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Examine India's History through Hinduism and Buddhism

Description: 

This lesson was created to meet the requirements of an AP World History course.  This would be completed early in the course as a study of the religions of Hinduism and Buddhism and their development and spread in India.

Learning Targets: 
Students will analyze primary sources through identifying the Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker and Tone of several documents.
Students will compare the primary source readings to the Crash Course video connected to the spread and development of Hinduism and Buddhism.
Students will compare and contrast the documents after the analysis.
Students will also discuss the comparison and contrast to what we already know about India and the development of the ancient societies in India around 500 B.C.E.
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Author: 
A.Wade
Content Area: 
Social Studies
World History
Language: 
English
Resource Type: 
Lesson
Licensing: 
Creative Commons Licence
Grade: 
9-12
Tags: 
World Religion
Ancient India

Student prerequisite skills and knowledge

An understanding on the development of religions in the world.  An understanding of ancient Indian society in the Indus River Valley. 

How is the concept or procedure explained or demonstrated?

A video link to the Crash Course episide is included in the lesson.  A primary source support book is included as a resource for teachers to use for in class readings. 

What concepts or procedures are being explained or demonstrated in this lesson object?

This lesson connects to AP World History standards on early World History as well as understanding 2 major world religions and their spread in and around 500 B.C.E.

What was your experience, both successes and challenges, using this lesson object with your students?

The students need to keep an open mind about religions that are not the mainstream religion in their own community.  This is true of teaching world history overall, that students need to keep an open mind not only about religions but societies and their developments overall.  The emphasis is not to make these two major religions seem "other" or "different", but to understand why so many people still practice these faiths today and what can we learn about the societies that do practice these religions.  It worked really well to look at the development of religion overall, why did societies start to have different faiths?  Why did some faiths last to modernity and others are not practiced at all?  Overall the students enjoyed the documents and the video and it opened their eyes to world religions and world history.