Grade 6

Social Studies

The Beginnings of Human Society

Geography and History

explain what tools are used to understand history, and explain the connections between geography and history

Read and discuss pp. 10 13

Pantomime words

Activities PowerPoint The Beginnings of Human Society

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Questions

1. What are the written and other recorded events of people called? ***
2. What is the time before history called? ***
3. Who are scientists who examine objects to learn about past peoples and cultures? ***
4. What do historians use to study about the past? ***
5. What are stories passed down by word of mouth? ***
6. What is the study of Earths surface and the processes that shape it called? ***
7. How is geography and history related? ***

Prehistory

discover how hunter-gatherers lived during the Stone Age, and learn about the beginning of farming.

Read and discuss pp. 16 21

Activities

Pantomine hunters-gathers, and farming in the New Stone Age

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Questions

1. What was a period of time during which early humans made lasting tools and weapons mainly from stone. ***
2. How many periods do archaeologists divide the Stone Age into? Name them. ***
3. Did people know how to farm during the Old Stone Age? ***
4. What did people do to survive during the Old Stone Age? ***
5. Why was the discovery of fire important to people? ***
6. Who are people who have no settled home called? ***

The Beginnings of Civilization

describe the advantages people gained from settling down in one place, describe the growth of early cities, and understand how the first civilizations formed and spread.

Read and discuss pp. 24 28

Activities

Graph Skills p. 25 26, make list of advantages of a settled life in Word

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Questions

1. What is supplying land with water from another place using a network of canals called? ***
2. Why was farming more advantageous than hunting and gathering? ***
3. What is a surplus? ***
4. How did hunting-gathering affect the number of children families had? ***
5. What happened to the population when families began farming instead of hunting and gathering?
6. Why were some people in the New Stone Age able to do work other than farming? ***
7. What is a worker who is especially skilled in crafting items by hand called? ***
8. Cities were likely to develop in areas that had these resources. Name three. ***
9. Where did the earliest cities develop? ***
10. How were farming villages different from early cities? Name three ways. ***
11. As populations grew what did governments do? Name four.
12. What is a society that has cities, a central government run by official leaders, and workers who specialize in various jobs called? ***
13. What marked the beginning of the Bronze Age? ***
14. What is bronze? ***
15. What made bronze so important to the people?
16. By 3500 BC what invention amazed people?
17. How did the wheel and axle help people who were traders? ***
18. How did ideas and new tools spread to other societies? ***
19. How did prosperity affect society?
20. What is a social class? ***
21. What type of social classes were there in early civilizations? ***

The Fertile Crescent

Land between Two Rivers

examine how geography made the rise of civilization in the Fertile Crescent possible, learn about Sumers first cities, and examine the characteristics of Sumerian religion.

Read and discuss pp. 34 39

Activities Use the map to locate Mesopotamia and highlight the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Chart the positive and negative affects of the rivers. Compare and contrast the cities of Sumer. Use Word.

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Questions

1. What is a scribe? ***
2. Why was a scribes job important in Sumer?
3. Where was Sumer located?
4. What drew people to settle in Mesopotamia?
5. Why was Sumer important to traders?
6. What does the word Mesopotamia mean? ***
7. What two rivers does Mesopotamia lie between? ***
8. Is Mesopotamia part of the Fertile Crescent? ***
9. What is the Fertile Crescent? ***
10. What helped make the Fertile Crescent one of the best places in Southwest Asia for growing crops?
11. Besides giving rich soil for crops what else did the rivers provide for the people? ***
12. How did flooding rivers affect the people who settled in Mesopotamia?
13. As farming succeeded in Mesopotamia what happened to the food supply? ***
14. What was the location of some of the earliest known cities?
15. Cities in Mesopotamia shared a common culture and language. Did they unite under a single ruler?
16. What is a city-state? ***
17. Did each Sumerian city act as a separate state?
18. What was the marketplace like in a Sumerian city?
19. What is a ziggurat? ***
20. Give a description of a ziggurat? ***
21. What is polytheism? ***
22. What does theism mean? ***
23. What is a myth? ***
24. How did Sumerians honor the gods?
25. What caused the fall of Sumer?
26. Who conquered Sumer around 2300 B.C.
27. What was the name of the King who united the Sumerian city-states? ***

Babylonia and Assyria

describe the two most important empires of Mesopotamia, explain what characterized the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, and understand how Babylonia was able to rise again after defeat.

Read and discuss pp. 42 46

Activities

Discuss the following proverb, You go and carry off the enemys land; the enemy comes and carries off your land. Study map on p. 43. Students give a descriptive narrative on the empires of Babylonia and Assyria.

