The following chart provides an overview of topics and lesson themes in the six modules of Our Shared Past in the Mediterranean. On the top line, the WHFUA Key Themes refer to the structure of the World History For Us All online curriculum. Download this chart as a pdf file under Module 1.
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TOPIC TITLES IN EACH MODULE |
WHFUA Key Theme 1: Patterns of Population | WHFUA Key Theme 2: Economic Networks and Exchange | WHFUA Key Theme 3: Uses and Abuses of Power | WHFUA Key Theme 4: Haves and Have-Nots | WHFUA Key Theme 5: Expressing Identity | WHFUA Key Theme 6: Science, Technology, and the Environment | WHFUA Key Theme 7: Spiritual Life and Moral Codes | |
| Module 1: Framing the Mediterranean in Space and Time | TOPIC 1: WHAT IS THE MEDITERRANEAN?
TOPIC 2: WHERE IS THE MEDITERRANEAN? TOPIC 3: WHEN IS THE MEDITERRANEAN? |
Lesson 1.2: The Mediterranean is a Great Place to Live: Mediterranean Climate | Lesson 1.4: Conditions for Navigating in the Mediterranean Sea | Lesson 1.1: How the Mediterranean Sea Came To Be
Lesson 1.3: An Enclosed Sea Connected to Many Places |
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| Lesson 1.5: Timescales in the Mediterranean and World History
Lesson 1.6: Parallel Timelines |
Lesson 1.5: Timescales in the Mediterranean and World History
Lesson 1.6: Parallel Timelines |
Lesson 1.5: Timescales in the Mediterranean and World History
Lesson 1.6: Parallel Timelines |
Lesson 1.5: Timescales in the Mediterranean and World History
Lesson 1.6: Parallel Timelines |
Lesson 1.5: Timescales in the Mediterranean and World History
Lesson 1.6: Parallel Timelines |
Lesson 1.5: Timescales in the Mediterranean and World History
Lesson 1.6: Parallel Timelines |
Lesson 1.5: Timescales in the Mediterranean and World History
Lesson 1.6: Parallel Timelines |
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| Module 2: The Mediterranean and Beyond in Antiquity | TOPIC 1: GEOGRAPHY AND FOOD CULTURE
TOPIC 2: ECONOMIC, ARTISTIC, AND TECHNOLOGICAL EXCHANGE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND BEYOND TOPIC 3: TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURAL INNOVATION TOPIC 4: POWER AND AUTHORITY TOPIC 6: SPIRITUAL LIFE |
Lesson 2.3: Essential Innovations into and from the Mediterranean Region, 5000 – 1000 BCE
Lesson 2.4: The Life and Times of Carthage |
Lesson 2.1: The Mediterranean Diet
Lesson 2.2: Mediterranean Trade in the Bronze Age: Shipwrecks, Texts, and Buried Cities |
Lesson 2.4: The Life and Times of Carthage
Lesson 2.5: A Bridge Lesson on Empires of the Indo-Mediterranean in Context |
Lesson 2.3: Essential Innovations into and from the Mediterranean Region, 5000 – 1000 BCE | Lesson 2.2: Mediterranean Trade in the Bronze Age: Shipwrecks, Texts, and Buried Cities
Lesson 2.3: Essential Innovations into and from the Mediterranean Region, 5000 – 1000 BCE |
Lesson 2.1: The Mediterranean Diet
Lesson 2.3: Essential Innovations into and from the Mediterranean Region, 5000 – 1000 BCE |
Lesson 2.2: Mediterranean Trade in the Bronze Age: Shipwrecks, Texts, and Buried Cities
Lesson 2.6: Religious Imagery and Ideas in the Mediterranean Over Time |
| Module 3: Becoming Global and Staying Local: The Mediterranean from 300-1500 CE | TOPIC 1: POPULATIONS PATTERNS AND MIGRATION: WHY DO PEOPLE LEAVE HOME?
TOPIC 2: TRADE: WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO RUN A BUSINESS? TOPIC 3: IDEAS IN MOTION TOPIC 5: WHAT DOES RELIGION HAVE TO DO WITH IT? |
Lesson 3.2: Populations on the Move | Lesson 3.1: What Does It Take to Make a City?
Lesson 3.3: Trade Routes: Goods and Ideas in Motion |
Lesson 3.2: Populations on the Move | Lesson 3.4: What Does It Take to Make a Book?
