Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Pre-Colonial History

Your assignment is to research what your society and culture was like from 1500-1600AD. What would your job have been? What rights did you have? What did you believe?

Once you know where you came from - answer questions 3 and 4 on your reflection page:

What story about your society would you have written if you could have?
What message do you want others to know about you and your culture?

Japan
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2127.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/japan/muromachi/muromachi-p.htm
Women in Japan
http://www.helium.com/items/717332-the-changing-roles-of-women-in-japanese-history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geisha

China
http://chinaknowledge.org/History/Ming/ming.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_Dynasty
http://chinese-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/womens_status_in_medieval_china
Women in China
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8966942
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding

South America
http://www.oneworldjourneys.com/jaguar/history.html
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAMRCA/MAYAS.HTM
http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~shale/humanities/literature/world_literature/classprojects/mexico/maya.html
Women in South America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_Maya_society

Africa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyo_Empire
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Oyo_Empire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_people
http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/2004/database/fasanya.html

England
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-england.htm
http://www.virtualteacher.com.au/life.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1500s_in_England
Women in England
http://www.elizabethi.org/us/women/
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-women.htm

Germany
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/dres/dres3.html
http://www.boisestate.edu/courses/reformation/germany/
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/231186/Germany/58162/The-confessional-age-1555-1648

Ireland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ireland
http://www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Ireland
Women in Ireland
http://www.scoilnet.ie/womeninhistory/content/main.html