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Welcome to AP World History! September 17, 2013

Welcome to AP World History! September 17, 2013. Please work SILENTLY and INDEPENDENTLY to answer the following questions in your journal. Use COMPLETE SENTENCES , of course! What does it mean to say that something is “Classic”?

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Welcome to AP World History! September 17, 2013

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  1. Welcome to AP World History!September 17, 2013 • Please work SILENTLY and INDEPENDENTLY to answer the following questions in your journal. Use COMPLETE SENTENCES, of course! • What does it mean to say that something is “Classic”? • Check out the second-to-last question on your homework assignment, and boil it down even further: What is THE STRONGEST argument to refer to this era as “The Classical Era”, in your opinion?

  2. The “Classical Age”:c. 600 BCE – c. 600 CE Wait . . . Why is it called the “Classical Age”?

  3. What has become classic about the Classical Age? • For one thing, it’s when the ancestors of many of our modern languages emerged. • Latin • Greek • Sanskrit

  4. What has become classic about the Classical Age? 2. It’s also when many art forms we’re familiar with began. • Columns, porticos from Greek architecture • Arches, domes from Roman architecture • Indian epics like “The Ramayama”

  5. What has become classic about the Classical Age? 3. It’s also when many of the ideas that drive our modern world developed for the first time. • Greek and Indian ideas about math and science (like our numbers) • Ways of thinking like Greek rationalism, which demands that we think for ourselves and solve problems using reason. • Democracy (from Greece) • . . . And paper to write it all down on, from China.

  6. What has become classic about the Classical Age? 4. Three of the world’s four biggest religions either began or took their present form in the Classical Age – and ALL of those four spread. • Judaism & Hinduism take their modern form. • Hinduism spreads. • Christianity and Buddhism begin AND spread. • Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism begin and become popular in China.

  7. What has become classic about the Classical Age? 5. Finally, it’s when today’s biggest nation became a nation. • The Chinese still call themselves the “Han”, after the Han Dynasty. • Many others still call China “China”, after the Chin (Qin) Dynasty.

  8. So the fact that there were all these ______________ and _________________ ________________ means that there were ____________________ to think of them, and that somehow lots of other __________________ heard about them and passed them along. Well, how did THAT happen?

  9. What Happened – And Why? • Sailing technology improved – in the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and in China, especially. (Lateen sails and dhows!)

  10. What Happened – And Why? • Domesticated animals like horses and camels were used by more and more people in Eurasia. Also, new technologies like stirrups and saddles were inventend.

  11. What Happened – And Why? • The technology of ironworking spread to more and more people in Eurasia.

  12. In many parts of the world, people gained new crops from other regions and began to farm them. (People in East Asia began to grow and eat rice, originally from Southeast Asia.)

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