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Document A/1
Locate Athens and China on a world map.
Is there evidence of contact between Athens and China?
Compare the size of the entire Greek peninsula with Han China.
What is the distance in miles between Rhodes and Mt. Olympus, between Athens
and Sparta? How far is it across Attica, from Nanhal to Beijing? what is the length of
the Great Wall of China?
How does the difference in size impact your analysis on how great the differences
between Attica and the Han Dynasty’s empire were?
Documents B/2 & C/3
What fraction of Athenian residents held citizenship?
Was there a wealth requirement for citizenship? Land ownership?
One of the axioms of modern democracy is that “all men are created equal”…judging
from the chart and the Aristotle quote, what might Athenians have said about this
quote?
Examine the Chinese population and class data in Doc C. What were the differences,
similarities with Athens?
What were the Athenian/Han population and class similarities?
Paraphrase the Aristotle quote. Did Aristotle support class distinctions?
What was the total population of 5th century China? How many times greater was
the population of China than the population of the Athenian city state?
Does Han China appear to have been a stratified society with clear social classes?
Do Mencius and Aristotle have similar views on maintaining clear class distinctions?
List similarities and differences drawn from the Greek and Chinese data.
Document D/4
What is the main idea of the words of Pericles?
What are the details that support the main idea.
Is this a primary or secondary source?
Is there bias in the document?
What is the time delay between the observation and the event?
What is the relevance of the document to the analytical question?
Document E/5
What does Bowra mean when he says, “ (The) Athenian Assembly was open to all
free male citizens.”
Create a list of the different ways an ordinary citizen in Athens could affect a
decision to build a new road to the Attica port of Piraeus.
Bowra says that the Assembly met 40 times a year. How many days passed between
meetings?
The Prytany changed membership ten times a year. What gave stability?
Was the unrestricted re-electability of generals a threat to Athenian democracy?
Was the Athenian system more or less democratic than the workings of the US
Congress?
Document F/6
What is a mandate?
Who issues a “Mandate of Heaven”?
In this document, what is mandated by Heaven?
Mencius says that Heaven does not speak. How does Heaven let it be known to
mankind that it wanted Shun to be the next emperor?
What does Mencius mean when he says: “Heaven sees with the eyes of its people,
Heaven hears with the ears of its people”? Mencius believed that good government
flowed from the Mandate of Heaven. Pericles believed that good government flowed
from the voted and participation of the people. How similar or different are these
two ideas?
Document G/7
Create a flow chart which shows how a policy decision (like recruitment of workers
to build a 50-mile stretch of the Great Wall) might be made and passed down to a
village in north China. Start with Heaven.
What, if any, part of this flow chart would be upsetting to a democracy-loving
Athenian citizen?
What is meant by the proverb, “Heaven is high and the emperor is far away”?
Document H/8
What does Pericles have to say about citizen participation in government?
What is the difference between direct democracy in Athens and representative
democracy in the US today? Can direct democracy work with a large population?
[What kind of opportunity did Athenian citizens have to participate in the
democratic process (Document E).]
What residents of Athens were not eligible for citizenship?
Were there any drawbacks to Athenian democracy?
Document I/9
Is the dialogue a primary source? Why or why not?
Midway through the document, there is actually a dialogue within a dialogue. With
whom or what is Socrates conversing in this inner dialogue?
What point does the “other voice” in the dialogue make?
Would Pericles agree with Socrates’ decision?
Compare Socrates’ ideas (Expressed in Document I) with the teachings of Confucius
in Document J. How similar are their ideas?
Document J/10
State the main idea of the first saying.
Regarding obeying the law, would Socrates be more likely to agree with
“Straightbody” or Confucius?
Create a thesis statement that compares Athenian and Chinese thinking about the
role of the individual in matters of state government. Based on the evidence in
Documents H, I, and J, does there seem to be a fundamental difference?
Document K/11 & L/12
Make observations about the Greek figure on the vase. What catches your
attention?
Speculate on where Greeks placed man in nature’s hierarchy? Do you think Greeks
were conceited?
Is there any connection between the portrayal of this discuss thrower and a belief in
democracy. In each case, how significant is the individual?
Examine Documents K and L together for stylistic differences. How do these
differences reflect the different attitudes of the two civilizations toward man’s place
in nature?
Looking at both the Greek and the Chinese artwork. In what ways are man and
nature represented differently?
Compare the quotations from Sophocles and Lao-Tzu.
What is the main idea of the Sophocles quote? Do you think it is an idea shared by
the Greek vase artist?
What is the main idea of the Sophocles quote? Do you think it is an idea shared by
the Greek vase artist?
What is the main idea of the Lao-tzu quote? Is it an idea shared by the Chinese
landscape artist?
How do the two quotes compare? Do you think that Lao-tzu would agree with
Sophocles that, “the world is full of wonders, but nothing more wonderful than
man”? What might Lao-tzu argue is more wonderful than man?
Enrichment: Complete the Analysis of these Additional Documents
and Include them in your essay.
Document M
Historians know through literary references like Plato’s that newborn exposure was
an accepted practice in classical Athens. Does the absence of quantitative evidence
seriously weaken any argument one might make about the issue?
What appears to be the basis on which a Greek couple would accept or reject a
newborn? Superstition? Economic hardship? Physical deformity?
Is the Athenian practice of exposure evidence that they did not like or value
children?
Would it be important to know if exposure was widely practiced in other cultures of
the time before judging the Athenians?
Is there any case to be made in favor of exposure? Is it different from abortion?
Compare Documents M and O (Chinese infant abandonment). How similar were
these practices?
Document N
The document suggests that an Athenian child went through three stages of rearing.
Identify these stages.
Is there evidence that the Greeks practiced corporal punishment on their children?
Judging from Documents M and N, create a sentence or two that states the Athenian
philosophy of how to raise a child.
Document O
Why does the mother in Wan Can’s poem is abandon her baby?
Compare Documents M and O. How similar were Athenian and Han cultures in their
practice of exposure? Do you regard this as a stain on both cultures?
Document P
Is the notion of filial piety consistent or inconsistent with the Han Chinese idea of
man’s place in nature:
Is the notion of filial piety consistent or inconsistent with the Confucian idea of good
government?
Would you expect a Greek philosopher like Plato to give as much importance to filial
piety?
Write a summary of the Han Chinese philosophy deduced from Documents O and P.
Document Q
What might explain the absence of a Greek female voice in these sources?
What generalization can you make about the comments of Euripedes, Aristotle and
Demosthenes?
The three sources painted a dark picture of the lives of Greek women. Cite specific
examples from Wakefield that brighten that dark picture.
Does the Wakefield secondary document refute or support the three primary
documents? Explain.
Euripedes is a man speaking on behalf of women. What does this say about Greek
male sensitivity to women?
Document R
Circle or list those words or phrases that identify the values Ban Zhao believes a Han
Chinese woman should have.
Is it appropriate to make educated guesses when doing document analysis?
Compare the admonitions of Ban Zhao with the words of Aristotle, Demosthenes,
Euripedes, and Wakefield. Judging from these tow documents how different were
the conditions for women in Classical Athens and Han China?