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**Areas of Study for Honors World Civilizations II**
Culture - India - China - Africa - Middle East - Latin America

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__Additional Web Resources__
[|Blog Site S108] [|Online Test Site] WCII Period X Y Z [|Progress Book] ||= || [|Culture PowerPoint] Animoto VoiceThread ||= == == ||< Service Learning Culture Current Events Vital Statistics ||= =Unit 1 --- India= There are some basic and essential questions around which our study of every area we study will be focused upon for each unit.
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 * Requirements
 * Service Log
 * Response to Prompts
 * Response to Problems
 * Service Learning Day ||
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 * Essential Questions**


 * How do governments control their people?
 * How have religious beliefs fostered intolerance and violence?
 * How does the legacy of earlier groups & individuals influence subsequent generations?
 * How has the pursuit of wealth affected world history?

__**Essential Knowledge Learned in this Unit** __
 * Religion Hinduism,w/ brief introduction to Islam
 * Religion - key concepts: monotheism, polytheism, equality, conversion
 * Religion- Comparison to other religions
 * Imperialism (Motives for, Effects of, British East India Company, British Rule)
 * Nationalism (Gandhi)
 * Modern India (India/Pakistan & Population Concerns)

__**Resources Used in this Unit**__ [|India Overview & Geography] [|India's Early History through British Colonization] [|Gandhi and India's Independence into the 21st Century] Hinduism Power Point Buddhism Power Point

[|An Indian Virtual Village] India Timeline Gandhi Packet/Timeline Hinduism in Brief ||=  ||

The above was originally published August 12, 2009 at http://cffsocialstudies.blogspot.com/2009/08/digital-culture.html What Is "Digital Culture"? (20 points) Go to the [|National Public Radio] website and

o Include in your response: Name of article, who wrote and when, subject of the article, why you chose it and what you thought about it as being representative of "Digital Culture"
 * Select a story/article to read or listen to.
 * Blog about the choice to which you read or listened
 * Blog at Blogspot S108