In case it got lost in your email, here's the link to the Google Spreadsheet where you can add the information about the events, significance, and major theme to which it relates.
In terms of the six major themes that you can group each of your events within, let's go with this (albeit overly encompassing and general) set of categories:
- Society/Social
- Politics/War/Military
- Religious
- Ideology/Ideological
- Cultural
- Economic
If you have any questions about where a particular event from your specific theme might fit into this wider scheme, feel free to ask me or leave your question in the comments so your peers can offer some feedback and advice.
Here's the embedded timeline again. I'm excited to see how it changes over the course of the week.
A few points of clarification: (I've emailed this as well for good measure)
ReplyDeleteThe goal with the events is to draw on things we've read about that fit into your themes; in other words, I'm not expecting you to go out and research material we've not studied to flesh this out, but rather to draw on Davis and our other readings to help build the timeline.
Also, for anyone posting a date in the BCEs: put the date as a negative number (e.g. 300 BCE = -300). Similarly, for those working to cover a number of centuries, just enter the initial date (e.g. 1500) and the ending date (e.g. 1800) rather than making them possessive numbers (e.g. avoid "1500s" and "1800s").
Finally, the URLs you include must be just the image file and not a web link with any other information on it (e.g. this link is good: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/ClaySumerianSickle.jpg, but this link won't work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ClaySumerianSickle.jpg). Make sure that your entries work by looking at them on the class blog before class tomorrow, as I'll be evaluating what has been posted at that time tomorrow.