World History

Unit 1: Ancient Civilizations & Religion

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Assignments:

  1. Vocabulary 1a:9/2/16
  2. Primary Source 1:9/6/16
  3. Vocabulary 1b:9/9/16
  4. Essay: 9/21/16
  5. Primary Source 2:9/14/16
  6. Binder Check:9/20/16
  7. Vocabulary 1c:9/20/16
  8. Current Event: 9/21/16

Test 1a Date:9/9/16

Test 1b Date: 9/21/16

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STUDENT OBJECTIVES:

  1. Students will be able to compare ancient river valley civilization.
  2. Students will be able to identify the characteristics of the Greek and Roman Empires.
  3. Students will be able to compare and contrast the essential doctrines of major world religions.

VOCABULARY TO KNOW:

Vocabulary 1a: Ancient Civilizations

  1. Artifact
  2. Barter
  3. Bronze Age
  4. City-state
  5. Civilization
  6. Cultural Diffusion
  7. Cuneiform
  8. Domestication
  9. Dynastic Cycle
  10. Fertile Crescent
  11. Hammurabi
  12. Harappan Civilization
  13. Hieroglyphics
  14. Hunter-gatherer
  15. Loess
  16. Mandate of Heaven
  17. Monsoon
  18. Mummification
  19. Neolithic Revolution
  20. Nomad
  21. Oracle Bone
  22. Paleolithic Age
  23. Papyrus
  24. Pharaoh
  25. Primary Source
  26. Pyramid
  27. Secondary Source
  28. Specialization
  29. Theocracy
  30. Ziggurat

Vocabulary 1b: World Religions

  1. Atheism
  2. Bible
  3. Confucius
  4. Daoism
  5. Dharma
  6. Diaspora
  7. Eight Fold Path
  8. Enlightenment
  9. Filial Piety
  10. Five Pillars
  11. Four Noble Truths
  12. Jesus
  13. Karma
  14. Laozi
  15. Legalism
  16. Messiah
  17. Monotheism
  18. Nirvana
  19. Non-theism
  20. Polytheism
  21. Pope
  22. Reincarnation
  23. Shintoism
  24. Siddhartha Gautama
  25. Torah
  26. Yin and Yang

Vocabulary 1c: Classical Greece, Rome, & Byzantium

  1. Alexander the Great
  2. Aqueduct
  3. Aristotle
  4. Athens
  5. Augustus Caesar
  6. Classical Art
  7. Cyrillic Alphabet
  8. Diocletian
  9. Direct Democracy
  10. Epic
  11. Forum
  12. Hagia Sophia
  13. Hellenistic
  14. Julius Caesar
  15. Justinian
  16. Justinian Code
  17. Mycenaean
  18. Oligarchy
  19. Patrician
  20. Pax Romana
  21. Peloponnesian War
  22. Persian Wars
  23. Plato
  24. Plebian
  25. Punic Wars
  26. Republic
  27. Senate
  28. Socrates
  29. Sparta
  30. Triumvirate
  31. Twelve Tables
  32. Tyrant

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

  1. What types of clues do artifacts and bones give about the lives of early humans?
  2. Describe at least THREE major achievements during the Neolithic Age.
  3. What are the key traits to a civilization?
  4. Did Hammurabi’s Code treat all people in Mesopotamian society equally? Explain.
  5. What are the benefits and costs of the environment in the Nile River Valley?
  6. Why did Egyptians mummify bodies?
  7. What types of problems can monsoons cause?
  8. How were the planned cities of the Indus River Valley different from other ancient civilizations?
  9. What obligations did an ancient Chinese person have to their family?
  10. Describe the difference between monotheism, polytheism, nontheism, and atheism.
  11. How did Confucius believe that social order, harmony, and good government could be restored in China?
  12. Explain the relationship between yin and yang.
  13. What is the purpose of the five pillars of Islam?
  14. What is a messiah? How is this figure viewed differently in each religion?
  15. What impact did Greece’s geography have on its early development?
  16. How did Athens benefit from victory in the Persian Wars?
  17. What steps did Pericles take to strengthen democracy in Athens?
  18. What were the battle strategies of Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian War?
  19. What was Hellenistic culture? How did this change the makeup of the known world?
  20. What was the significance of the Twelve Tables?
  21. Why were the early emperors so successful in controlling such a large empire?
  22. What factors contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire?
  23. What influence did Latin have on the development of Western languages?
  24. How did the Byzantines help preserve Greco-Roman culture?
  25. How did the Byzantine Empire led to a modern Russian empire?

