unit 4: classical traditions and major empires (era...
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Lesson 1
Unit 4: Classical Traditions and Major
Empires (Era 3)
From Early Civilizations to Empires…
The transition from Era 2 to Era 3
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Use your prior knowledge from the last unit to Turn and Talk in response to this question:
What did it take in Era 2 to form an agricultural village?
Think about resources, technologies, and institutions.
Provide a specific example you remember from Unit 3.2
Previously on- The world in Era 2… ancient river valley
civilizations in a period of growth and expansion
Argument Formation Note Tracker
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What does it take
to form an
agricultural
village?
Things people need to have
or do to change from
foraging to agriculture:
Examples / Evidence:
Unit 2
Geographic Luck – access to plants and animals that can be domesticated
Temperate climate Enough people to
populate a village The ability to
communicate and learn from each other
Catal Hoyuk, the village in present day Turkey... an early agricultural village There were humans
living as foragers in the area
They had access to several types of grains
The climate there is mild
List-Group-Label
What do you know about “empires”?
1.Working in a small group, LIST everything you think you
know about empires in 3 minutes (Yes… you can mention
Star Wars).
2.Now, put all of these ideas into groups that make sense
to your group.
3.Next, give each group a name, a label, and be ready to
share your group labels with the class.
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City-state
Early empires emerged from city-states,
such as Ur, a large city in the region of
Mesopotamia (Sumer).
Turn and Talk
– What do you think a city-state is?
– Why would empires grow out of city-states?
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Era 3… 1000 BCE to 500 CE
• What makes Era 3 different from Era 2 is the way that
human societies organized and interacted.
• In Era 2, many (but not all!) people began to live in
civilizations. City-states began to develop.
• In Era 3, many people were still living in civilizations.
But something changed for some of these civilizations.
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ERA 2
ERA 3
Turn and Talk:
• What do you notice?
• What is different?
• What was the big change
between Era 2 and Era 3?
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Demonstrating a Think Aloud:
“The shift from Era 2 to Era 3 was a TURNING
POINT in history.”
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Do a Think-Aloud with your partner about
the sentence below:
Important agricultural civilizations changed
and became EMPIRES.
Student think-aloud prompts:
– What do you think it means that civilizations became empires?
– What is an empire anyways?
– How did this change happened?
– What would a civilization have to have to become an empire?
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Location of the
Information
Things a society needs to have
or do to become an empire
Examples / Evidence
What I think
right now (at the
beginning of
Lesson 1) after I
have studied
agricultural
civilizations.
What does it take to become an empire?
Argument Formation Note Tracker:
Driving question:
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• 35 million
people
• 2,000
miles wide
• Largest
empire the
world had
ever seen
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Ruins of Persepolis… one time capital of
the Persian Empire
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Rome over time…
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390 BCE
50 BCE
100 BCE
Turn and Talk:
• What changes over time?
• What do you notice?
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Turn and Talk:
What seems to be the pattern of
change during this time period?
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So… what makes an empire?
• List of criteria:
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Militarism…
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Turn and Talk:
• What do you think militarism is?
• What does militarism have to do with empire?
• Could you have an empire without militarism?
The Big Story
Empires rose and fell during Era 3.
The centers of power shifted, but the same areas were fought over and ruled by different groups.
New empires often conquered and/or absorbed existing ones… they didn’t start from scratch (for example, Persia conquered Assyrian territory; Alexander conquered Persia, and Rome briefly controlled parts of the old Persian Empire).
Over time, the center of power in Afroeurasia shifted westward with the Roman Empire.
Other parts of this story included the development of more trade and exchange, the mixing of societies, and cultural diffusion of beliefs, values, and religions.
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Feedback Loop of Empire…
25At what point might this cycle break down?
Why would an empire fall? What problems might develop?
More people and more resources
Need for central control
and government
Development of armies,
government systems, taxes,
etc.
Need for more people and resources to
maintain army and power
Conquest and trade
Exit Pass:
• So… what DOES it take to become an
empire?
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