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SNAPSHOTS: TEACHING COMPARE AND CONTRAST UNITS
Snapshots are all taken directly from the Advanced Placement Course Description for world history. In general they approximate most nearly the “Compare and Contrast” essay. They can be converted to “Change and Continuity over Time” essays
I. THE ANCIENT AND CLASSICAL WORLDS: TO 600 C.E.
A. Compare and contrast Paleolithic and Neolithic cultures.
B. Compare and contrast any two of these cultures:
1. The Neolithic Revolutions 2. Early civilization 3. Pastoral nomadism 4. Shifting agriculture
C. Compare and contrast any of the following two religions or philosophical systems for gender systems and social hierarchies
1. Hinduism 2. Confucianism 3. Chinese popular religion including religious Daoism 4. Shintoism 5. Philosophical Daoism 6. Buddhism 7. Judaism 8. Hellenic philosophies 9. Christianity 10. Generalized Polytheist religions including shamanism
D. Compare and contrast the collapse of classical civilization in the Mediterranean and South and East Asia; determine why the collapse was more severe in the Mediterranean than these other two regions.
E. Compare the Hindu caste system with other systems of social inequality in the ancient and classical worlds of Rome, Greece, Mesoamerica, the Andes, or China.
F. Compare and contrast ancient and classical sedentary cultures based on cities with pastoral, nomadic societies.
G. Compare and contrast the development of institutions and traditions (political, social, economic, or intellectual) in any two of these classical civilizations:
1. China 2. India 3. Greece 4. Rome 5. Mesoamerica 6. Andes
H. Compare any two of the interregional trading systems:
1. Mesoamerica 2. Mediterranean 3.
Snapshots are all taken directly from the Advanced Placement Course Description for world history. In general they approximate most nearly the “Compare and Contrast” essay. They can be converted to “Change and Continuity over Time” essays
I. THE ANCIENT AND CLASSICAL WORLDS: TO 600 C.E.
A. Compare and contrast Paleolithic and Neolithic cultures.
B. Compare and contrast any two of these cultures:
1. The Neolithic Revolutions 2. Early civilization 3. Pastoral nomadism 4. Shifting agriculture
C. Compare and contrast any of the following two religions or philosophical systems for gender systems and social hierarchies
1. Hinduism 2. Confucianism 3. Chinese popular religion including religious Daoism 4. Shintoism 5. Philosophical Daoism 6. Buddhism 7. Judaism 8. Hellenic philosophies 9. Christianity 10. Generalized Polytheist religions including shamanism
D. Compare and contrast the collapse of classical civilization in the Mediterranean and South and East Asia; determine why the collapse was more severe in the Mediterranean than these other two regions.
E. Compare the Hindu caste system with other systems of social inequality in the ancient and classical worlds of Rome, Greece, Mesoamerica, the Andes, or China.
F. Compare and contrast ancient and classical sedentary cultures based on cities with pastoral, nomadic societies.
G. Compare and contrast the development of institutions and traditions (political, social, economic, or intellectual) in any two of these classical civilizations:
1. China 2. India 3. Greece 4. Rome 5. Mesoamerica 6. Andes
H. Compare any two of the interregional trading systems:
1. Mesoamerica 2. Mediterranean 3.