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Classical Period Interactions Map Activity

Directions:

For this activity, you will have to use the maps provided, but also apply what you have read (or should have read) in Strayer in Chapters 4 – 7 about the Classical Civilizations as well as the Development of Trade and Communication Networks document that has been provided to you.

Many of the answers are from the document/reading as well as thinking questions, so you will not find all answers in the maps themselves.

Map A: The Basics on Classical Civilizations

1. Using the textbooks in the classrooms and your electronic devices, draw in and label the classical civilizations on the following world map. Some of the civilizations will overlap. Be sure to create a color coded key.

a. Phoenicia/ Greece/ Hellenistic

b. Rome

c. Classical India (Mauryan/ Gupta)

d. Han China

e. Persian

f. Maya

g. Moche (or Mochica State)

2. Cities served as centers of trade, public performances of religious rituals, and political administration for states and empires. Locate and label the following major cities of the Classical period.

a. Alexandria (Hellenistic)

b. Athens (Greek city-state)

c. Chang’an (China)

d. Carthage (North African city-state)

e. Constantinople (Eastern Roman Province/ Byzantine)

f. Pataliputra (Mauryan/Gupta)

g. Persepolis (Persia)

h. Rome (Rome)

i. Teotihuacan (Americas)

3. Locate and label major bodies of water in the Classical period.

a. Black Sea

b. Indian Ocean

c. Mediterranean Sea

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Questions for Map A: (previous page)

1. What geographic observations can you make about the Classical empires?

2. How do the Classical empires geographically differ from the early or core civilizations?

Map B: Empires and Trade c. 100 C.E.

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Questions for Map B:

1. Highlight Chang’an and Alexandria. Which empires were they part of in the classical world?

2. What is the name of the routes from Chang’an to Alexandria? Hint! There is more than one!

3. What motivated merchants to trade goods along these routes?

4. What benefit did the imperial governments (the empires governments) get from protecting the routes inside their borders?

5. Which bodies of water would merchants use to transport their goods?

6. In which regions were camels used effectively for travel along these routes? Use the AP World Region names to answer this question!

7. What were the effects of trade along the Silk Road?

|[pic] |Gandharan Buddha, Afghanistan, 4th century B.C.E. |

|Greek sculpture of Alexander the Great in India, 325 B.C.E. | |

1. What is similar about these two sculptures? Why would the sculptures share similarities?

2. What is different about these two sculptures? Why would the sculptures have differences?

Map C: Trade Routes of the Classical and Postclassical Periods

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Questions for Map C:

1. Define AfroEurasia. What religion would later move across Africa like Buddhism did in Asia?

2. What role would nomadic peoples play along the Silk Roads and Gold Roads?

3. Which Classical empires did the Silk Roads go through?

Map D: Spread of World Religions, c. 600 C.E.

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Questions for Map D:

1. Pick three different colors for the key and then color in the lines for the three belief systems.

2. Which belief systems spread to the same regions?

3. To which regions did Buddhism spread? What trade routes did missionaries use?

4. To which region did Hinduism spread? What trade routes did travelers use?

5. To which regions did Christianity spread? What trade routes did missionaries use?

6. How did these religions change as they spread?

7. Why do you think the statues of Buddha look similar despite different origins for the statues?

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Map E: Seasonal Monsoon Seasons

Map E Questions:

1. What trade route was most affected by the seasonal monsoon winds?

2. What purpose did seasonal monsoon winds have on trade?

3. What role did the dhows and lateen sails have on trade?

4. What were the effects of trade across the Indian Ocean network?

Map F: Classical Period Trade Routes

• Draw and label the major trade routes of the classical period: Eurasian Silk Roads (E/W and N/S Eurasian routes), Trans-Saharan caravan routes, Indian Ocean sea lanes, Mediterranean Sea lane, Black Sea, and Americas.

• Then, draw lines with arrows to show where goods were traded from and where they were traded to. Be sure to list the products.

• Finally, be sure you indicate what else was spread along these trade routes (religions, technology, disease, etc…).

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Big Picture Question:

How did trading networks and geographic factors influence interactions in the classical period?

Compare & Contrast Statements:

Write out one similarity between trade networks and one difference. Be sure to follow the format from the back of “How to Write a Compare and Contrast Essay.”

Changes and Continuities:

What are some changes from the beginnings (8,000 to 600 B.C.E.) period, and what are some continuities (things that stayed the same) between the same time periods?

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Map A: Classical Civilizations, 600 B.C.E. to 600 C.E.

Bay of Bengal

South

China Sea

Straits of Malacca

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