1.  Happy Friday  You have 10 minutes to share geography information
Read at least two other peoples’ summaries and compare what you wrote to what they wrote
Between the group decide on the THREE most significant points in each of the readings
Be ready to share
HW: 1. Finish reading and outlining pp , Read and outline pp for Tuesday

2. Eurasian Empires
500 BCE-500 CE

3. Outline format
I. Major Heading A. Sub Heading a. i. ii. 3. B. Sub Heading II. Major Heading

4. Note taking in outline form…
Read pp and take notes in outline form following the example.
Each paragraph is a new section
Use the topic sentence as your heading
Section A. and B. are done for you (copy these into your notes)
Complete the rest of the sections and be ready to share your outline
Your turn: C. What is an empire?

5. Hook: Just to get you thinking
Should a civilization tolerate or even promote the use of more than one official language?
Is government better organized locally or from a central power?
Who should build roads, bridges, public buildings and water supplies?
How should governments raise money?

6. C. What is an empire? Political systems with coercive power
Larger, more aggressive states
Conquer other states
Use their resources
Usually include multiple peoples and and cultures under a single political system
No clear line between empires and small ethnic states
Can have common culture without a unified political system (Greek city-states=independent but all GREEK)

7. Summary of previous section:
State that exercises coercive power
Aggressive state that conquers, rules, and extracts resources from other states and people
Multicultural community

8. Common Challenges
Should they seek to impose their dominant culture and values on their varied subjects?
Should they rule directly or should they establish local authorities to rule?
How could they get wealthy? Taxes? Tribute? Labor?

9. Why are empires historically important?
They were big and influence lots of people.
Almost everyone before the 20th century was governed by an empire
Their armies and tax collectors were hard to avoid
They were very violent and raise questions about whether violence is justified in any way
Very impressive civilizations-empire-have collapsed. This makes us stop and think about whether our own civilization could end.

10. On a positive note…
Imperial states brought people with different traditions and religions together. This stimulated
Exchange of ideas
Exchange of cultural practices
Introduction of new values
Empires often provided peace and prosperity which led to artistic development
We can learn from how empires created order

11. Challenges to Stability
Large size of empire and large population
Foreigners including nomadic invaders and trade rivals
Unstable politics
Uneducated leaders
Lack of money to fund projects
Challenges to moral assumptions
Natural disasters
Rowdy people in cities and marketplaces
Establishing social rules
Religious beliefs from a foreign religion