• China's Great Wall

  • Mecca, Saudi Arabia

  • Angkor Wat, Cambodia

  • Trans-Saharan Caravan

  • Indian Ocean Dhow

  • Rome, Italy

  • Moscow, Russia

General Resources for Question Writing:
Developing Questions for Harkness Discussions
Bloom's Taxonomy for Question Writing

Group A topic: The Classical Civilizations and their Demise          

Issues for Discussion:                                                                     
Their methods of imperial administration.
The internal problems that led to their demise.
The external problems that led to their demise.
Similarities and difference in their collapse.

Resources:
AP Worldipedia 2.2
Your Textbook, CH 6, 158-161
Freeman-pedia
Decline of Han and Gupta

 

 

 

Group B topic: Classical Connections

Issues for Discussion:
The networks of communication and exchange during the classical age.
Environmental and technological influence.
Items of exchange and their consequences.
Belief Systems: their patterns of diffusion and transformation.

Resources:
AP Worldipedia 2.3
Your Textbook, CH 8