1. Guided Reading Open your guided reading for me to check.
Discuss the questions, thoughts, and connections you wrote in your my thoughts section.
Decide on one interesting idea that you can connect or contrast to the other civilizations. Be prepared to say why.

2. Comparison Assignment
Consider the development of state building in the period of the Classical Empires of Rome, Han, Persia, Mauryan, Gupta. Gather evidence about two of these empires’ techniques of imperial administration and show, in a graphic organizer, the similarities and differences in how rulers of two classical empires used legal systems and bureaucracies to run their governments.
Your grade will be based on:
Clarity and creativity of graphic organizer: 10 points
Accuracy: 10 points
Multiple sources (at least two different books): 10 points
Thoroughness: 10 points

3. Guided Reading # Pages 272-282
Vocabulary to watch for, understand, and remember
Popul Vuh
Tikal
Pyramid of the sun
Sipan
Civilizations that were influenced or did the influencing
Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Norte Chico, Chavin, Moche, Wari, Tiwanaku, Inca, Aztec
Guiding Questions: Answer these completely, in your own words, in your reading section
1. Compare the five civilizations in terms of Architecture, Products (food, technology, etc), Networks (Trade/expansion), Cities (describe them, don’t just name them), Beliefs and values.

4. Guided Reading #5: Americas
Each Purple Civilization
(5)
Architecture
Products (food, technology, etc)
Networks:
Trade/
expansion
Cities (describe them, don’t just name them)
Beliefs and values

5. Guided Reading Open your guided reading for me to check.
Discuss the questions, thoughts, and connections you wrote in your my thoughts section.
Decide on one question or topic that you need clarification on or that you would like to extend

6. Mesoamerica and South America
10000 BCE
600 CE
Clovis Point culture
Monte Verde: BP

7. Olmecs: Mother civilization?
1775– 400 BCE: “Rubber people”
City-States ruled by priest kings (never unified)
3 main cities: La Venta
Laguna de los Cerros
San Lorenzo

8. Olmecs: Mother civilization?
1775– 400 BCE: “Rubber people”
Shamanism:
Art with images of Jaguars
Giant stone heads lining streets
Step Pyramids (first ones to do it)
Calendar system, but no writing

9. Olmecs: Mother civilization?
Clear evidence of trade with smaller, non-Olmec sites Blending of ideas from Northern Meso-America with Olmec ideas Problem with cities on top of cities

10. 6th period questions: Go more in depth on trade and expansion
Expound on Moche Networks
Discussion on the cactus juice
Expound on beliefs and values– specific religion/belief

11. Maya

12. Bantu Migrations Climate changes in the Sahara started the migration
6000 BCE
100 CE
Climate changes in the Sahara started the migration
The development of agriculture and iron gave the Bantu the advantage over hunter-gatherers living in the region
Exceptions: Batwa
Agriculture and Population growth

13. Bantu Migrations Alternatives to Empire: Rarely built large cities
Exception: Zimbabwe
Mostly practiced ancestor worship
Established trade and marriage within Bantu culture
Left no written records

14. Bantu Migrations So how do we know? Diffusion
Archaeology: artifacts show a shared culture
Language study: Glottochronology

15. Overall Effects of Bantu Migrations
“Bantu migrations had an enormous impact on Africa’s economic, cultural, and political practices.”
Influenced skills: growing crops (adapting and spreading crops), metallurgy for tools and weapons
Influenced culture: ancestor worship, ideas of states, and language
Influenced environment: land cultivation, domestication