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Questions

1. Who ruled Mesopotamia after the fall of Sumer?
2. Explain what this old proverb means. You go and carry off the enemys land: the enemy comes and carries off your land.
3. What were the two largest and most important Mesopotamian civilizations? ***
4. What is an empire? ***
5. What city was the center of the Babylonian empire? ***
6. What two things did the Babylonians and Assyrians have in common?
7. Who created the Babylonian Empire by uniting the cities of Sumer? ***
8. Under this mans rule, the Babylonians created a system of roads throughout the empire. ***
9. Groups of travelers are called ***
10. Another name for a market in a city where shoppers could buy cotton cloth from India and spices from Egypt?
11. Who conquered the city of Mari?
12. Did Hammurabis empire last?
13. Why did the Assyrians become skilled warriors?
14. Why did the Assyrians decide to attack?
15. By 650 B.C. how large was the Assyrian Empire?
16. What is the battering ram? ***
17. What was the capital of Assyria? ***
18. Why do we know so much about the Assyrian Empire?
19. Which two groups of people joined together to defeat the Assyrian Empire in 612 B.C.?
20. What became the center of the New Babylonian Empire?
21. Who rebuilt the city of Babylon which the Assyrians had destroyed?
22. Describe King Nebuchadnezzars palace?
23. Who did King Nebuchadnezzar build his garden for? ***
24. What type of advances in learning took place during the Chaldean rule? ***

The Legacy of Mesopotamia

explain the importance of Hammurabis Code, describe how the art of writing developed in Mesopotamia.

Read and discuss pp. 47 51

Activities

Students discuss the expression an eye for an eye in relation to the laws in Hammurabis Code. Use website http://www.upennmuseum.com/cuneiform.cgi to write name in cuneiform.

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1. What is an organized list of laws called? ***
2. Who ruled Babylonia from 1792 to 1750 B.C.?
3. This code contained 282 laws organized in categories such as trade, labor, property and family? ***
4. What idea was Hammurabis Code based on? ***
5. Did Hammurabis Code apply equally to all people? ***
6. Why was Hammurabis Code considered so important? ***
7. Describe some of Hammurabis laws? ***
8. When did writing first develop? ***
9. Why was writing developed? ***
10. Why was the job of a scribe such a valuable job? ***
11. What types of records did the scribes of Sumer keep? ***
12. What did the scribes of Sumer write on? ***
13. Where did the scribes get the clay to write on?
14. How did the people keep records before writing was invented?
15. What is cuneiform? ***
16. What does it mean that the Sumerians developed writing independently?

Mediterranean Civilization

explain how the sea power of the Phoenicians helped spread civilization throughout the Mediterranean area and describe major events in the history of the Israelites.

Read and discuss pp. 51 57

Activities

Use map to trace Phoenician Colonies, Study chart on p. 54

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Questions

1. Why were snails important to the Phoenicians? ***
2. Why was Tyre a wealthy city?
3. Besides snails used to dye cloth what other resource did the Phoenicians have? ***
4. Who controlled trade throughout the Mediterranean Sea? ***
5. What kept other people from competing for trade in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean?
6. What type of goods were sold at Phoenician markets?
7. How many symbols were there in the Phoenician alphabet?
8. What forms the basis of many alphabets today? ***
9. How did the alphabet affect trade? ***
10. How did trade affect the spread of the alphabet? ***
11. What group of people settled in the land south of Phoenicia?
12. Hebrews were later called ***
13. Stories about the Israelites can be found in the Hebrew Bible called the
14. When did Abraham live?
15. The Israelites trace their beginnings to this area of land.
16. What is monotheism?
17. Who taught the Israelites monotheism?
18. Mono is the Greek prefix for ***
19. The Torah says that God told Abraham to leave this land
20. Abraham led the people to this land.
21. What is a famine?
22. Why did the Israelites flee south to Egypt?
23. Why did the Egyptian King force the Israelites into labor?
24. Who led the Israelites out of Egypt?
25. What is the Exodus? ***
26. Where did the Israelites wander for 40 years?
27. What did God give the Israelites while in the desert?
28. Did Israelites ever return to Canaan?
29. As the Israelites moved north they united under their first king. Name this king.
30. Which King established the capital city in Jerusalem?
31. Who was Davids son?
32. After Solomons death the country was split into 2 kingdoms. Name them.
33. Who conquered the Israelites and gained control of Judah?
34. What does exile mean?
35. Why did the Assyrians exile the Israelites?
36. By 612 B.C. who conquered the Assyrians?
37. In 587 B.C. the King of Judah reveled against the Chaldeans. King Nebuchadnezzar responded by destroying this capital city.
38. King Nebuchadnezzar exiled the people of Judah to

Judaism

explain the basic beliefs of Judaism, and explain the effect Judaism has had on other religions.

Read and discuss pp. 60 64

Activities
Study map on p. 63, discuss how Judaism compares and contrasts with the beliefs of other peoples in the ancient world.

