WARM UP:
Imagine you are an emperor and you have just
conquered some new territory. You want to
gain (and keep) the loyalty of the newly
conquered people… what will you do to keep
control over them? Why?
Write a short paragraph explaining what you
would do and why
Agenda
-Warm Up: You’re the Emperor
-Ancient Persia: Important Figures
-Indo-European Migrations
-Caste system
-Journal Writing
bureaucracy
Rig Veda
Where we’re going:
gentlemen
Empress Lu
Four Noble Truths
stupas
karma
satraps
Upanishad
I Ching
Shi Huangdi
patriarchal
Asoka
s
Cyrus the Great
Mahayana
sangha Qin Dynasty Hinduism
varna
Chandragupta Maurya
Mahabharata
Yin and Yang
Darius I
Laozi
Vishnu hierarchy
Confucius
Tamil
Vedas Daoism
Emperor Wudi
bodhisattvas
Jainism
caste system
Dynastic Cycle
The Analects
Wang Mang
Shudras
reincarnation
Aryan
moksha
filial
piety
Chandra Gupta
feudalism
autocracy
Han Dynasty
Zoroaster
Bhagavad-Gita
Theravada
Brahmins
unification
centralization Liu Bang
The Eightfold Path
Zhou Dynasty
provinces
Chandra Gupta II
Silk Road
Siddhartha Gautama
Dao De Jing
Shiva
Magadha
Legalism
Mandate of Heaven
matriarchal
Great Wall of China
Plan, 3rd period:
Monday
Tuesday
25th
31st
Wednesday
26th
Thursday
Friday
27th
28th
Intro, Persia, Indo-European
Migrations
Hinduism and Buddhism Develop
1st
3rd
Mauryan and Gupta Empires
2nd
China – Zhou, Qin, and Han
Empires
Study Guide Handed Out
6th
7th
8th
Group
Test Part 1
NO SCHOOL
Activity/Review
(Election Day)
Day 2
ALL WORK FOR
UNIT 3 DUE
9th
Test Part 2
4th
Group
Activity/Review
Day 1
Plan, 5th and 7th Period
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
25th
26th
27th
28th
Intro, Persia,
Indo-European
Migrations
31st
1st
2nd
Mauryan and
Gupta Empires
Hinduism and
Buddhism
Develop
3rd
China – Zhou,
Qin, and Han
Dynasties
Study Guide
Handed Out
6th
7th
8th
Group
ALL WORK FOR NO SCHOOL
Activity/Review UNIT 3 REALLY (Election Day)
Day
REALLY DUE
ALL WORK FOR
9th
Test!!!!!
4th
What will you do?
Meet Cyrus the Great!
Why was he so great?
• Tolerance!
Historical Heads
• Cyrus – Page 99 starting with “Cyrus the Great
Founds an Empire” to “Persian Rule” on page
100
• Darius – Read from page 100 “Persian Rule” to
the end of page 101
• Zoroaster – Page 103
Cyrus the Great
Darius I
Zoroaster
Darius I
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Well-organized, efficient administration
20 provinces
Satraps in each province
Roads
Coins
Zoroastrianism
• Zoroaster, lived around 600 BCE
• Struggle between good and evil
• One god
Indo-European Migrations
Indo-European Migrations
Caste System
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Rigid societal structure based on occupation
Portuguese soldiers called groups castes
Cleanliness and purity
Determined role in society
– Marriage, daily routines
• Each group known as a “varna”
– Means skin color
Caste System
Brahmins
Kshatriyas
Vaisyas
Shudras
Untouchables
(Outcastes)
Caste System - Brahmins
Brahmins
•Priests
•Entitled to study the Vedas
•Perform rites and rituals
•Middle men between god
and men
•Highest position of man on
earth
•Considered so pure that
they could only eat food
prepared by other Brahmins
Brahmins
Kshatriyas
Caste System - Kshatriyas
Kshatriyas
•Warriors
•Soldiers
•Rulers
•Political leaders
•Commanded to protect the people
•Resembles noble class of medieval
Europe
Brahmins
Kshatriyas
Vaisyas
Caste System - Vaisyas
•Traders and landowners
•Merchants
•Professionals
•Like middle class America
Vaisyas
Brahmins
Kshatriyas
Vaisyas
Shudras
Caste System - Shudras
•Peasants
•Laborers
•Servants
•Duty to serve other three castes
•Not allowed to learn Sanskrit or study
the Vedas by themselves
Shudras
Brahmins
Kshatriyas
Vaisyas
Shudras
Untouchables
(Outcastes)
Caste System - Untouchables
•Lived outside the caste structure
•Impure work
•Butchers, gravediggers, trash collectors
•Touch could endanger purity of others
•Not allowed to learn Sanskrit or study the Vedas by
themselves
Untouchables
(Outcastes)
Brahmins
Kshatriyas
Vaisyas
Shudras
Untouchables
(Outcastes)
JOURNAL TIME!!!
Journal
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1: Brahmins
2: Kshatriyas
3: Vaisyas
4: Shudras
5: Untouchables
As a member of this group, how do you feel
about the caste system? Why? What would
you change?
Review and Preview
-Warm Up: You’re the Emperor
-Ancient Persia: Important Figures
-Indo-European Migrations
-Caste system
-Journal Writing
NEXT TIME: Hinduism and Buddhism