Ancient World Chapter 2,Section 1, Land Between TwoRivers, pages 29-34
•6.H.1. Essential standard: use historical thinkingto understand the emergence, expansion, anddecline of civilizations, societies, and regions overtime
•Key terms: scribe, city state, polythiem, myth.
•Key places: Sumer, Mesopotamia, FertileCrescent, Tigris River, Euphrates River
•Objectives:
Describe the geography of Fertile Crescent.
Explain the role of geographic features in the growthof cities.
Ancient World Chapter 2,Section 2, Babylonia and Assyriapages 35-39
•6.H.2. Essential standard: Use historical thinkingto understand emergence, expansion, and declineof 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 growthof cities.
Ancient World Chapter 2,Section 3, The legacy ofMesopotamia pages 40-44
•Essential standard: 6. C and G. 1. 4. Compare the role,maintain order, and enforce societal values and beliefs,evolution of laws and legal systems, need for andchanging nature of codified system of laws andpunishment in various civilizations, societies and regions.
•Key terms: code, cuneiform
•Key people: Hammurabi
•Objectives:
1.Identify key point of Hammurabi’s code
2.Explain the importance of the development of writing inMesopotamia.
3.Describe the way Mesopotamians kept records.
Ancient World Chapter 2,Section 4, MediterraneanCivilizations pages 45-50
•Essential standard: 6. E.1.1 Understand how the physicalenvironment and human interaction affected theeconomic activities of various civilizations,societies, andregions.
•Key terms: alphabet, monotheism, famine,and exile
•Key people and places: Moses, Phoenicia, Canaan,Jerusalem, Israel, Judah
•Objectives:
1.Explain the Phoenicians contributions to ancientsocieties.
2.Describe the history of Israelites.
3.Identify historical leaders of the Israelites.
Ancient World Chapter 2,Section 5, Judaism, pages 51-55
•Essential standard: 6. C and G. 1. 4. Compare the role,maintain order, and enforce societal values and beliefs,evolution of laws and legal systems, need for andchanging nature of codified system of laws andpunishment in various civilizations, societies and regions
•Key Terms: covenant, prophet, diaspora
•Key People: Abraham, Deborah
1.Summarize how the religious beliefs of the Israelitesshaped their history.
2.Explain the rules and laws that guided the Israelites.
3.Describe how Jews living in different parts of the worldpreserved their heritage.