Unit OneChapters 1-6

Honors World History

Beemon

Standard

• SSWH1 The student will analyze the origins, structures, and interactions of complex societies in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean from 3500 BCE to 500 BCE. • Describe the development of Mesopotamian societies; include

the religious, cultural, economic, and political facets of society, with attention to Hammurabi’s law code.

• Describe the relationship of religion and political authority in Ancient Egypt.

• Explain the development of monotheism; include the concepts developed by the ancient Hebrews, and Zoroastrianism. Describe early trading networks in the Eastern Mediterranean; include the impact Phoenicians had on the Mediterranean World.

• Explain the development and importance of writing; include cuneiform, hieroglyphics, and the Phoenician alphabet.

Day One

First Ten

• Turn in your parent sheet to the basket if you have it signed. Remember, I want this by tomorrow (Friday).

• Syllabus Review

Work Session

• PPT Notes with SPICE chart

• Hammurabi's Code

Last Ten

• Pick up a copy of an excerpt of Hammurabi’s Code. Read it tonight for homework. Feel free to mark/highlight on your copy. You will have questions concerning the document on Friday.

Day Two

First Ten

• Turn in your parent sheet to the basket. It is due today. Also, please add your name to the notebook list on the board if you have yours ready for me to check.

• Pick up a worksheet and a sentence strip from the front desk and follow the directions at the top of the sheet. Record your sentence on your sentence strip. You may want to do it in pencil first.

• While you are doing this I will be checking your HW from last night – have it out on your desk please.

Hook

• Answer the questions on the back of the sheet.

• Let’s discuss!

• Cornell Notes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t_Vzeq5L3g

Summary – Chapter One

• CE and BCE – Do you know what this means?

• The study of early human remains and artifacts helps in understanding our place in human history.• What is an artifact?• What is culture?

• Stone Age - Ice Age • Paleolithic Age – 2.5 million to 8000 BCE – Nomads –

hunter/gatherer• Neolithic Age – 8000 BCE to 3000 BCE – Agricultural revolution

• Modern Humans• Neanderthals – resourcefulness and social customs – vanished

30,000 years ago• Cro-Magnons – Migration – Modern human

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfBSB9iol3w

Summary – Chapter Two

• What makes a civilization? • The earliest civilization in Asia arose in

Mesopotamia and organized into city-states.

• Fertile Crescent – Mesopotamia – Tigris & Euphrates – Sumerians settle here in 3300 BCE (modern day Iraq)• Why here?

• Pros and Cons of location? In order to fix issues necessity for leadership – Sumer

• Akkadians (2300 BCE) Babylonians (1894 BCE)

Characteristics of a

Civilization

Specialized

Workers

Record Keeping

Advanced Technolog

y

Advanced Cities

Complex Institutio

ns

Mesopotamian Societies

• Religious

• Polytheism gods controlled the various forces of nature humans were servants to gods ziggurat bleak/grim afterlife

• Cultural• Kings, land of holders, and some priests made up the highest level in

Sumerian society Wealthy merchants ranked next The vast majority ordinary Sumerians people worked with their hands in fields and workshops lowest level of Sumerian society were the slaves

• Economic

• Bartering, long distance trade over desert traded agriculture surplus: wheat, barley, dates, veggies, imported what they didn‘t have like stone and wood

• Political

• Sumer was not united divided into warring city-states rivaled each other which led to the emergence of warrior-kings to provide protection DYNASTY ruler was servant to the gods and led ceremonies meant to please them POLYTHEISM

Sumerian social classes

Kings, landowners

, and priests Wealthy

merchants

Workers (agricultural – artisans)

Slaves

Sumerian Advancements

• Cuneiform/Scribes

• Wheel – for trade

• Arithmetic and Geometry – Number system based on 60

• 12 month calendar

• Art Focused on gods

• Ziggurat

• Literature – Epic of Gilgamesh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sohXPx_XZ6Y

Hammurabi’s Code• Hammurabi was a Babylonian king who

reigned from 1792-1750 BCE.

• Hammurabi expanded his empire (Babylon – city-state) and united the southern Euphrates River area of Mesopotamia.

• His law code, a collection of 282 laws and standards, stipulated rules for commercial interactions and set fines and punishments to meet the requirements of justice.

• Hammurabi's Code was proclaimed at the end of his reign and carved onto a massive, finger-shaped black stone stela (pillar) that was looted by later invaders and rediscovered in 1901 by a French archaeological team in present-day Iran.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDALXORbtR4

Ancient Egyptians

• Horrible Histories - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9ALSefBc7E

• Based on our discussion of the Ancient Mesopotamians, what similarities and differences do you see based upon your prior knowledge of the Ancient Egyptians?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9ALSefBc7E

Egypt

Characteristics of Egypt

• Environment: • Nile flooding was predictable • Natural barriers to invaders – desert • Nile was important for trade and transportation

• Political:• Pharaohs ruled kingdom AS gods• Pharaohs had pyramids constructed through the

use of slaves

• Science and Technology:• Hieroglyphics, pyramids, mathematics and

geometry, and medicine

Last Ten

• Absent Student – If a student was absent today, how would you …• Explain the MAJOR similarities and differences

between ancient civilizations of the River Valley Systems.

Mesopotamia Egypt