WHAP+2014+Unit+II+Projects

Below you will find the projects your classmates completed for the 600 BCE to 600 CE Unit: Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies. There are 3 Key Concepts you should become experts at. Under each of the Key Concepts there are between 3-5 sub-topics. You are required to read two from each of the 3 Key Concepts for the second half of your grade for this project. Analysis should include the main ideas presented in the project and how they link to the theme of Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies. Also, include what you liked/disliked about the presentation.

= **CONCEPT 2.1: The Development and Codification of Religious and Cultural Traditions** = Confucianism emphasized filial piety Key Concept 2.1 (#5) = **CONCEPT 2.2: The Development of States and Empires** = **Project 6:** The number and size of //key states and empires// grew dramatically by imposing political unity on areas where previously there had been competing states **Project 7:** Empires and states developed new techniques of imperial administration based, in part, on the success of earlier political forms
 * Project 1:** Codification and further developments of existing religious traditions provided a bond among the people and an ethical code to live by
 * Project 2:** New belief systems and cultural traditions emerged and spread, often asserting universal truths
 * Project 3:** Belief systems affected gender roles. Buddhism and Christianity encourage monastic life and
 * Project 4:** Other religious and cultural traditions continued parallel to the codified, written belief system in core civilizations
 * Project 5:** Artistic expressions, including literature and drama, architecture, and sculpture, show distinctive cultural developments

**Project 8:** Unique social and economic dimensions developed in imperial societies in Afro-Eurasia and the Americas

media type="file" key="WHAP Movie KC 2.2 ( **Project 9:** The Roman, Han, Persian, Mauryan, and Gupta empires created political, cultural, and administrative difficulties that they could not manage, which eventually led to their decline, collapse, and transformation into successor empires or states

= **CONCEPT 2.3: Emergence of Transregional Networks of Communication and Exchange** = **Project 10:** Land and water routes became the basis for transregional trade, communication, and exchange networks in the Eastern Hemisphere

[|Key Concept 2.3 (#10)] **Project 11:** New technologies facilitated long-distance communication and exchange

**Project 12:** Alongside the trade in goods, the exchange of people, technology, religious and cultural beliefs, food crops, domesticated animals, and disease pathogens developed across far-flung networks of communication and exchange