Two Roman Questions (pages 124-129)

Please post your two most thoughtful questions here. You should have many more questions in your questions log, and you should aim to answer the more discrete questions in your reading notes. We'll share via SynchronEyes in class Monday.

Two questions about Rome

Please post here. Post only your two most thoughtful questions. Your question log will contain more questions and you should research a few of the more straightforward questions for a few minutes each.

2 more ATG questions

Post your two most thoughtful ATG questions here
for pages 7-11 of the document about Alexander The Great.

Alexander The Great questions

Post at least three questions you had about ATG here.

Just post the questions.

We'll talk in class about the one that you pursued in more depth in class.

Where and when will your civilization be?

Please post here your thoughts about where (and when) you'd like to locate your civilization in space and time. Explain the rationale for your choice.

Term IDs, plus additional research

Post your ID for the term you are looking up here. Be sure to answer who, what, when, where, why, and explain the significance of each term, based on what we've learned thus far in class.

Once you have the basics down, help make your term come alive and become more memorable for your classmates by adding at least two pieces of information related to that topic. Start with the Encyclopedia Britannica online, then branch out from there.

Gilgamesh -- what do you think?

Please post comments, questions, etc. here as soon as you can (ideally Tuesday night)

Continuing the Jared Diamond discussion

In class, we came up with the following notes/questions (pasted below)

Please address any of these questions and/or the larger question of whether agriculture was a mistake.

Please read other people's postings before you jump in, so you can see who you agree with and who you disagree with.

* * * NOTES FROM CLASS * * *

But this begs the question of… what do we mean by “better off”?

What makes a civilization successful?

Is it economic power?
Is it justice?
Is it sustainable/stable?



A combination of justice/peace*, food supply, architecture, music, economics
Fringe Culture/Arts is not squelched but encouraged
An ecosystem that can coexist
More advanced – higher quality of living
Industry/science


Utopia?

· What is justice? What is peace?
· People coexisting without (major) problems?


*Highest quality of life for the most amount of people

Is the world a civilization?
Are there multiple civilizations? What are they?