Mr. McDermott's Notes. - Dominican Academy

Global History I.GLOBAL GIRL.Relevant Questions:Who am I? What did I do?Where and when did I live?Why am I notable?Was I influential?Queen Hatsheput. (c.1540-c.1481 BC).Queen Nefertiti. (14th century BC).Helen of Troy.Cassandra.Medea.Sappho. (c.613-c.570 BC).Cleopatra VII. (69-30 BC).Trung Trac. (c. AD 40).Empress Wu. (7th century AD).Lady Murasaki Shikibu. (c.978-c.1031).Eleanor of Aquitaine. (c.1122-1204).Joan of Arc. (1412-1431).Isabella of Castile. (1451-1504).Catherine of Aragon. (1485-1536).Mary I, Tudor. (1516-1558).Anne Boleyn. (c.1504-1536).Elizabeth I. (1533-1603).Mary, Queen of Scots. (1542-1587).Catherine De Medici. (1519-1589).Maria Theresa of Austria. (1717-1780).Catherine II, ‘the Great.’ (1729-1796).Marie Antoinette. (1755-1793).Mary Wollstonecraft. (1759-1797).Louisa of Prussia. (1776-1810).Edith Cavell. (1865-1915).Maria Curie. (1867-1934).Maria Eva Duarte de Peron. (1919-1952).Aung San Suu Kyi. (1945- ).

Introduction - Early Civilizations. (Prehistory-256 BC).Outline:Chap 1 - Toward Civilization. (Prehistory-3000 BC).Chap 2 - First Civilizations: Africa & Asia. (3200 BC-500 BC).Chap 3 - Early Civilizations in India & China. (2500 BC-256 BC).Illustration (p.1) is BIG temple to ruler Ramses II of Egypt.BIG means power!BIG means status!Illustrations (p.2) touch on three separate areas:Who was this man?Ramses II of Egypt.Why did someone write on this shell?Oracle bones in China.Where did the people go?Ruins in Indus Valley - Pakistan today.Illustration (p.3).How was this pyramid built? Egypt, once again.Why study history?Text says because history is a fascinating story.What do students think?Teacher believes understanding the past helps living in present.History is more than a collection of stories or biographies.Consider themes.Such as American democracy is based on Greek ideas of freedom andRoman ideas of law ... from more than 2000 years ago.Or how nations developed. How people interacted with their environment.Contrast land-based China with island-oriented Japan.How modern science developed.How religious values affected civilization.How different societies were formed.This is a chronological approach to global history, sometimes topical, as different periodsare studied across time and place for major physicaland political features of the world.