Alexander the Great: Defining "Great" ~ Social Studies ~ Instruction. Socrates and the Law: Argument in an Athenian Jail. Activity 1.
Class Discussion on "Crito" In class discussion, lead students through the dialogue in Crito, having them summarize the arguments point by point. Use the chalkboard to diagram the structure and flow of the argument, showing premises, evidence, refutations, etc. For assistance in the analysis of arguments, click "Topics" on the Episteme Links homepage, then scroll down and select “Reasoning and Critical Thinking” to find a link to The Argument Clinic, which includes a page on arguments and their evaluation, and to the Argument Identification Tutorial. As you proceed through the dialogue, remind students that the purpose of the exercise is to practice close reading of argumentation and that their own arguments and opinions should not enter into the discussion at this stage. Once the diagram is finished, have students analyze the argument between Socrates and Crito.
To what degree has Socrates created a complement to Crito through his personification of The Law? Activity 2. Lessons of the Indian Epics: The Ramayana. A Closer Look - Luxury Arts of the Silk Road. Two thousand years before today's "global economy," an exchange network linked the continent of Asia via the Silk Route.
Between the first and eighth centuries of the common era, the empires and states of Asia often came into conflict as they competed for territory and other resources or sought to dominate their neighbors in religious and political arenas. Yet the sea and overland routes between China and the eastern Mediterranean—the Silk Route, or Silk Road—also fostered peaceful interaction, both cultural and commercial. Merchants, ambassadors, and pilgrims transported crafted goods and raw materials acquired from distant realms: spices, precious metals, musical instruments, rare medicinal herbs, objects used in worship and ritual. Silk, the most famous of these long-distance luxuries, reached southwest Asia by the first century B.C.E. from production centers in China. next page Silk Road / 1 2 3 4 5 6 7.
Monuments in the Desert: A Note on Economic and Social Roots of the Development of Buddhism along the Silk Road. Connie Chin Stanford University Fig. 1.
Votive pilla, Qocho Ruin E (MIK III 6838). Museum für Indische Kunst, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin. Photograph © Daniel C. O develop into a social institution, a religion must have economic as well as religious roots. Beginning as a reaction against Hinduism and rejecting attachment to all things, Buddhism, paradoxically, spread along the routes of commerce and began to develop into a facet of urban, commercial culture in the Kushan empire, that covered a territory which is now northern India, western Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
Some Mahayana scriptures, such as the Mahavastu, claimed that worship of and donations to a Buddha offered tangible benefits. Buddhism had spread rapidly across the trade routes all the way to China by the Han Dynasty. GREEKS, AMAZONS, AND ARCHAEOLOGY. James F.
Vedder1 Los Altos Hills, California he legends of the Amazons and their battles with the Greeks were popular subjects of ancient Greek art. Images of lone Amazons, of combat between an Amazon and a Greek hero, of general battle scenes,2 and occasionally of more amicable meetings appear in vase painting, sculpture, and other forms of art.
The earliest representation known was made about 700 BCE [Schefold 1966, pp. 24-25, plate 7b]. Did Amazons really exist? Fig. 1. Persian or other peoples menacing the Greek borders and colonies. Extant ancient written records, surviving in full, in fragments, or in reference by others, also relate tales of the Amazons. Was Herodotus accurate in his accounts of these nomadic people? Bridging World History: Unit 4: Agricultural and Urban Revolutions. Lessons of the Indian Epics: The Ramayana: Showing your Dharma. The Citadel of Lanka, a detail from "Hanuman Visists Sita in Lanka," Folio from a Ramayana (Adventures of Rama), c. 1775-1800; India, Gujarat.
Credit: Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The story of the Ramayana has been passed from generation to generation by numerous methods and media. Initially it was passed on orally as an epic poem that was sung to audiences by a bard, as it continues to be today. Over the centuries it has also been written down in numerous languages, creating thousands of different (but related) texts. With the important role that the Ramayana plays in Indian society, and particularly as a teaching tool for dharma and other Hindu concepts, it should not be surprising to discover that the story has also found its way into numerous other media as well. In this lesson students will expand their visual literacy skills while gaining insight on the characters and key events of the Ramayana.