What is an Empire?

Big Concepts
• What skills do people need to survive?
• How do people adapt?
• Climate Change
• Agriculture and Technology Changes
• How do people organize themselves?
• What are triggers for change in Human history?
• Change V Continuity
• Child Rearing
• Socialization
The Individual’s Story
V the History
Records
Writing
Art
Message
Lesson
Learning
History
 Social Differentiation

“Civilized” “Barbaric”
• Cultural Absorption • Individualization
• “Settled” • Nomadic
• “Organized Religion” with a Hierarchy • “Cult”
• “Citizen” • “Non-Citizen”
• Written Language • Oral Tradition
• Race/Ethnicity/Nationality • “Other”
• “Builders” • “Primitive Builders”
• “Government” • Clan or Tribal based Government
• “Historians, Philosophers, Scientist” • “Lesser Evolved”
 What Were the Watershed
Moments?

List 5 Watershed moments in Ancient History with your group.

(3000 BCE – Today`)
Explain them and why.