SSE 4150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Measles, Iran Hostage Crisis, Friedrich Engels
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Cscope and sequence- teach students things that they need to know in order to learn further down the road. Historical literacy- to think with the material with which to think about in other words, to think about relationships- then and now, compare and contrast. Anthropology- study of humans: biologically, socially, culturally. Archaeology- the study of human history and culture through material evidence (artifacts) now use carbon- dating to determine age. Once learned how to grow food, they settled in places near rivers. Scientists say first civilization was in tigris and euphrates river area in the middle east, a place where the sumerians lived. Hebrews created first monotheistic (one god) religion (judaism) and the ten. Persians (iranians) conquered much of the middle east. Egyptians: polytheistic religion, glorification of the dead with pyramids and mummification, system of irrigation, advances in medicine and astronomy. Focused on philosophy (socrates, plato, aristotle), drama (sophocles), poetry (homer,
