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The Paideia School Class: Topics in World History Teacher: Carl Rosenbaum

Term 1 – Class Presentation Topics

Unit One – Emergence of Complex Societies - Neolithic Revolution – how BBQ allowed for evolution – 750,000 years ago - How geography affected the development of Mesopotamian civilization - Warfare in Mesopotamia - Economic relationships in Mesopotamia - Egypt: Pyramids and Book of the Dead - Ancient Israelites – Father Abraham, Deliverance from Egypt, Big 10

Unit Two – Ancient India and China - The Vedas - Hinduism and Karma - Buddha and The Eightfold Path – spread of  - Tandoori cooking and Indian vegetarian cooking - Early Chinese dynasties - Confucius – Number # 1 son - Yin and Yang

Unit Three – Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome - Democracy and Sparta - Persian and Peloponnesian Wars - The Glory That Was Greece - Alexander the Great - The Punic War - Julius Caesar – Roman Empire - Jesus and the birth of Christianity

Unit Four - Civilizations of the Americas - Olmecs, Mayas, and Aztecs – Chichen Itza – other sites - Incas – Machu Pinchu - Llamas and alpacas - Guns, Germs, and Steel

Unit Five – Muslim Civilization - Birth of Islam - Sunni/Shia split - Sunnit/Shia split in current times - Early military conquests of Islam - The Rightly Guided Calophs - “Whirling Dervishes” – and Sufis - Ummayyad and Abbasid Dynasties

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