 395 CE
Mayan calendar
Nations developed
pottery
astronomy
strong leaders
- Byzantine 395 CE – 1453 CE
textile weaving
government institutions
writing style
- main contributions
non-church schools
laws
rediscovery of Greek and Latin
government
languages
buildings
roads
aqueducts
language
Roman Catholic religion
Greek Orthodox religion