Lesson 3.5: Houses of Worship and Places of Veneration |
Lesson 3.3: Trade Routes: Goods and Ideas in Motion | Lesson 3.5: Houses of Worship and Places of Veneration | |
| Module 4: Mediterranean Transformations in a Changing Global Context, 1450-1800 | TOPIC 1: BEYOND GOLDEN AGE AND DECLINE
TOPIC 2: EXPANSION, EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION: POPULATION MOVEMENTS IN THE AGE OF EMPIRES TOPIC 3: NETWORKS OF TRADE, TECHNOLOGY AND TASTE TOPIC 4: COSMOPOLITAN PORT CITIES ON THE MEDITERRANEAN TOPIC 6: SLAVERY IN MEDITERRANEAN CONTEXTS |
Lesson 4.2: Mapping Imperial Contexts
Lesson 4.4: Mapping Mediterranean Movers and Shakers |
Lesson 4.5: Bittersweet: The Sugar Trade and Its Effects
Lesson 4.6: Coffee, Coffeehouses, and Controversy Lesson 4.7: Conspicuous Consumption and Competitive Trade: The Story of Silk |
Lesson 4.2: Mapping Imperial Contexts
Lesson 4.3: Comparison of Historical Maps |
Lesson 4.5: Bittersweet: The Sugar Trade and Its Effect
Lesson 4.8: Salonica, Cosmopolitan Port City Lesson 4.9: Slavery in the Mediterranean |
Lesson 4.1: Beyond Golden Age and Decline
Lesson 4.4: Mapping Mediterranean Movers and Shakers |
Lesson 4.5: Bittersweet: The Sugar Trade and Its Effects
Lesson 4.6: Coffee, Coffeehouses, and Controversy Lesson 4.7: Conspicuous Consumption and Competitive Trade: The Story of Silk |
Lesson 4.6: Coffee, Coffeehouses, and Controversy
Lesson 4.8: Salonica, Cosmopolitan Port City |
| Module 5: Reform and Social Change in the Mediterranean, 1798-1914 | TOPIC 1: THE NEED FOR REFORM: A STUDY IN THE GEOPOLITICS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
TOPIC 2: THE CASE FOR REFORM FROM WITHIN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: THREE ADVOCATES TOPIC 3: MEHMET ALI AND REFORM IN EGYPT TOPIC 4: KHAYR AL-DIN AND REFORM IN TUNISIA TOPIC 5: SULTAN ABDULMECID I AND TANZIMAT REFORMS TOPIC 6: WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT AND THE TRADITION OF THE SALON |
Lesson 5.1: Assessing the need for Reform Through Maps
ADD’L LESSON World War I in the Mediterranean Region |
Lesson 5.1: Assessing the need for Reform Through Maps
Lesson 5.4A: Portrayals of Mehmet Ali: Windows on Politics and Culture Across the Mediterranean Lesson 5.6B: Modern Institutions and Infrastructure: From Schools to Steamships |
Lesson 5.3: Two Revolutionary Documents: the Proclamation of Gulhane (1839) to The Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789)
Lesson 5.4A: Portrayals of Mehmet Ali: Windows on Politics and Culture Across the Mediterranean Lesson 5.4B: Mehmet Ali and Reforms in Egypt ADD’L LESSON World War I in the Mediterranean Region |
Lesson 5.1: Assessing the need for Reform Through Maps
Lesson 5.6B: Modern Institutions and Infrastructure: From Schools to Steamships |
Lesson 5.2: Three Advocates for Reform
Lesson 5.5A: The Man and the Image: Groomed for Reform Lesson 5.5B: Man of Thought and Action Lesson 5.6A: Man on a World Stage Lesson 5.7: The Salon Heritage and its Transformation Lesson 5.8: Scripting/Enacting a Salon Session |
Lesson 5.6B: Modern Institutions and Infrastructure: From Schools to Steamships
ADD’L LESSON World War I in the Mediterranean Region |
Lesson 5.3: Two Revolutionary Documents: A Comparison of the Proclamation of Gulhane (1839) to The Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789)
Lesson 5.7: The Salon Heritage and its Transformation Lesson 5.8: Scripting/Enacting a Salon Session |
| Module 6: The Modern Mediterranean, 1945 – Present | TOPIC 1: FINITE RESOURCES: ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
TOPIC 2: THE COLD WAR IN THE MEDITERRANEAN TOPIC 3: URBANIZATION AND THE MEDITERRANEAN TOPIC 4: PATTERNS OF POPULATION & EXPRESSING IDENTITY: MIGRATION TOPIC 6: THE “ARAB SPRING” FROM ALL SIDES TOPIC 7: EPILOGUE – IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN |
Lesson 6.6: Mediterranean Guests in The Netherlands and the Birth of Multi-Cultural Europe
Lesson 6.7: Fortress Europe or a Euro-Mediterranean Lesson 6.8: Music: Influences Into and Out of the Mediterranean |
Lesson 6.1: Oil’s Curse/Oil’s Blessing: Pipelines & Tankers
Lesson 6.5: Urban Hubs of Mediterranean Globalization: Barcelona and Istanbul Lesson 6.10: Mediterranean Futures |
Lesson 6.3: Rebuilding the Mediterranean: The Marshall Plan and Italy
Lesson 6.4: The Mediterranean in the Era of Nasser 1952 -1970 Lesson 6.9: The Arab Spring from All Sides: 2011 in Multiple Contexts |
Lesson 6.3: Rebuilding the Mediterranean: The Marshall Plan and Italy
Lesson 6.4: The Mediterranean in the Era of Nasser 1952 -1970 Lesson 6.6: Mediterranean Guests in The Netherlands and the Birth of Multi-Cultural Europe Lesson 6.7: Fortress Europe or a Euro-Mediterranean |
Lesson 6.5: Urban Hubs of Mediterranean Globalization: Barcelona and Istanbul
Lesson 6.8: Music: Influences Into and Out of the Mediterranean Lesson 6.9: The Arab Spring from All Sides: 2011 in Multiple Contexts Lesson 6.10: Mediterranean Futures |
Lesson 6.1: Oil’s Curse/Oil’s Blessing: Pipelines & Tankers
Lesson 6.2: Did the Aswan High Dam Tame or Kill the Nile River? Lesson 6.10: Mediterranean Futures |
Lesson 6.8: Music: Influences Into and Out of the Mediterranean
Lesson 6.9: The Arab Spring from All Sides: 2011 in Multiple Contexts |