G,G, &St assessment: Each class will divide into groups of two or three. Each group must complete a triptic illustrating the major themes of the video(book) Gun, Germs, and Steel. Students will give me there group member's names on March 30 and the assignments "cut off" day is Wednesday April 17 . Guns, Germs and Steel Why did history unfold differently on different continents? Why has one culture—namely that of Western Europe—dominated the development of the modern world? In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Guns, Germs and Steel, scientist Jared Diamond argues that the answer is geography. The physical locations where different cultures have taken root, he claims, have directly affected the ability of those societies to develop key institutions, like agriculture and animal domestication, or to acquire important traits, like immunity to disease. GG&S Notes: Knowledge and new technology spread east and west much easier than north and south. The reason is easy to understand if one understands geography. Climate, temperature, seasons, and habitat all depend strongly on latitude. Above 85 degrees north, you don't have tropical rainforest, you have Arctic ice fields. Certainly plants and animals tend to be adapted to particular habitats and climates. The same is also true of people. The practices of the farming societies in the Fertile Crescent are easily transferred west [to Europe]. What is the link between agriculture and war? Farming makes possible the development of technology, including military technology. Wars are not something new invented by those nasty Europeans. Everyone about whom we have enough knowledge has been involved with wars. Groups of people are competing with neighbor groups, and any group that develops some advantage is likely to be able to fight off, conquer, drive out, or exterminate their rivals. Throughout human history there's been this reward for developing more potent technology, including military technology.
| Lesson Standards: SSWH5 The student will trace the origins and expansion of the Islamic World between 600 CE and 1300 CE. SSWH7 The student will analyze European medieval society with regard to culture, politics, society, and economics. SSWH9 The student will analyze change and continuity in the Renaissance and Reformation. Warm up (Opening):
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