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Questions

1. What does the Torah do?
2. Name the first 5 books of the Torah? ***
3. Do Christians use the Books of the Torah?
4. How do Israelites relate history and religion?
5. How did Judaism differ from beliefs of other people?
6. What did God promise Abraham?
7. What is a covenant?
8. Who is Moses?
9. What is at the heart of Judaism?
10. How were women treated in Judaism?
11. Who are prophets?
12. What did the prophets tell the Israelites?
13. What happened to the Jews when the Romans drove the Israelites out of their homeland?
14. What is the Diaspora?
15. How did the Jews preserve their heritage?
16. What effect did Judaism have on other religions?

Ancient Egypt and Nubia

The Geography of the Nile

explain how the geography of the Nile changes as the river runs its course and describe the types of communities that first appeared along the Nile and how the Nile was first used for trade.

Read pp. 70 75

Activities

Students trace map of Egypt and identify specific points such as Nile River, Sahara Desert etc. Students begin PowerPoint presentation on Ancient Egypt. Slides should include the Nile River, Sahara Desert, Cataract, Delta, and Silt.

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Questions

1. Who wrote that that Egypt is the Gift of the Nile?
2. What is the worlds longest river? ***
3. About how long is the Nile River? ***
4. How many sources does the Nile River have? Name the sources.
5. Where do the Blue Nile and the White Nile meet?
6. The Nile River flows into this sea. ***
7. What is Nubia?
8. What are cataracts? ***
9. Why did the people in Lower Nubia have to live close to the river? ***
10. Did people in Upper Nubia farm?
11. Egypt is divided into Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt. What type of soil is on each side of the Nile River in Upper and Lower Egypt? ***
12. At the mouth of the Nile River, the river split into several streams and formed a delta. What is a delta? ***
13. What kind of soil does the Nile Delta have? ***
14. What is silt?***
15. Why is the land along the Nile ideal for farming? ***
16. Who is the god of the Nile? ***
17. Why did the ancient Egyptians call their land Kemet, the black land?
18. What was the red land? ***
19. What protected Egypt and Nubia from foreign attacks?
20. Was the land of Mesopotamia free from invasion like Egypt and Nubia?
21. When did settled farming communities begin to appear in Egypt and Nubia? ***
22. What grew as a result of the growth of farming communities? ***
23. Where did Egypts early farming communities settle? ***
24. What type of homes did the people build?
25. Why did the Nubians add fish and bird to their diet?
26. What river was used to transport goods? ***
27. Did Egypt have land trade routes? Explain. ***
28. What type of goods were traded? ***
29. Why didn't the Nubians use the Nile to trade? ***
30. What did the Nubians trade? ***

The Rulers of Egypt

describe the history of kingship in ancient Egypt, explain Egypts accomplishments during each of the three kingdom periods, and explain what characterized the rule of Egypt during the New Kingdom period.

Read and discuss pp. 76 81

Activities
Locate Upper and Lower Egypt. Continue PowerPoint on Ancient Egypt. Slides should include Pharaoh, dynasty, absolute power, regent, Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom, Hatsheput, Thutmose III.

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1. What is the title used by the kings of Egypt? ***
2. Who was the woman who took over the role as pharaoh and controlled the wealth and power of Egypt? ***
3. What is a series of rulers from the same family or ethnic group is called? ***
4. How many dynasties did Egypt have from 3100 B.C. until it was conquered in 332 B.C.?
5. Egypts dynasties were divided into three major time periods? Name them. ***
6. Who was the king who unified Upper and Lower Egypt? ***
7. What was the name of the city Menes built near present-day Cairo? ***
8. What is absolute power? ***
9. Who had absolute power over the people? ***
10. Who helped the pharaohs in making decisions? ***
11. Ancient Egyptians believed that their pharaohs were god-kings? Name two of these gods? ***
12. What was the Old Kingdom noted for?
13. What did the Old Kingdom pharaohs do?
14. What did the governors in the provinces do by the end of the Old Kingdom?
15. What did pharaohs of the Middle Kingdom do?
16. What happened by the end of the Middle Kingdom?
17. What event marked the start of the New Kingdom?
18. What did pharaohs of the New Kingdom do?
19. What made the Egyptians nearly unbeatable?
20. King TutanKhamen (King Tut) became a ruler when he was a child? How old was he when he died? ***
21. When was King Tuts tomb found? ***
22. In 1504 B.C. a child began his reign. His stepmother was appointed regent because of his age. Name this child. ***
23. What is someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule? ***
24. What was Thutmose IIIs stepmothers name?***
25. Was Hatshepsuts reign good for Egypt? ***
26. Name Hatshepsuts accomplishments? ***
27. What happened when Thutmose was old enough to rule? ***
28. What was Thutmose like as a ruler? ***
29. Name Thutmoses accomplishments? ***
30. What led to the decline of the New Kingdom?
31. Who was the Macedonian who conquered Egypt? ***
32. The Romans conquered Egypt and this Macedonian Queen was the last to rule Egypt? ***

Egyptian Religion

explain Egyptian gods and goddesses describe Egyptians beliefs in the afterlife, and discover how and why the pharaohs tombs were built.

