Handout 1: Population Growth 1200 BCE - 500 CE

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HOMEWORK

Handout 1

10th grade

Mr WADE

Population Growth
1200 BCE - 500 CE

1. View the key development section Population Growth in the Big Era Four PowerPoint
Overview Presentation. Notice that the presentation focuses on two questions: What caused
this surge in population? and What were the consequences of this growth? The
presentation explains the answers to these two questions. At the end of each explanation,
there is a summary. Use the summaries to help you answer these two questions.
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2. Between 1000 BCE and 1 CE world population rose from about 120 million to 250 million.
Many factors contributed to this accelerating growth. Explain how each of these factors
would have contributed to population growth.
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3. The surge in population was not without consequences. From time to time during this era
famines (shortages of food) occurred in some places. How might any of the consequences
described have caused or contributed to a famine?
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4. Notice that between 100 and 500 CE, the number of large cities declined. What do you think
might have been responsible for this decline?
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BIG ERA TWO / Activity


Handout 2
Cultural Universals
Answer by writing (yes /No/ No Evidence / No Clear Evidence/ Sketchy Evidence)
Cultural Universal

Economics/
Technology

Questions

Dogs

Chimps

Homo
Erectus

Homo Sapiens
(Modern
Humans)

Unique To
Homo Sapiens?

Do they use tools?


Do they make tools?

Food

Do they prepare their


food before eating it?

Clothing

Do they wear clothes?

Shelter

Do they build shelters?


Do they have leaders?

Politics

Religion

Family/Society

Do they compete for


leadership?
Do they have beliefs
about the unknown?
Do they have rituals
associated with their
beliefs?
Do
they live in
communities?
Do they communicate?

Communications

Arts
Recreation

Do they use spoken


languages?
Do they express their
values and ideas
through
Do they art?
play games?
Do they feel fear?

Personal

Overall

Do they feel lonely?


Do they have
emotions?
Do they learn from
each other?
Do they pass on
knowledge to young?

Note Please!!!

This homework will be graded. So do the best you can. Use the internet

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