1. Enduring Issues: Inequality/Human Rights Conflict Cooperation
Environmental Impact
Ideas & Beliefs
Innovation/Science & Technology
Interconnectedness
Migration
Scarcity
Power

2. Enduring Issue Essay Read over all 5 documents.
List 2 Enduring Issues that connect to the documents.
Write down 3-4 examples of outside information next to each document.

3. Document 1 (Qin Shi Huangdi):

4. Document 1 (Qin Shi Huangdi):
Outside information on the document?

5. Outside Information??
Legalism (brutal punishment to get people to follow the law).
Censorship (control information).
Built the Great Wall of China.
Built roads to unify China.
Shi Huangdi was the 1st emperor to unify China.

6. Document 2 (Qin Shi Huangdi):
[Under Shi Huangdi]... If a person did not behave according to the rules then others were required to report him. If they did not do this, they were quartered or beheaded. Fear and control were the key features of this political system....In the year 210 BCE emperor Shi Huangdi died on a journey through the empire...Li Siu (c. 280– 208 BCE), then prime minister of the recently deceased emperor, tried to hide the fact that Shi Huangdi was deceased in any possible way. He brought the emperor's body back to the capital along with carts of dead fish to mask the smell of the corpse. Along with Li Siu and another administrator in the court planned to place Hu Hai on the throne. Hu Hai was the weak second son of Shi Huangdi. Due to the weakness of Hu Hai, the oppressed people of China grew bolder and soon began to revolt. Through a series of uprisings and rebel alliances, Qin authority was overthrown in the year 206 BCE in the capital of Xianyang. The Shi Huangdi’s family was massacred and the Qin dynasty was thus at an end.

7. Document 2 (Qin Shi Huangdi):
Outside information on the document?

8. Outside Information?? Replaced with the Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE).
China enters into a Golden Age.
Confucianism used to bring order.
Buddhism becomes popular.
Open the Silk Road.

9. Document 3 (Rome): ROMAN MONARCHY THE ROMAN REPUBLIC:
CONQUEST OF MEDITERRANEAN AND ITALY
THE END OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
1200
BCE
800
509
450
 BCE
135-58
58-51 45
Etruscan civilization settled north of Rome and later became part of the Republic
Early people settle along the Tiber River and near hills in Italy
The Roman Republic is founded and people select leaders
The Twelve Tables law code is published publicly, standardizing the laws and punishments everywhere in the Republic
Rome fights the Punic Wars against Carthage, conquering land in Northern Africa
Civil War and reforms in Rome due to unemployment and poverty
Julius Caesar emerges as absolute ruler of Rome and conquers lots of land
Julius
Caesar is assassinated (stabbed to death) on orders from the Senate

10. Document 3 (Rome):
Outside information on the document?

11. Outside Information?? Republic (representative form of democracy).
Twelve Tables (equal protection).
Punic Wars (Hannibal invaded & Roman’s defeated back).
Julius Caesar (backed by the Plebeians).
Augustus (replaces Caesar and Rome enters into a Golden Age).

12. Document 4 (Rome):

13. Document 4 (Rome):
Outside information on the document?

14. Outside Information?? Roads unified & linked the empire together.
Aqueducts built too (bridges & water pipeline).
Trade flourished & resulted in a Golden Age (Pax Romana)
Denarius (common currency used).
Christianity spread rapidly.

15. Document 5 (Rome):
By the middle of the second century Italy [within the Roman Empire] was in a state of decline. By the time of Diocletian, at the opening of the fourth century, decay was apparent throughout the empire. Commerce (trade) had largely disappeared owing to the lack of customers, to piracy on the seas, and to insecurity of the roads on land. Trade in the everyday objects of daily use had all but disappeared, but trade in luxuries prospered. The cities in the west, omitting the places where government centered, were usually in decline. Foreign trade was sharply curtailed (stopped). At various times the government attempted to prohibit the export of various commodities, among them wine, oil, grain, salt, arms, iron, and gold. With this curbing of exports there was also an effort made to control certain imports such as is evidenced by the state monopoly in silk. These two movements hampered commercial contracts outside the empire and all but killed what was left of foreign trade.…

16. Document 5 (Rome):
Outside information on the document?

17. Outside Information?? Rome will be sacked by the Visigoths in 410.
Sacked again in 455 by the Vandals.
Empire collapses in 476 AD.

18. Essay Planning In your essay
Identify and define an enduring issue raised by this set of documents.
Using your knowledge of Social Studies and evidence from the documents, argue why the issue you selected is significant and how it has endured across time.

19. Explain how all 3 docs relate to your enduring issue!
Be sure to
Identify the issue based on a historically accurate interpretation of 3 documents.
Define the issue using evidence from at least 3 documents
Explain how all 3 docs relate to your enduring issue!

20. Connect to later historical events or present day!
Argue that this is a significant issue that has endured by showing:
How the issue has affected people or been affected by people
How the issue has continued to be an issue or changed over time
Include outside information from your knowledge of social studies and evidence from the documents.
Connect to later historical events or present day!

21. ????? The enduring issue present in the documents is:
Introduction (Paragraph #1)
The enduring issue present in the documents is:
?????
This issue can be defined as:
Use your note sheet or any other resource available.
You can use these as sentence starter statements
These are the first 2 sentences of your Intro!

22. This is the 3rd (and maybe 4th) sentence of your Intro!
Introduction (Paragraph #1)
Establish a CLAIM related to that enduring issue by completing the sentence.
Make the claim something that can be supported by evidence and mentions cause(s) and/or effect(s). Look at the three examples below for guidance (you should not be using these word for word!).
Roman Empire & Qin Dynasty are examples of civilizations that demonstrated power in history.
This is the 3rd (and maybe 4th) sentence of your Intro!

23. Paragraph 2 Doc ______??________: ?? Doc _____??__________:
How has the enduring issue affected or been affected by ________?
Information from the document to support this claim.
Outside information from Unit 3 knowledge. ??
Doc ______??________:
Doc _____??__________:

24. Paragraph 3
How has the enduring issue changed over time? Is it an issue today?
Relate this to a later or earlier Historical Event/Time Period!
Need 3 examples (other than the documents!!).
10-12 sentences.

25. Conclusion
Restate Introduction (enduring issue statements + claim statement least 3 sentences)