Read and discuss pp. 82 -87

Activity

Eyewitness Technology p. 85 The Great Pyramid - Continue PowerPoint on Ancient Egypt. Slides should include Mummy, The Great Pyramid, Giza, and The Great Sphinx.

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Questions

1. What did Egyptians believe about the afterlife? ***
2. What did Egyptians believe about who controlled the workings of nature? ***
3. How did the Egyptians honor their gods? ***
4. How did the Egyptians depict their gods? ***
5. Who was the sun god? ***
6. Who was the chief god of the ancient Egyptians? ***
7. What did the Egyptians believe about god Amon-Re? ***
8. Who was the god of the living and the dead?
9. Who was worshipped as the great mother who protected her children?
10. Who was the sky god?
11. How did the ancient Egyptians think that they traveled to the afterlife? ***
12. Why did the ancient Egyptians bury their possessions with them? ***
13. What is a mummy? ***
14. What is mummification? ***
15. What is a pyramid? ***
16. When were most of the pyramids built? ***
17. What is the largest pyramid called? ***
18. Where was the Great Pyramid built? ***
19. How many stones were used to build the Great Pyramid? ***
20. About how much weight was each stone?
21. Why were pyramids found on the west bank of the Nile?
22. How did engineers set the pyramid square?
23. How did workers build the pyramids?
24. Why did the Egyptians build pyramids? ***
25. What is the Great Sphinx? ***
26. For more than 4,000 years what stood taller than any other human-made structure in the world? ***

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Ancient Egyptian Culture

explain about the everyday life of the ancient Egyptians, describe writing in ancient Egypt and explain advances made by the Egyptians in science and medicine.

Read and discuss pp. 90 95

Activities
Continue PowerPoint on Ancient Egypt. Slides should include Hieroglyphs, Papyrus, and Rosetta Stone, Science and Medicine of Ancient Egypt.

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Questions

1. How do we know so much about the ancient Egyptians?
2. Who was at the top of the social classes? ***
3. Who was part of the upper class? ***
4. Who was part of the middle class? ***
5. Who was at the bottom of the social classes? ***
6. Could a person in ancient Egypt rise to a higher class? How? ***
7. What happened to prisoners captured in war?
8. Which group was considered a separate class?
9. Did slaves have rights in ancient Egypt? What kind?
10. What kind of rights did slaves have in ancient Egypt? ***
11. What type of work did the peasants do? ***
12. What was the busiest season for Egypt's peasants? ***
13. What crops did the peasants harvest? ***
14. What rights did Egyptian women have? ***
15. What rights did noble women hold in ancient Egypt? ***
16. How do we know about the ancient Egyptians?
17. What is Egyptian writing called? ***
18. What is papyrus? ***
19. What is an early form of paper made from a reed found in the marshy areas of the Nile delta? ***
20. What is the plant called that is used to make paper called? ***
21. How many languages are on the Rosetta Stone? ***
22. Who unlocked the secret of the Rosetta Stone? ****
23. How would the ancient Egyptians know when the Nile River would flood? ***
24. Who are scientist who study the stars and other objects in the sky? ***
25. How was mathematics important to the ancient Egyptians?
26. How did the ancient Egyptians learn how to do surgeries?
27. What type of medicine did the ancient Egyptians have?
28. How did the Egyptian learning affect the Greeks and the Romans? ***

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Ancient India

The Indus and Ganges River Valleys

describe Indias geographic setting, explain life in an ancient city of the Indus River valley, and explain the rise of a new culture in the Indus and the Ganges river valleys.

Read and discuss pp. 108-113

Activities

Use map of India to locate geographic features including the Ganges River, Indus River, Indian Ocean, Himalayas. Study monsoon map on p. 109.

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Questions

1. What mountains separate India from the rest of the world? ***
2. What is a subcontinent? ***
3. Name the bodies of water that surround India? ***
4. What is a monsoon? ***
5. Describe a winter monsoon?
6. Describe a summer monsoon?
7. What happens if the monsoon is late or weak?
8. What happens if the monsoon is brings too much rain?
9. What is the Hindu Kish mountain range?
10. Where do great rivers begin? ***
11. The Indus River crosses the Himalayas and empties into this body of water?
12. The Ganges River flows and empties into this body of water?
13. Why is farming possible in northern India?
14. What two cities flourished in the Indus River Valley?
15. Where are Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro located today?
16. What do the ruins of Mohenjo-Daro tell us about the ancient city? ***
17. What is a citadel? ***
18. How did people live in Mohenjo-Daro?
19. Why did people leave the Indus Valley?
20. Who were the newcomers to the Indus Valley region?
21. What does Aryan mean? ***
22. What does migrate mean?
23. What helped the Aryans to gain power?
24. Most of what we know about early Aryan life comes from the religious books. What are these books called? ***
25. What does the word Vedas mean? ***
26. The Aryans organized their society around three classes. Name these classes.
27. What is a Brahman? ***
28. What is the caste system? Explain in detail. ***

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Hinduism in Ancient India

describe the beginning of Hinduism, explain about the teachings of Hinduism, and examine the practice of Hinduism?

