PART V: Video Questions

You can access the videos by following the directions below: 1. go to www.learner.org 2. click View Programs 3. Select Bridging World History 4. Select each video segment by clicking on the VoD box to right of video name. 5. There is also a transcript of the program available if you like to read the text but remember the images are just as important. Answers must be typed, in complete sentences and submitted to turnitin.com.

Maps, Time and World History

This is a unit designed to provide an overall framework for the study of world history, so its chronological scope is all-inclusive. However, it is important to note that just as European national histories in the nineteenth century were the product of the rise of the nation-state, world history is a product of the forces and processes of globalization in the twentieth century. Watch video: Unit 1 Maps, Time and World History. Answer questions below using complete sentences.

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How has World History traditionally been told and what themes are traditionally left out? What do world historians try to do with patterns and themes? What is integration and difference in terms of world history? What is the integration example in Malacca? What three tools do world historians use? What does a map do and what are two ways historians use them? What does the map of Korea show historians? Why was it created? What is unique about the Italian map and why? What are some of the problems with ancient or historical maps? How were these overcome? How do prevailing world views shape the development of a map? What does a world historian have to consider when looking at a historical map? What does the concept of a nation state assume? What are the problems with defining history along the idea of a nation state? How do different societies define time and why do these societies do this? What is the difference between linear and cyclical definitions of time? How does Brazil combine these two ideas of time? What is periodization and how does hit help historians? What does change and continuity mean for the study of history? How much of history is represented by the time after the invention of writing? What types of evidence shows history before writing? How does environment and history interact?

Human Migrations
The major feature of world populations through time is their increasing numbers. It is likely that many early human migrations resulted from the pressure of such demographic increases on limited food resources; disease, drought, famine, war, and natural disaster figure among the most important causes of early human migrations. Approximately 100,000 years ago, the first migrations of Homo sapiens out of their African homeland likely coincided with the ability to use spoken language and to control fire. Over the next 87,000 years humans migrated to every continent, encompassing a wide variety of natural environments. The Americas were the last continents to be reached by Homo sapiens, about 13,000 years ago. Watch video: Unit 3: Human Migrations. Answer questions below using complete sentences.

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Where can every people on the planet trace their roots? What types of evidence do historians use to trace early migrations? When did the earliest migrations start and where did they go? Describe what Mary Leaky found. Who, what, where and when? What were Hominids? What and where was Homo Erectus? What is their historical significance?

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What was the big difference with Homo Sapiens? How is this difference the beginning of culture? What other advantages did the invention of language give? How did Mt. Tobas eruption change the course of human migration? What is the importance of oral tradition to aboriginal Australians? What does the development of art tell us about early humans and cultures? Why is the depiction of animals of particular historical significance? What is another way for historians to trace early migration? How did languages spread across the open water? Describe the Bantu people of Africa and how their migration can be traced. Why did the Bantu have to migrate? How many different languages can be traced to the Bantu language? What new questions do the Urumahi mummies open up for historians?

Agricultural and Urban Revolutions

The earliest evidence for the human transition to agriculture dates from about 10,000 BCE, although it is likely that there was experimentation before then. By 5000 BCE agriculture had become well established in several places, including southwest Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and the Americas. In this "Neolithic" period or new stone age the transition to agriculture depended on climatic conditions and the availability of domesticable plants and animals. As a result, not all of the peoples of the world made, or were able to make, this transition. Once societies shifted to agriculture, social and political life was transformed. Stable, sedentary settlements allowed population growth and the development of more complex social structures. This, in turn, led to the development of social stratification and labor specialization, as well as the emergence of pottery-making, metallurgy, and textile production. Watch video: Unit 4: Agricultural and Urban Revolutions. Answer questions below using complete sentences.

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What and when was Jericho? What happened to it? What are the two processes by which humans settled down? When did humans begin the purposeful cultivation of food? What started to happen soon after the cultivation of food began? What is pastoralism? (May have to use a dictionary for this) What were the consequences of humans settling down and what role did technology play in it? What characteristic did the 3 examples of early urban settlements share? What were some of the negative byproducts started to occur in new urban centers? What is domestication and what are its consequences? How is corn an example for domestication? Explain the life of a human before settled agriculture? What could humans do once they began settling down? Define diffusion. Describe 3 examples of diffusion in Mehgarh. How does the routine harvesting of some plants over others aid settled agriculture? What are some of the distinctions which grew with the development of complex societies?

17. Describe in the detail the City Of Anyang. What was its purpose. How do we know it was an advances Neolithic city?

18. What can we learn from ritual sites of Neolithic villages? 19. Why was fire so important? 20. What was Catal Huyuk and why was it unique from other Neolithic villages?