February 2017
Document Based Question, working with primary sources to dig deeper into historical questions
Big Ideas
What drove the sugar trade? What can a case study teach us about the big picture?
What is religion? How have scholars attempted to define religion?
What did ancient Chinese philosophers think was the ideal form of government?
slides from February 9th and 10th
Buddhism Basics
What are the teachings of the Buddha? What is the place of Buddhism in World History? How is Buddhism similar and different to other religions?
slides from February 13th and 14th
Religion and Violence: A critical look at the Crusades
What is the historical significance of the Crusades? To what degree does religion cause violence?
"By focusing one's attention on the apparently intolerant, dogmatic, and socially disharmonious aspects of...'the religions', our attention is distracted away from asking deeper, structural questions about violence as a condition of 'everyday' life and about the involvement of human beings in the performance of such violence...in a way that effectively insulates the institutional forms, organizations, and ideologies that govern modern ('secular') life from critical interrogation."
Richard King
MID-WINTER BREAK!
February 20th-24th
Rest up and enjoy!
slides from February 27th and 28th
Scientific Revolution
What is a paradigm shift? Why are people often threatened by paradigm shifts? What is the structure of Scientific Revolutions? Was there science before the Scientific Revolution?
The Enlightenment