Read and discuss pp. 116 120

Activities

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Questions

1. How is Hinduism different from other major world religions? (Name three) ***
2. Hindus believe in one single spiritual power which is in everything called ***
3. Name the three important Hindu gods.
4. What do Hindus believe about reincarnation? ***
5. What is dharma? ***
6. What does the word yoga mean? ***
7. What types of yoga are there? ***

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The Beginnings of Buddhism

explain Buddha and his teachings, describe how Buddhism was received inside and outside India.

Read and discuss pp. 121 125

Activities

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1. Describe the life of Buddha?
2. Who is Siddhartha Gautama? ***
3. How did Gautama try to understand suffering? ***
4. The word Buddha means ***
5. What is the Eightfold Path? ***
6. Why did Buddha believe humans suffered?
7. What is nirvana?
8. What do Buddhist believe about equality?
9. Who are missionaries?
10. Did Buddhism remain in India?
11. What types of beliefs do Hindus and Buddhist share?
12. Who carried Buddhas message to people of other lands? ***
13. What countries have Buddhist?

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The Maurya Empire

explain the rise of the Maurya Empire, and describe the effects of Asokas leadership on the Maurya Empire.

Read pp. 128 132

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Questions

1. Who founded Indias Maurya Empire? ***
2. Whose power extended over most of northern and central India?
3. Chandragupta was guided by this basic belief?
4. How did Chandragupta keep order in his empire?
5. Why was Chandragupta fearful for his life?
6. How did Chandragupta improve his empire during his reign? ***
7. Who was Chandraguptas grandson?
8. How was Asoka like his grandfather Chandragupta? ***
9. What was a turning point in Asokas life? ***
10. How did Asoka change?
11. What does convert mean?
12. How did Asoka rule as a Buddhist ruler? ***
13. What is tolerance?
14. What happened to the Maurya Empire after Asokas death?

Ancient China

The Geography of Chinas River Valleys

describe the geography of ancient China, explain early civilization in China and learn about the importance of family ties in early Chinese society.

Read pp. 138 143

Activities

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1. Why were dragons important to the Chinese culture?
2. What type of climate and landforms does China have?
3. What affect did geography have on China?
4. What is the name of the second longest river in China that is also called the Yellow River?
5. Why is the Yellow River yellow?
6. Why is the Huang called Chinas Sorrow?
7. What is a dike?
8. What was the name of the first dynasty in China?
9. Name two accomplishments of the Shang Dynasty?
10. Who took over the Shang Dynasty? How long did they rule?
11. What was the mandate of heaven?
12. What was more important than the individual and nation in Chinese culture?
13. Explain what traditional families were like in ancient China?
14. Who had the most authority in an ancient Chinese family?
15. What were the three obediences?
16. How are Chinese names different from American names?
17. What was the name of the famous Chinese thinker whom the Chinese called Kong fu Zi?

Confucius and His Teachings

describe the life of Confucius, explain the teachings of Confucius, and describe the influence Confucianism had on Chinese Society.

Read and discuss pp. 146 150

Activities

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1. Who was Confucius?
2. What did the Chinese call Confucius?
3. Describe Confucius early life?
4. Who was considered the first teacher of ancient China?
5. Did Confucius consider his teachings to be new?
6. What is philosophy?
7. How do we know what Confucius taught?
8. Regarding society what was Confucius goal?
9. What did Confucius think about respecting others?
10. What is Taoism?
11. Who is Laozi?
12. What did the Taoists believe in?
13. What is the civil service?
14. What was the Chinese merit system?
15. Why was it difficult for poor men to work in the civil service?

Warring Kingdoms

describe the rise of the Qin dynasty, describe how Emperor Shi Huandgi attempted to unify the economy and culture of China.

Read pp. 151 155

Activities

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Questions

1. Who kept watch at the tomb of Chinas first emperor, Shi Huangdi?
2. What did Shi Huangdi do to unify China?
3. What does the name Shi Huangdi mean?
4. Where does the word China come from?
5. How did Shi Huangdi choose to strengthen China?
6. How did Shi Huangdi choose to protect China from its enemies?
7. How did Shi Huandi put down rebellions?
8. How did Shi Huandi organize government in China?
9. What is currency?
10. Name Shi Huangdis economic and cultural improvements.
11. How did Shi Huangdi restrict the freedoms of the government?
12. What happened upon the death of shi Huandgi?
13. Who helped to overthrow the Qin dynasty?
14. Liu Bang became the first emperor of this dynasty?
15. What did the Han rulers know that they needed in order to have a successful government?
16. Under which leader did the Han dynasty reach its greatest power?
17. What is the meaning of Wudis name?
18. What were the accomplishments of Wudi?
19. Describe the end of the Han Empire?
20. What are warlords?
    
