Unit Topic: Classical Europe and Africa

Unit Title: Pyramids, temples, and aqueducts, oh my!

Unit Question: Why does that roman statue look like that Greek statue that looks like that African Statue?

Big Idea (Significant Concept): Ideas move over time and cause change.

The IB Area of Interaction Community and Service: Building communities into Nations into Empires

Approaches to learning Communication-Oral, written, and visual presentations Thinking-Primary source analysis

Assessment and Criteria Concepts: Change over time Primary Source Pivot project

How Do we tell Time? A review Time, as we usually use it, is measured in years BC and AD. BC (Before Christ) counts the years before the Birth of Jesus. AD (Anno Domini) counts the years after the birth of Jesus. Now in History we usually use the term BCE (before Common Era) instead of BC and CE (common Era) instead of AD.

Timeline example The Birth of Jesus-on Year 1 CE, or A.D. 1 CE2 CE3 CE…..…3 BCE 2 BCE 1 BCE

Foldable Notetaking! We will be creating a foldable time with which to take notes. Hot dog fold 2 nd hot Dog Fold Mark of four equal sections by folding in half twice. Draw a timeline arrow across the length of the foldable, and label it according to the diagram on the next slide.

Example The Phoenicians Ancient Rome After copying the writing, use your scissors to cut each line, being careful to NOT CUT THROUGH THE BACK PIECE, this way the timeline will stay together. cut Ancient Greece Kush

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The Phoenicians 1200 BC–539 BC Civilization in Modern Day Israel Known for trading purple dye made from shellfish The Phoenicians invented the alphabet that our modern alphabet comes from. Their language formed the basis for Latin, which in turn formed the basis for most languages of Europe, including English.

Kingdom of Kush 1070 BCE–CE 350 Founded after the Decline of Egypt Actually Ruled Egypt until 656 BCE Possibly influenced the Ancient Greeks Culturally. Kush may have had a redistributive economy-where they taxed the people nad gave resources back out so everyone had an equal share.

Ancient Greece 1100 BCE to 146 BCE. This time in European history was very exciting. The Ancient Greeks created the first advanced civilization on the continent of Europe. They came up with many firsts, including the first democracy, the first to use science and mathematics to explain the world, and they had a complicated religion with many gods, as well as writing plays, poems, and music.

Ancient Rome 146 BCE to 476 CE The Romans began to conquer Europe around the time of the end of the Greek Empire. Rome was ruled by a republic, which is a type of government like a democracy where people vote their leaders in to power. In 27 BCE, however, Julius Caesar turned the republic into an empire, led by a dictator called an Emperor, or Caesar. Julius was killed, and his nephew Augustus officially became the First Emperor of Rome. The Empire took over all of Europe until it was destroyed by barbarians and fell in 476 CE.