Ancient World History
From a Global Perspective
  • Introduction
    • Foundations
    • Human Ecology
  • Late Pleistocene
    • Map Exercise
    • Global Migration
  • Early Holocene
    • Domestication
  • Middle Holocene
    • Complex Society
    • Bronze Age Collapse
  • Late Holocene
    • Greece-Persia >
      • Persia
      • Greece
      • Hellenistic
    • Han China-Imperial Rome >
      • Qin/Han China
      • Imperial Rome

Foundations

Visual Literacy

Visual Literacy is the ability to 'read' and extract meaning from architectural structures (buildings), artifacts, and works of art.  Objects can reveal quite a bit about the time and people that were involved in their creation.  

Getting Started
Complete this exercise: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words with Bloom's Taxonomy.  Write your responses to the questions on a separate sheet of paper.  

Exercise 
Use the visual literacy found at the following website: Seeing Art in a Historical Context: An Activity to Promote Visual Literacy (Smithsonian)-- the worksheet is on page 2.  

Find an example of a visual source that might be used during this course (i.e. something before 1500 CE).  Below is a list of possible artifacts you might find.  Complete the worksheet above for the artifact you found.  

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  • Avatars 
  • Buildings 
  • Cartoons
  • Charts
  • Collages
  • Comic books
  • Diagrams
  • Dioramas
  • Graphic Novels
  • Graphs
  • Icons
  • Illustrated Books 
  • Magazines
  • Maps
  • Money and Coins
  • Multimedia Presentations 
  • Paintings 
  • Photos
  • Pictograms
  • Political cartoons
  • Signs
  • Statues 
  • Storyboards
  • Symbols
  • Tables
  • Timelines
  • Videos
  • Websites

Visual Literacy Strategies

Archaeology

Space Archaeology, Part 1

Space Archaeology, Part 2

Google Earth Exercise


After viewing the video about space archaeology, now it is your turn.  Find at least three of the places listed below using Google Earth.  Then conduct a brief search on the Internet.  List 3 interesting facts about each site that you learned through this activity.

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Old World 
  • The Great Wall of China
  • The Tomb of Emperor Shi Huang Di of China/ Terra Cotta Warriors
  • Hadrian's Wall in the United Kingdom
  • The Great Pyramids at Giza
  • Angkor Wat in Cambodia
  • Borobudur in Indonesia
  • Petra in Jordan
  • Great Zimbabwe in Southern Africa
  • Palmyra in Syria
New World 
  • Pyramids of Mesoamerica
  • Machu Picchu
  • Chaokia Mound
  • Chaco Canyon
  • Mesa Verde
  • Pueblo Bonita
  • Norte Chico (Caral)
  • Nazca Lines
  • Statues on Easter Island
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