    

Achievements of Ancient China

describe the Silk Road, explain the Han dynastys respect for tradition and learning, describe the important advances in technology that were made in China during the Han dynasty.

Read pp. 158 162

Activity

Use map on p. 61 The Silk Road, make a chart of the developments in the Arts, Medicine and Technology.

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Questions

1. What is the Silk Road?
2. How did the Silk Road affect trade?
3. What were some new foods introduced to the Chinese?
4. How long was the Silk Road?
5. How were goods traded on the Silk Road?
6. How did the Silk Road get its name?
7. How was silk made?
8. Why did Buddhism become a major religion in China?
9. How did respect for learning flourish during the Han dynasty?
10. Who is Sima Qian?
11. What was Simas Quinas work called?
12. Name Chinese developments in the Arts?
13. Name Chinese developments in Medicine?
14. Name Chinese developments in Technology?
15. What did Chinese write on before they invented paper?
16. How was paper made?
17. Today what do people of China call themselves?

Early Greek Civilization

describe the geography of Greece, learn about the rise of civilization in ancient Greece, and describe the beginnings of government of ancient Greece.

Read pp. 168 173

Activities

Use map to locate Ancient Greece. Identify bodies of water, mountains, and cities. Students begin PowerPoint presentation on Ancient Greece. Slides should include peninsula, acropolis, aristocrat, democracy, Minoan Civilization, Mycenaeans, Trojan War, Iliad and Odyssey, and Dark Ages.

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Questions

1. Greece is a peninsula made up of smaller peninsulas and islands. True or False.
2. What is a peninsula?
3. What is the major landform of Greece?
4. What portion of Greece is good for growing crops?
5. Why were so many Greeks traders and sailors?
6. Why was it difficult for Greeks from different communities to meet each other?
7. Name two ancient peoples that made important contributions to Greek Civilizations.
8. What was the name of the Island that the Minoans lived on?
9. What bodies of water surrounded Crete?
10. Which people did the Minoans trade with?
11. What do we know about the ancient Minoan people?
12. Where is the city of Knossos located?
13. What did the findings at the palace at Knossos tell us about the people?
14. Who most likely took over the Minoan civilization?
15. What did the Mycenaeans control at the height of their power around 1400 B.C.?
16. What was the difference in the type of power between the Minoans and the Mycenaeans?
17. Where was the city of Troy located?
18. What was the trick that Greece used to conquer Troy?
19. Explain how the Greek warriors used the Trojan horse to conquer Troy.
20. What is an epic?
21. Name the two epic poems of the Trojan War.
22. Who gets credit for writing the Iliad and the Odyssey?
23. Why were these epics important to the Greeks?
24. What were the Dark Ages like for Greece?
25. The Greek Dark Ages were not completely bleak. What were some positive things that happened during that time?
26. What is an acropolis?
27. Around what year did cities begin to form in ancient Greece?
28. Where did these cities develop?
29. Were the cities united or independent?
30. Who is an aristocrat?
31. What types of thing did the Greek aristocrat have?
32. What types of things did Greeks trade?
33. What types of things did the middle class have?
34. Why did military strength change hands from the aristocrats to the middle class?
35. What was a result of the shift in power from the aristocrats to the middle class?
36. What is a tyrant?
37. What type of government finally developed in ancient Greece?
38. What is a democracy?
39. Who was Solon and what did he do?
40. Did everyone in Athens benefit from democracy?
41. Who could not take part in democracy in Athens?

Religion, Philosophy, and the Arts

discover what characterized the Golden Age of Athens, learn about the religious beliefs of the ancient Greeks, and find out about science, philosophy, and the arts in ancient Greece.

Read and discuss pp. 174 180

Activities

Continue PowerPoint on Ancient Greece. Slides should include Golden Age of Athens, Pericles, Twelve Olympians, Zeus, Oracles, Philosophers, Sophists, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, Parthenon, tragedy, Sophocles, Aristophanes.

