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Ancient History |
Cornell Notes Form
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Unit Projects
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Content Standards:
6.3 Students analyze the
geographic, political, economic, religious, and social
structures of the Ancient Hebrews.
- Describe the origins and significance of Judaism as
the first monotheistic religion based on the concept of
one God who sets down moral laws for humanity.
- Identify the sources of the ethical teachings and
central beliefs of Judaism (the Hebrew Bible, the
Commentaries): belief in God, observance of law,
practice of the concepts of righteousness and justice,
and importance of study; and describe how the ideas of
the Hebrew traditions are reflected in the moral and
ethical traditions of Western civilization.
- Explain the significance of Abraham, Moses, Naomi,
Ruth, David, and Yohanan ben Zaccai in the development
of the Jewish religion.
- Discuss the locations of the settlements and
movements of Hebrew peoples, including the Exodus and
their movement to and from Egypt, and outline the
significance of the Exodus to the Jewish and other
people.
- Discuss how Judaism survived and developed despite
the continuing dispersion of much of the Jewish
population from Jerusalem and the rest of Israel after
the destruction of the second Temple in A.D. 70.
6.4 Students analyze
the geographic, political, economic, religious,
and social structures of the early civilizations
of Ancient Greece.
- Discuss the connections between
geography and the development of city-states
in the region of the Aegean Sea, including
patterns of trade and commerce among Greek
city-states and within the wider
Mediterranean region.
- Trace the transition from tyranny and
oligarchy to early democratic forms of
government and back to dictatorship in
ancient Greece, including the significance
of the invention of the idea of citizenship
(e.g., from Pericles' Funeral Oration).
- State the key differences between
Athenian, or direct, democracy and
representative democracy.
- Explain the significance of Greek
mythology to the everyday life of people in
the region and how Greek literature
continues to permeate our literature and
language today, drawing from Greek mythology
and epics, such as Homer's Iliad
and Odyssey, and from Aesop's
Fables.
- Outline the founding, expansion, and
political organization of the Persian
Empire.
- Compare and contrast life in Athens and
Sparta, with emphasis on their roles in the
Persian and Peloponnesian Wars.
- Trace the rise of Alexander the Great
and the spread of Greek culture eastward and
into Egypt.
- Describe the enduring contributions of
important Greek figures in the arts and
sciences (e.g., Hypatia, Socrates, Plato,
Aristotle, Euclid, Thucydides).
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