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World History I Research Final: Economic & social systems

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Economic & social systems: What is equality?

Station 5: Directions

Economic & Social Systems:

  • Use the resources on this page to think about the question: What is equality?
  • Use the GID Immersion Stations worksheet to record your ideas, observations and questions
  • You will have 15 minutes at each station

Completing the assignment at home? 

You will need the database passwords to access many of the documents

DATABASE PASSWORDS

Video

The Ancient World: Civilizations and Ideas

Watch Segment 2: Mesopotamia runtime 02:10

Description: The Sumerian civilization formed on the banks of Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The culture created irrigation systems, exported crops to trade for livestock, built the Ziggurat, and wrote in Cuneiform. The Persians conquered the Sumerians in 539 BC.

Citation: “The Ancient World: Civilizations and Ideas.” Films Media Group, 2016, learn360.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=102783&xtid=129081. Accessed 14 Feb. 2019.

Resource 1: Image from a database, primary source

Tomb of Iti At Gebelein c. 2100 BCE

Description:

Transportation of sacks of wheat on a donkey, detail of a fragment from a fresco cycle, painted on a mixed clay and straw base and covered with plaster, 127cm x 209cm, from the Tomb of Iti, necropolis north of Gebelein. Egyptian Civilisation, First Intermediate Period, Dynasty IX-X.

 

Citation: 

Transportation of sacks of wheat on donkey, fresco cycle, painted on mixed clay and straw base and covered with plaster, 127cm x 209cm,Tomb of Iti, necropolis north of Gebelein, Egyptian Civilization, First Intermediate Period, Dynasty IX-X. Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.

quest.eb.com/search/126_531131/1/126_531131/cite. Accessed 13 Feb 2019.

Resource 2: Image from a database, primary source

Bishop Blesses the Market, illuminated manuscript

The Bishop of Paris blesses the 'Foire du Lendit' (largest Paris market, every June, on the 'Lendit' Square between Paris and Saint-Denis on the trade route from the Netherlands). - Ms. lat. 962 fol.264 Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale.

Citation: 

Bishop blesses market / Illumination. Fine Art. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.

quest.eb.com/search/109_169812/1/109_169812/cite. Accessed 13 Feb 2019.

Resource 3: Image from a database, primary source

Sumerian civilization, 3rd millennium B.C.  Administrative clay tablet in cuneiform script.  Count of donkeys and carts, 2360 B.C. from Tell Telloh, ancient Ngirsu, Iraq.

Citation: 

Administrative clay tablet in cuneiform script with count of goats and rams, from Tell Telloh (ancient Ngirsu), Iraq. Photography. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016. 
quest.eb.com/search/126_3736524/1/126_3736524/cite. Accessed 23 Feb 2019.

Resource 4: Reference article from a database, secondary source

Feudalism in Japan

Citation: 

Gharipour, Mohammad, and Ethan Savage. “Feudalism in Japan.” Encyclopedia of the Medieval World: 600 to 1450, Facts On File, 2016. Ancient and Medieval History Online, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=106894&itemid=WE49&articleId=215312. Accessed 23 Feb. 2019.

Resource 5: Reference article from a database, secondary source

Sienna During the Middle Ages

Citation: 

English, Edward D. “Siena during the Middle Ages.” Encyclopedia of the Medieval World, Vol. 2, Facts On File, 2005. Ancient and Medieval History Online, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=106894&itemid=WE49&articleId=217087. Accessed 23 Feb. 2019.

Resource 6: Print, magazine article, secondary source

“Purple Reign: Phoenicia’s Trade Empire”

National Geographic History magazine May/June 2018 print

Resource 7

“Paideia - Education in Ancient Greece”

National Geographic History magazine July / August 2019 print

Resource 8

Roman Baths

Citation:

Lee, Timothy. “40 Maps that Explain the Roman Empire”. Vox, 2014, https://www.vox.com/world/2018/6/19/17469176/roman-empire-maps-history-explained. Accessed 3 Feb. 2020.

Resource 9

Roman trade with India and China - map

Citation:

Lee, Timothy. “40 Maps that Explain the Roman Empire”. Vox, 2014, https://www.vox.com/world/2018/6/19/17469176/roman-empire-maps-history-explained. Accessed 3 Feb. 2020.