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Questions

1. What is the name of the leader of Athens who said, Our constitution favors the many instead of the few.
2. What city-state ended Athens golden age of accomplishment.
3. Philosophy and the arts flourished during this time period?
4. What took place in Athens that served as a model for future civilizations?
5. How did Athens grow rich during the Golden Age?
6. What is tribute?
7. During Athens Golden Age who was the most powerful man in Greece?
8. Give a description of Pericles?
9. Name one of Pericles reforms?
10. Who were the Twelve Olympians?
11. How did the Greeks honor their gods and goddesses?
12. Who was the king of the gods?
13. Where did he rule from?
14. Name a mythical hero who fought bravely during the Trojan War.
15. How many gods did each city-state honor?
16. How did the city-states honor Zeus?
17. What were oracles?
18. Why did the Greeks visit the oracles?
19. Who did the Heads of state visit to seek advice? Where did they go? What importance did it have on the Greeks?
20. What did most Greeks believe was the source of all natural events?
21. What is philosophy?
22. What did philosophers believe?
23. Who were Sophists?
24. What did philosophers think about the Sophists?
25. Which three philosophers had lasting effect on modern learning and thinking?
26. What did Socrates do to anger the Athenians?
27. Why was Socrates brought to trial? What was the result?
28. How do we know so much about Socrates?
29. What did Plato write?
30. What did Plato believe that society should be made up of?
31. What was the name of Platos school?
32. Who did Plato teach?
33. What did Aristotle believe about knowledge?
34. What is the name of the school that Aristotle founded?
35. Name two visual arts?
36. Why are the Greeks known as the first playwrights?
37. What was the religious center of Athens?
38. What is considered the most magnificent work of Greek architecture?
39. Describe the Parthenon?
40. What was the goal of Greek art?
41. Who were the first people to write dramas, or stories written to be performed by actors?
42. What types of plays did the Greeks produce?
43. What is a tragedy?
44. Name two important authors of Greek tragedies?
45. What is a comedy?
46. Name a well-known Greed comic playwright.

Daily Life in Athens

describe public life in Athens, explain how the people of Athens spent their time at home, and describe the practice of slavery and its effects in ancient Greece.

Read and discuss pp. 181 187

Activities

Continue PowerPoint on Ancient Greece. Slides should include Athens, agora, vendors, Athenian homes, Athenian women, slavery, and lives of slaves.

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Questions

1. Describe a day in the life of a Greek boy.
2. What is an agora?
3. The Acropolis was the center of Athens religious life. What was the center of its public life?
4. What did men discuss at the agora?
5. Who are vendors?
6. What type of items did the Greeks buy?
7. What types of buildings could you find in the Agora?
8. Describe a Greek home.
9. What did the Greeks eat?
10. Why were so many men at the agora?
11. How did women spend their day?
12. What is slavery?
13. How did people get to be slaves?
14. Describe the life of a slave?

Sparta and Athens

describe what it was like to live in the ancient city of Sparta, explain the Persian invasion of Greece, and examine other conflicts faced by the Athenian Empire.

Read pp. 188 193

Activities

Continue PowerPoint on Ancient Greece. Slides should include Helots, Spartan boy, Spartan girl, Cyrus the Great, Battle of Marathon, Peloponnesian War, plague, and blockade.

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Questions

1. What is Sparta?
2. Describe life in Sparta compared to life in Athens?
3. What was the one basic rule of Sparta?
4. Who were the helots?
5. Describe life for a Spartan boy.
6. Describe life for a Spartan girl.
7. Who founded the Persian Empire?
8. Describe the Battle of Marathon.
9. What was the Peloponnesian War?
10. Who is Thucydides?
11. What is a plague?
12. What is a blockade?

The Spread of the Greek Culture

learn how Alexander the Great built his empire, find out about the age of Hellenism, when Greek culture spread to man other parts of the world.

Read and Discuss pp. 196 200

Activities

Continue PowerPoint on Ancient Greece. Slides should include barbarian, Alexander the Great, Hellenistic Age, Greek Culture in Egypt, Euclid, and Eratosthenes.

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Questions

1. Where was King Philip from?
2. Who was King Philips son?
3. How did the Macedonians and Greeks feel about each other?
4. What is a Barbarian?
5. Who was Alexanders tutor?
6. Who united Macedonia and conquered one Greek city-state after another?
7. Want happened to King Philip before he was able to attack Persia?
8. What does assassinated mean?
9. Who replaced Philip as King?
10. What areas did Alexander conquer?
11. What did Alexander call many of the cities which he captured?
12. Why did the Greek culture spread throughout vast areas beyond Greece?
13. What happened to Alexanders empire after his death?
14. What does Hellenistic mean?
15. Describe a Hellenistic kingdom?
16. What was the greatest of all the Hellenistic cities?
17. Why was Alexandria, Egypt famous?
18. What was the learning capital of the Greek world?
19. Who extended the branch of mathematics called geometry and helped explain squares, angles, triangles, cubes, and cones.
20. Who calculated the distance around the earth?

Ancient Rome

The Roman Republic

describe geography and early settlement of Rome, examine characteristics of the Roman Republic and why it was founded, and describe the fall of the Roman Empire.

