Rachel, Scott Tiauna
Ginger Lewman's List: Global (social) Studies
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Dec 15, 10
Turn your students into historians with primary-source based activities that develop historical thinking skills. Activities are ready to use in your classroom. Or alter an existing activity to fit your unique needs. Exchange primary source documents and modify activity instructions. Log in to borrow from an even larger selection from fellow educators.
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Dec 13, 10
"It's almost like celebrating the Holocaust,"
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Travelers could feed their animals off the land and find food and drink along the way. In the early stages, goods were often traded trough barter, only later was money used. Silk Road routes were often disrupted and always changing due the presence of bandits, political alliances, passes closed by snow, droughts, storms, seasonal changes, wars, plagues, horsemen raids, and natural disasters. Many Silk Road towns and caravanserais were located within fortresses for protection from bandits and marauding horsemen
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Dec 03, 10
When the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople slammed shut the sea route to the Crimea, Europe began seeking other routes to reach the resources of the East and eliminate the middleman. Columbus sailed west in 1492 and stumbled onto the New World. Vasco da Gama reached India in 1498, having rounded the southern tip of Africa. The modern world began, thanks to trade.
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Dec 03, 10
In late June this dusty small town, an oasis in the Gobi Desert that sprang up hundreds of years ago as a stop on the Silk Road, drew more than 200 art conservation experts from around the world. They came to advance the cause of preserving and managing the Mogao Grottoes, 492 cave temples carved into a cliff face about 15 miles outside Dunhuang between the 4th and 14th centuries and covered with elaborate Buddhist wall paintings portraying visions of heaven and earth in ancient China.
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Dec 03, 10
KASHGAR, China — The brochure promised “a piece of heaven,” but Shangri-La, a half-built apartment complex on the dusty outskirts of this oasis town, was hardly that. The landscape was parched, and the most notable sign of life was a pack of goats chewing their way through a mound of trash.
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Dec 03, 10
The pounding drums drew me into the alley. Stepping off the main street, I saw an old man with a thick beard and a white skullcap sitting in front of a shop, banging an insistent, Arab-sounding rhythm on a hand drum. Next to him, a younger man with thin stubble kept up a keening wail, like a snake charmer, on a tiny flute.
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Dec 03, 10
Museum exhibitions often aspire to theater, but the stagecraft of this show, “Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World,” succeeds with compelling vividness.
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Dec 03, 10
Edward Rothstein writes: " 'Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World' at the American Museum of Natural History succeeds with compelling vividness. "
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Dec 03, 10
We have created this innovative educational resource for middle and high school classrooms to learn about the Spanish Conquistadors in the New World – and the legacy of their contact with Native Americans.
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Dec 03, 10
Modern-day gold-mining techniques bear little resemblance to early Gold Rush days, when prospectors arrived with pans and pick axes in search of gold.
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Dec 03, 10
For thousands of years, gold has played civilization's ultimate Siren, luring explorers, sparking wars and building empires. So what is our enduring fascination with gold?
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Dec 03, 10
There has always been an element of madness to gold's allure.
For thousands of years, something in the eternally lustrous metal has driven people to the outer edges of desire - to have it and hoard it, to kill or conquer for it, to possess it like a lover.
In the early 1500's, King Ferdinand of Spain laid down the priorities as his conquistadors set out for the New World. "Get gold," he told them, "Humanely if possible, but at all costs, get gold." -
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Dec 01, 10
European Explorer Voyage of Exploration
Sir Francis Drake Circumnavigates the World
Sir Walter Raleigh
The Discovery of Guiana and establishing the Virginia colony of Roanoke Island in 1584
Ferdinand Magellan First voyage around the World by a European explorer
Christopher Columbus Discovering the New World
Francisco Pizarro European Explorer who conquered the Incas of Peru
Amerigo Vespucci America was named after this explorer
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
First European explorer to see the Pacific Ocean from its eastern shore
Vasco da Gama Discovered an ocean route from Portugal to the East
Sir Humphrey Gilbert Established St Johns, Newfoundland
Juan Ponce de Leon First European to set foot in Florida
Sir Richard Grenville Voyages to Virginia and Roanoke Island and the Azores
Sir John Hawkins Voyages to West Africa and South America
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
First European to explore the Southwest of North America in Arizona and New Mexico
Sir Martin Frobisher Voyages to Labrador and Greenland
Hernando De Soto First European to explore Florida and South East America
Sir Richard Hawkins Voyages to South America
Hernando Cortes Spanish conqueror of Mexico and the Aztec Empire
Bartolomeu Dias
The first European to lead a 1487 voyage around the Cape of Good Hope on the Southern most tip of South Africa
Pedro Alvares Cabral The first European to see Brazil in 1500
Giovanni da Verrazzano
European explorer from Italy who explored the NE coast of North America from Cape Fear, North Carolina to Maine
Gaspar and Miguel Corte Real Exploring Greenland and the coast of Newfoundland
John Cabot
Exploring the coastline of Canada the subsequent colonization of Canada. Cabot was the second European to find North America (after Christopher Columbus)
Sebastian Cabot
Son of John Cabot. Searching for the Northwest passage across North America, attempting to circumnavigate the world and making expeditions to Russia
Jacques Cartier Led three expeditions of exploration to Canada
Henry Hudson The discovery of the Hudson Rive
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These are the sites that can be utilized in a "social studies" classroom. At TPLC, we call it Global Studies, since we tie everything to current real-world and the Life Practice Model.
Updated on Dec 20, 10
Created on Mar 30, 08
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