1. Ancient World Chapter 2, Section 1, Land Between Two Rivers, pages 29-34
6.H.1. Essential standard: use historical thinking to understand the emergence, expansion, and decline of civilizations, societies, and regions over time
Key terms: scribe, city state, polythiem, myth.
Key places: Sumer, Mesopotamia, Fertile Crescent, Tigris River, Euphrates River
Objectives:
Describe the geography of Fertile Crescent.
Explain the role of geographic features in the growth of cities.

2. Ancient World Chapter 2, Section 2, Babylonia and Assyria pages 35-39
6.H.2. Essential standard: Use historical thinking to understand emergence, expansion, and decline of civilizations, societies, and regions over time.
Key terms: empire, caravan, and bazaar
Keep people and places: Nebuchadnezzar II, Babylonia, Assyria, New Babylonia Empire
Objectives:
Explore how empires formed in Mesopotamia..
Explain the role of geographic features in the growth of cities.

3. Ancient World Chapter 2, Section 3, The legacy of Mesopotamia pages 40-44
Essential standard: 6. C and G Compare the role, maintain order, and enforce societal values and beliefs, evolution of laws and legal systems, need for and changing nature of codified system of laws and punishment in various civilizations, societies and regions.
Key terms: code, cuneiform
Key people: Hammurabi
Objectives:
Identify key point of Hammurabi’s code
Explain the importance of the development of writing in Mesopotamia.
Describe the way Mesopotamians kept records.

4. Ancient World Chapter 2, Section 4, Mediterranean Civilizations pages 45-50
Essential standard: 6. E.1.1 Understand how the physical environment and human interaction affected the economic activities of various civilizations,societies, and regions.
Key terms: alphabet, monotheism, famine,and exile
Key people and places: Moses, Phoenicia, Canaan, Jerusalem, Israel, Judah
Objectives:
Explain the Phoenicians contributions to ancient societies.
Describe the history of Israelites.
Identify historical leaders of the Israelites.

5. Ancient World Chapter 2, Section 5, Judaism, pages 51-55
Essential standard: 6. C and G Compare the role, maintain order, and enforce societal values and beliefs, evolution of laws and legal systems, need for and changing nature of codified system of laws and punishment in various civilizations, societies and regions
Key Terms: covenant, prophet, diaspora
Key People: Abraham, Deborah
Summarize how the religious beliefs of the Israelites shaped their history.
Explain the rules and laws that guided the Israelites.
Describe how Jews living in different parts of the world preserved their heritage.