Read and discuss pp. 210 -215

Questions

1. Who were the two main characters in the myth about the founding of Rome?
2. What advantages did the first people who settled the 7 hills in Rome have?
3. Name the River that flows through Rome into the Tyrrhenian Sea?
4. Who ruled Rome from 600 B.C. until they were conquered by the Romans in 509 B.C.?
5. What did the Romans borrow from the Greeks and the Etruscans?
6. What type of government did the Romans create?
7. What is a republic?
8. Who led the Roman republic?
9. What is a consul?
10. What was the senate?
11. What is a Patrician?
12. What is a plebeian?
13. What is a veto?
14. When did the Romans agree to have a dictator?
15. What is a dictator?
16. How long did it take Rome to conquer most of Italy?
17. Why were plebeians without jobs after the Roman conquests?
18. What was the Law of the Tables?
19. Which groups of people did the Romans conquers?
20. Who came to power as the Roman Republic was declining?
21. Who conquered Gaul?
22. What happened in 49 B.C. between Caesar and the Senate?
23. Who became dictator of the Roman world in 48 B.C.?
24. Who became dictator for life in 44 B.C.?
25. Why was Julius Caesar killed on March 15, 44 B.C.? Who killed him?
26. Who took Julius Caesars place?
27. What title did Octavian receive?
28. What does the title Augustus mean?
29. Who was the first Emperor of Rome?

Activities

 

1. Read and do the questions in quizlet. 20 points
2.  Draw, trace or print out a blank map of Italy - label bodies of water, mountains, rivers, major cities etc.  15 points
3. On the map of Italy name geographical advantages that Rome enjoyed. (p. 211) 10 points
4. Create a poster with three images of Etruscan art. 10 points
5. Write a short paragraph about what ideas the Romans took from the Etruscans 15 points

 

 

 

The Roman Empire

describe the rule of the Roman Empire and the empires conquered peoples, examine the influence of Greece and Rome, explain the Roman advances in architecture, technology and science, describe the laws of Rome.

Read and discuss pp. 218 223

Questions

1. Who wrote the poem the Aeneid? What did it say?
2. What is Pax Romana?
3. Under whose rule did Pax Romana begin?
4. How long did Pax Romana last?
5. Why did Augustus Caesar begin working with the Senate?
6. How did the Romans divide up their empire?
7. What is a province?
8. How did the Romans treat the people they conquered?
9. Name two bad emperors after the death of Augustus Caesar?
10. Who was the greatest of the 5 Good Emperors?
11. What did Hadrian do that he was considered the greatest of the emperors?
12. Who was the last of the 5 good emperors?
13. What type of religion did the Romans have?
14. Name Roman gods.
15. How did the Greeks and the Romans value learning?
16. What did the Romans do in order to build heavier and stronger buildings than the Greeks?
17. What type of building materials did the Romans use?
18. What is concrete?
19. What is the coliseum?
20. What was the Roman road system like?
21. What is the saying that speaks about Roman Roads?
22. What is an aqueduct?
23. Describe a Roman aqueduct?
24. Who was Cicero and what did he say about laws?
25. Who is Justinian?
26. Name some of Justinians laws?

Roman Daily Life

describe the social classes that existed in ancient Rome, explain what characterized family life in ancient Rome, and examine the practice of slavery in Rome.

Read and discuss pp. 224 228

Questions

1. Describe Rome had the height of its glory?
2. What was the life of the rich like in ancient Rome?
3. What is a Villa?
4. What was the life of the poor like?
5. Why was grain provided to the poor?
6. What was a Roman circus?
7. What took place in the Roman Circus?
8. What is a gladiator?
9. What did the philosopher think of the Roman circus?
10. How did the government support families?
11. Describe the power of the husband and wife in ancient Rome?
12. Describe the life of a slave in ancient Rome?

Christianity and the Roman Empire

describe the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire, describe the spread of Christianity and its effect on the Roman Empire.

Read and discuss pp. 229 233

Question

1. Who was the founder of Christianity?
2. Who conquered the Jewish homeland of Judea?
3. What did the Jews believe about a messiah?
4. Why did an opposition to Roman rule begin?
5. Under whose reign in Judea was Herod born?
6. What did Jesus preach about God?
7. Why was Jesus put to death?
8. Why did people begin calling Jesus Christ?
9. Who is Paul?
10. What are epistles?
11. Why were Christians considered enemies of the empire?
12. What happened to Christians under the emperor Nero?
13. Who did Nero blame for the burning of Rome?
14. Why did Christianity appeal to many people?
15. What happened to Christians under the emperor Diocletian?

The Fall of Rome

describe what caused the decline of the Roman Empire, describe how the Roman government came to accept Christianity, and examine the events that marked the defeat of Rome.

Read and discuss pp. 236 240

Questions

1. Who was Constantine?
2. Why did Constantine become a Christian?
3. Under whose rule did the Roman Empire begin to decline?
4. In what ways were the rulers of Rome corrupt?
5. What is a mercenary?
6. What disadvantages were there in having mercenaries defending the empire?
7. Why was the size of the empire a disadvantage?
8. What types of economic problems were faced by the Roman Empire?
9. Why did the price of food go up?
10. What is inflation?
11. Which emperor tried to stop the decline of the Roman Empire?
12. Who divided the empire into two parts?
13. What became the official religion of the Roman Empire?
14. Where did Constantine move the capital to?
15. What was Byzantium renamed?
16. Where is Constantinople located?
17. Who invaded Rome in the 400s?