1. Bellringer 8-12-11 Get your Green Folder!!
What does Culture mean? Take a second to think about what makes up culture. Write One Paragraph (5 Sentences) to explain your answer. Give an example of a culture and things you think make it up.
An example would be Modern Latin American culture and some characteristics would be family units, Spanish/Portuguese, and Catholicism.

2. Geography & History of the World
Unit One: Global Hearths

3. Essential Questions
How did the developments in agricultural techniques and the specialization of workers lead to the development of lasting civilizations?

4. What do we mean by “Global Hearth”
Place of Origin
Culture
Heartland and Innovation Center
Agriculture
Domestication of Plants and Animals

5. What is Culture? What make culture? What is culture to you? Attitude
Families
Behavior
Language
Beliefs
Ways of Life
What is culture to you?

6. Civilization – What’s that?
Factors of Civilization
-Cities
-Specialization
-Institutions
-Records
-Technology

7. Unit One Vocabulary Terms
Prehistory Polytheism Artifact Hammurabi Paleolithic Pharaoh Neolithic Nile River Nomadic Mummification Civilization Hieroglyphics Mesopotamia Ramses the Great Specialization

8. Bellringer 8-15-11 Get your folder!!
Before written records, what type of information can historians collect on ancient societies? What can this information tell us about these societies?

9. Human Origins Prehistory -Africa -Artifacts -No records Stone Age
-Paleolithic: Nomadic
-Neolithic: farming

10. Early Human Migration

11. Effects of Agriculture
Benefits of farming
-Food supply
-Settlements
- What do we get from settlements?
River Settlements
-Why?
-Fertile soil
-Travel/trade

12. Mesopotamia: “Fertile Crescent”
Factors of Civilization
-Cities
-Specialization
-Institutions
-Records
-Technology
Babylon: First Empire
Code of Hammurabi

13. The Code in Cuneiform

14. The Fertile Crescent

15. Bellringer- 8/16/11 Grab your folder!!
Do you like the new dress code this year? Why or why not? Is there anything that could be done differently?

16. Mesoamerica- Maya Factors of Civilization -Cities -Specialization
-Institutions
-Records
-Technology

18. Indus River Valley Factors of Civilization -Cities -Specialization
-Institutions
-Records
-Technology

20. Bellringer 8-17-11 Grab your folder!!
Why is knowing how to use a map important and what skills are required to properly use one? What role does geography play in history?
LAST CALL FOR VOCAB

21. Bellringer 8-18-11 Grab your folder!!
Come up with 15words dealing with ancient Egypt in a list form. Why did you pick these words? What do they deal with?

22. Egypt and the Nile

23. Ancient Egypt Nile River - “Gift of the Nile” -Inundation -Worship
-Source of life and renewal

24. Ancient Egypt Factors of Civilization -Cities -Specialization
-Institutions
-Records
-Technology

25. Cities Thebes (Luxor) Large Urban Centers Many throughout the region
Most along the Nile
Trade
With other cities and other regions

26. Records Cave Paintings Hieroglyphics -Symbols as ideas (Pictograph)
-Rosetta stone

27. Rosetta Stone

28. Specialization
Same as always…
Embalming

29. Bellringer 8-19-11 Grab your folder!!
Current Event(Maybe)- If there is not Internet be thinking about things happening in the world
Find an article on a current event happening in the world and write a 1 paragraph summery and a 1 paragraph response to the article. Topic may include things such as the latest riots in London, debt, and social issues affecting the world.
Trusted Sites include: BBC News, NPR, CNN, FOX, WSJ, The Economist, and Huffington Post

31. Institutions Government Religion Pharaoh- was a God Priests and Nobles
Also the same as always…
Amon-Re-Osiris- Isis
Life After death

32. Technology Knowledge -Calendar -Medicine -Math (engineering) -Sphinx
-Pyramids

33. Sphinx & the Great Pyramid

34. The Sphinx

35. Bellringer 8-22-11 Grab your folder
Choose one of the civilizations we talked about and show how it meets the 5 factors of civilization. And give the most interesting thing you learned about that civilization.

36. Civilization Project! Get out your netbooks Go to Mr. Cain’s Website
Find the Civilizations Project