1. What is History? …and.. What’s with the PIRATES!?!

2. What is History?

3. WWWWWH of History? Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
Who makes it? Who is it about?
What?
What is included? What is not included?
When?
When does history take place?
Where?
Where does history happen?
Why?
Why do we study it?
How?
How do we study it?
With the person sitting next to you, BRAINSTORM!
Be ready to share!

4. Who Writes History ?

5. Themes What is a theme? Big Ideas that stretch across time and place
Connect all of history

6. Interactions
Interaction among and within major societies -- patterns & effects of interaction between societies
What are some types of interaction between societies?
Human migration – forced or voluntary
Trade
War
Cultural Diffusion – process by which inventions, beliefs, and customs pass from one group of people to another.

7. CCOT
Change and continuity – What has changed and what has stayed the same across the historical periods covered in this course

8. Technology and Demography
Demography – the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, marriages, of populations
- Associated terms – population pyramids, fertility rate, mortality rate, urbanization
Technology and Demographic changes – the changes in population resulting from factors that impacts births, deaths, and life expectancy.
What factors or events would impact demographics?
War, disease, technology, medicine, new food crops, migrations, weaponry…

9. Society and Gender
Social structure and Gender Structure – the political, economic, social and cultural behavior of and perceived expectations for men and women.
What factors would influence the role of a man or woman?
Religion, education, marriage, social class, traditions
Associated terms – patriarchal, matriarchal

10. Culture
Cultural and intellectual developments – including religion, food patterns, fashion, common practices, education

11. Politics
Political organization –Changes in functions and structures of states and in attitudes toward states and political identities (political culture), including the emergence of the nation-state (types of political organization)

12. What’s with the
PIRATES?

13. Where is the civilization located?
This is the geography of the area
Can you find it on a map?
Are there mountains,
rivers, oceans around?

14. Political Type of Government Political Centralization
Political Participation
State Control over Economy & Society
Succession
Loyalty
Ideology

15. I
Intellectual
Ideology
New Ideas
Philosophies
Important Books Written

16. R Religious Religion practiced Holidays Rituals Involved
Polytheistic/Monotheistic
Wars fought because of religious differences

17. A
Artistic
Music
Theater
Literature
Art
Artists
Movements

18. T
Technological
Innovations
New inventions
Impacts of the above

19. E Economics Type of money used How do the people make a living?
Agricultural vs. Merchants
Trade (internal and international)
Role of manufacturing in the economy
Labor systems including gender roles
Taxes

20. S Social Structure Social mobility Relations between classes
Leisure & recreation
Family & marriage
Gender roles
Urbanization
Population density

21. What is history to you?
Do you think that it is important to study history?
Argue why it is important to study history and how?