Advanced Placement World History Summer Assignment Contact info: Mary Thompson Kristina Moser mthomp2@neisd.net (school year) kmoser@neisd.net mthompson84 @aol.com (summer) cell: (210) 639-6798 1) Obtain all required materials for the course. • loose paper • spiral notebook • textbook (available at Roosevelt High School (356-2200) World Civilizations: The Global Experience. Stearns
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I. The Quest for Order A. Mesopotamia: "The land between the rivers" 1. Sumer a. Sumerians migrated to Sumer‚ 5000 B.C.E.‚ built irrigation networks b. Became dominant by 3000 B.C.E. c. Other inhabitants‚ mostly Semites - Akkadian‚ Hebrew‚ Aramaic‚ Phoenician 2. Sumerian city-states a. A dozen cities dominated the area from 3200 to 2350 B.C.E. b. Internal and external pressures promoted cities to become states c. Importance of government in irrigation and self-defense 3. Sumerian
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16.Rites of Zhou-one of the oldest surviving documents‚ stating that Zhou ruled bc of MOH 17.yin and yang-interacting‚ opposing forces in nature‚ always should be in balance *18.Yi Jing/Book of Changes- 19.Confucius-the lader of Confucianism‚ belief in 5 key relationships and filial piety
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“As ethics and morality were laid much more emphasis and craftsmanship was disregarded in ancient time‚ people disinterested in exploring the world.” Therefore‚ the standpoint that stupid emperors and their autocracy determines China’s recession is untenable. When we go further on this issue‚ there is another one question that we shouldn’t avoid−why China’s feudalism has lasted for thousand years? At this moment‚ we need to come back to the study of our culture. Compared with the ancient Greece
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It was interesting to know about how Chinese dynasties began. Also‚ it was interesting to compare what makes a dynasty legitimate in western empire and Chinese empire. In China‚ a dynasty is legitimate by the “mandate of heaven” compared to in Europe’s “divine right.” I personally felt that Europe’s “divine right” is very unfair and it does not give normal people to protect themselves from unruly emperors. However‚ in China’s “mandate of heaven” there is a possibility of losing it if the dynasty
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During the decline of the Zhou dynasty‚ nobles in charge of different territories became stronger that the king‚ leaving the government unstable‚ and eventually lead to the fall of the Zhou dynasty‚ and the Warring States Period. Wu Di worked to re-centralize government‚ so the nobles were dependent on the King‚ instead of the other way around. A re-centralized government means less arguing between territories‚ since everyone reports directly back the the king‚ unlike in the Zhou
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decline‚another one would emerge 3 dynastic cycles Zhou- ended by a decline in political infrastructure‚ extended a territory of china by taking over the yangtze river valley. became knows as the middle kingdom middle kingdom- agriculture lands: wheat growing in the north & rice grown in the south. the diversity encouraged population growth. -the expansion mad communication & transport to the capital difficult. -zhou provided a greater cultural unity in their empire. -spoken
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are also affected by dress code policies because they cannot express who they want to be. “Transgender students have been sent home for wearing clothing different than what’s expected of their legal gender‚ others have been excluded from yearbooks” (Zhou). These students deserve the same rights as every other student. If a student identifies as male or female‚ then they should be able to dress that way‚ no matter what is “socially acceptable” or not. Recently‚ a student at Strawberry Crest High School
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Effective Reward Management “Effective reward management is critical to organizational performance.” Effective reward management‚ as a system‚ is the most powerful tool available to reinforce organizational values and translate them into employee actions (read behavior). Here‚ the ‘organization’ does not only refer to a business structure‚ but any institution (or activity) that involves people working together‚ and requires their voluntary contributions in order to operate successfully
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4‚ 14.28). This broad sense of ren can be understood as the moralization of an earlier‚ pre-Confucian usage where the term refers to the quality that makes someone a member of a aristocratic clan‚ something like nobility. Now‚ considering that the Zhou ruling elite was a chariot riding‚ bow wielding warrior aristocracy‚ it’s not beyond possibility that ren in its ancient usage means something like manliness. Ren in its narrower sense (where it refers to one desirable quality among others; 14.28)
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