ESSAY REQUIREMENT:

Early civilizations arose in the river valleys of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and India. These earliest civilizations made important and lasting contributions to humankind.

Directions:

  1. The essay needs to follow the guidelines for an analytical, five-paragraph essay.
  2. It should have at least five paragraphs, an argumentative thesis statement, specific historical examples, and at least one quotation.
  3. The length requirement is 2-3 pages, double-spaced, typed, 1-inch margins, 12 point font.
  4. Use Chicago Manual Style (footnotes or endnotes) for your citations.
  5. Don’t forget to check your spelling and grammar before submitting your final copy. I recommend having another student peer-edit your essay or bringing it into me early to check it over.
  6. A note on plagiarism: Copying and pasting—either parts or whole essay—from the internet is cheating. If you are discovered to have done this, you will receive a zero on this assignment and a written referral to the office.

CURRENT EVENT REQUIREMENT:

  • You must find an article from either a print newspaper or a news website that focuses on one of the following issues and/or regions:

  • India
  • China
  • Egypt
  • Iraq
  • Greece
  • Rome
  • World Religions
  • Turkey
  • Art/Drama
  • Democracy/Issues in government

  • After you find an article on an approved topic, you need to either print out the article or cut it out of the newspaper.
  • Read over the entire article and then complete a current events worksheet on what you read.

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At the end of this unit, you will BE ABLE TO:

2.1 Analyze the governments of ancient civilizations in terms of their development, structure and function within various societies

2.2 Explain how codifying laws met the needs of ancient societies

2.5 Analyze the development and growth of major Eastern and Western religions

2.8 Compare the conditions, racial composition, and status of social classes, castes, and slaves in ancient societies and analyze changes in those elements

2.9 Evaluate the achievements of ancient civilizations in terms of their enduring cultural impact

DBQ 1: Achievements of Ancient Civilizations

Part A: The following documents provide information about the achievements of several ancient civilizations. Examine each document carefully. In the space provided, answer the question or questions that follow (see additional essay sheet).

Document 1

This document describes the accomplishments of the Sumerians.

Source: Bech, Black, Krieger, Naylor, Shabaka, World History: Patterns of lnteraction, McDougal Littell, 1999 (adapted)

What were three accomplishments of the Sumerians?

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What impact did the Sumerian accomplishments have on other civilizations?

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Document 2

This document provides information on about the Code of Hammurabi.

Source: Bech, Black, Krieger, Naylor, Shabaka, World History: Patterns of lnteraction, McDougal Littell, 1999 (adapted)

What type of legal system did Hammurabi set up?

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Why did Hammurabi want to set up a system of laws?

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What impact did the Code of Hammurabi have on world cultures?

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Document 3

The excerpt below describes farming in ancient Egypt.

According to the excerpt, what technology is being used?

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How does this technology work?

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How did this technology contribute to later societies?

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Document 4

This document provides information about Egyptian pyramids.

Source: Bech, Black, Krieger, Naylor, Shabaka, World History: Patterns of lnteraction, McDougal Littell, 1999 (adapted)

Why were the pyramids built?

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How were the pyramids built?

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Document 5

This document provides information about the Chinese writing system.

Source: Bech, Black, Krieger, Naylor, Shabaka, World History: Patterns of lnteraction, McDougal Littell, 1999 (adapted)

How would you describe the Chinese system of writing?

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What impact did a written language have on China?

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Document 6

This document provides information about planned cities on the Indus River.

Source: Bech, Black, Krieger, Naylor, Shabaka, World History: Patterns of lnteraction, McDougal Littell, 1999 (adapted)

What made the cities along the Indus unusual for their time?

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What impact did this urban planning have on later civilizations?

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Part B: Now you are going to ACTUALLY write the essay!

Choose three ancient civilizations. What were the achievements of each of these civilizations? How did each of these civilizations make lasting contributions to humankind?

ESSAY GUIDELINES:

  • The essay needs to follow the guidelines for an analytical, five-paragraph essay.
  • It should have at least five paragraphs, an argumentative thesis statement, specific historical examples, and at least one quotation.
  • The length requirement is 2-3 pages, double-spaced, typed, 1-inch margins, 12 point font.
  • Use Chicago Manual Style (footnotes or endnotes) for your citations.
  • Don’t forget to check your spelling and grammar before submitting your final copy. I recommend having another student peer-edit your essay or bringing it into me early to check it over.
  • Make sure you indicate the documents being referenced within the essay. You need to incorporate at least FOUR documents in your essay.
  • A note on plagiarism: Copying and pasting—either parts or whole essay—from the internet is cheating. If you are discovered to have done this, you will receive a zero on this assignment and a written referral to the office.