15.+Video+Debates

=Video Debates= = = Units 1-2. **Introduction to Ancient History:** What values were lost with the demise of nomadic cultures? Should national efforts support nomadic the mantainance of habiat for nomadic cultures?

Unit 3. **Mesopotamia**: What is the advantages of a common law judicial system over a codified system? Should either the civil laws or the criminal laws or both be codified to protect those who cannot afford expensive legal representation?

Unit 5. **Greece:** A. Pericles vs. Plato. Does democracy really work? B. Melian Dialogue

Unit 6. **Rome:** Under what conditions is slavery justified?

Units 4-6 & 9. **Judeo-Christian-Islam vs. Ancient Med. World:** A. What advantages of polytheism over monotheism made it so popular in the urbanized ancient world? B. What is the advantage of cremation vs. burial? Is this connected to the anti-abortion or pro-creationism debates?

Units 5 & 7. **East vs. West:** What would Conficius and Buddha agree on? Disagree? Socrates and Plato? Eastern philosophers and western philosophers?

Units 9-11. **Rise of the West**: Was the rise of western Europe in 1500 inevatible? Why? Why, not?

Units 1-11. **Final Concept:** What is the natural order of human existance, peace or war? If peace, why is it so limited and why do we not do more to promote it? If war, what limits our ability to destroy each other as perhaps the neanderthals were destroyed by early humans?