Foundations: 8000 B.C.E.- 600 C.E.* *AP World History New Periods 8000 BCE- 600 BCE 600 BCE- 600 CE.
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Transcript of Foundations: 8000 B.C.E.- 600 C.E.* *AP World History New Periods 8000 BCE- 600 BCE 600 BCE- 600 CE.
Foundations: 8000 B.C.E.- 600 C.E.*
*AP World History New Periods
•8000 BCE- 600 BCE
•600 BCE- 600 CE
Foundations Themes
Interaction and Exchange
Urbanization
Nomadic Peoples
Axial Age
Empires
Spread of Religion
Key Concept 1.1. Big Geography and the Peopling of the Earth
Migration of hunting and foraging humans
Adaptations of technology and culture (fire, new tools, animistic, small kinship groups, limited interactions)
Key Concept 1.3. The Development and Interactions of Early Agricultural, Pastoral and Urban Societies
Role of Climate and Geography in Early Societies
Imagine how were early societies may have been affected.
How do you think early peoples responded?
What difference would geography make in the long term development of a society?
Finding Early Historical Evidence
Types of Sources
David Keyes, Catastrophe
Changing interpretations and new evidence
Nomadic Peoples
Hunting-gathering lifestyle (!Kung people)
Labor/ leisure
Population growth
Gender relations
Rise of Agriculture
Spontaneous separate development – why, where and when?
Diffusion of specific plants and techniques
Early Societies
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Indus
Shang
Mesoamerica and Andean South America (Olmec and Chavin)
Period 2: Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies, c. 600 B.C.E. to c. 600 C.E.
Key Concept 2.1. The Development and Codification of Religious and Cultural Traditions
Key Concept 2.2. The Development of States and Empires
Key Concept 2.3. Emergence of Trans-regional Networks of Communication and Exchange
Achievements
Greek science and philosophy
Roman law and architecture
Political organization in Han China
Spiritual and artistic developments in Gupta India
Interregional Networks of People by 600 C.E.
Silk Roads
Mediterranean trade
Indian Ocean trade
Meso and Andean American trading