1. 8/23/10 Turn your map over and label the following areas Mesopotamia 1
India 2
China 3
Egypt 4
do you see the memory cue for remembering the 4 early civilizations??

2. as a cover page for the unit, draw a picture of a river and label the page “Early River Civilizations”.

3. Turn your map over and label the following areas
8/24/10
Turn your map over and label the following areas
Bay of Bengal A
Mediterranean Sea B
Persian Gulf C
Nile River D
Red Sea E

5. Write the following vocabulary words with 3 lines in between each word
1. pyramid pharoah
2. ziggurats delta
3. artisan papyrus
4. hieroglyphics Fertile Crescent
5. polytheism scribes
6. monotheism cuneiform
7. theocracy dynasty
8. Hammurabi’s Code
**draw a memory cue for each word

6. List 3 of the 5 qualities that make up a civilization.
8/25/10
List 3 of the 5 qualities that make up a civilization.

7. Turn your map over and label the following areas
8/26/10
Turn your map over and label the following areas
China
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Spain

8. math – 60 sec = 1 min, 60 min = 1 hour Record Keeping - cuneiform
Mesopotamia – land between the rivers
Advanced technology
wheel
plow
arch
math – 60 sec = 1 min, 60 min = 1 hour
Record Keeping - cuneiform
*Many active cities
Euphrates R.
Government
Theocracy
1st set of written laws
Tigris R.
Temples
*ziggurats
Hammurabi’s Code
*retaliation
*protect property
Specialized workers - scribes

9. 8/27/10
List 3 contributions from Mesopotamia. Write them on your map north of Mesopotamia, in the area of modern-day Europe.

10. Define the following words: theocracy Polytheism monotheism
8/30/10
Define the following words:
theocracy
Polytheism
monotheism

11. ANCIENT EGYPT NOTES Nile River -longest in the world
-rich, fertile soil for farming
-Egypt is the gift of
the Nile
-water for human travel, trade,
war, moving stones for pyramids 1

12. Technological Advances
*pyramids
*geometry
*astronomy
*calendar based
on Nile’s floods
-30 days/month
-12 months/year
-5 feast days
Technological Advances 2

13. ANCIENT EGYPT NOTES complex institutions *organized into city-states
*Rulers were
called Pharaohs
*polytheistic
*pyramids were built
as tombs for the pharaohs
who Egyptians believed
had great power in the afterlife 3
complex institutions

14. Why did the Egyptians spend so much time and effort on their pyramids?
8/31/10
Why did the Egyptians spend so much time and effort on their pyramids?

15. *Papyrus -reed-like plant used to make paper *Hieroglyphics –
symbols to represent
words
Record Keeping 4

16. ANCIENT EGYPT NOTES Advanced Cities *cities sprang up along the Nile
1. Thebes
2. Memphis
3. Giza 5
Advanced Cities

17. traders Farmers Surgeons Craftspeople Stonemasons mummification
Specialized Workers 6

18. List types of workers that are associated with the pyramids.
9/1/10
List types of workers that are associated with the pyramids.

19. The Egypt packet is due Friday at the beginning of class for a stamp
The Egypt packet is due Friday at the beginning of class for a stamp. Please plan your schedule according. If you turn it in early, you will get extra points.

20. Why is there a language program today called the Rosetta Stone?
9/2/10
Why is there a language program today called the Rosetta Stone?

21. List one benefit of the Answan Dam or the Suez Canal.
9/3/10
List one benefit of the Answan Dam or the Suez Canal.

22. Mesopotamia vs Egypt quiz
Number your paper 1 – 10. Write M or E (or both) depending on which civilization is being described.
Built pyramids
Used papyrus
Used cunneiform
Polytheistic
ziggurats
Pharaohs
Advanced cities
Tigris R.
Nile R.
Land between 2 rivers

23. Answer question #4 on page 55. don’t forget to use complete sentences!
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Answer question #4 on page 55. don’t forget to use complete sentences!

24. Ancient China Religion & Gov’t Rule by Dynasties
Huang River
2000 BC
Religion & Gov’t
Rule by Dynasties
-series of rulers from
the same family
-mandate of Heaven
meant that gods approved
of the ruler
-importance of ancestors
-supreme god & lesser gods
-priests interpreted bones & shells to answer questions put to the gods
Record keeping
*characters to represent
a syllable
*unified the large country
*thousands of characters
to learn

25. Specialized workers traders farmers
Ancient China
Huang River
Specialized workers
traders
farmers
2000 BC
Contributions
*silk
*coined money
*iron weapons
*iron tools
Cities
*walled cities to protect higher classes
*peasants lived in huts outside of the walls

26. underground army with horses & weapons made to protect the emperor 250 BC