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 CE 2 CE 3 CE…..…3 BCE 2 BCE 1 BCE

Foldable Notetaking!

• We will be creating a foldable time with which to take notes.

• Hot dog fold• 2nd 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 cut cut

Ancient GreeceKush

Use pull out tab for notes

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And Pull up for Map and Pictures

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.