Post on 28-Jun-2018
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Thresholds/PeriodizationsWhat is a thresholds or periodization:
The way history is divided into discrete and definable periods.
For example: Neolithic Revolution or Industrial Revolution
These periods are marked by turning points, or dates when a number of
important and long lasting changes can be identified for the largest number of
people.
There are competing models of periodization.
Some turning points may be more import to some regions or cultures of the world
than another.
If the length of the room represented :13.7 Billion years how ‘significant’ is our modern era in relation to the rest of the
world’s history?
1 inch = 40.8 million years (scale 1)
1 foot= 2.04 billion years (scale 2)
Place each threshold or period at the appropriate place on the line.
Be prepared to defend why you placed it where you did.
Thresholds/Periodization: 1.LIfe on Earth
2.Stars light up
3.Neolithic Revolution
4.Agriculture and complex civilizations
5.Earth Formed
6.Language used for communication (48,000 years ago)
7.Empires-E. Asia, MesoAmerica (3,000 years ago)
8.Empires-Rome (2,500 years ago)
9.Modern Humans on Earth
10.Big Bang
11.Modern Revolution
12.Origin Stories● Zulu● Efik● Iroquois● Mayan● Greek● Chinese● Genesis
13.World population tops 6 billion
Directions:Use bighistoryproject.com to explore your threshold or period.
Create visual on a notecard.
Use a black sharpie to write the date on one side.
Be prepared to share your event and why its a threshold or significant period in history.
For Origin stories you will read one paragraph aloud that grabbed your attention.
Compressed Time: One more analogy to understand time, history and our place in the universe…..
If the universe had begun 13 years ago, then, at this
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