1. Unit 2: Ancient River Valley Civilizations

2. A look ahead: Today: Tue/Wed: Civilizations Stations!
Quick review of old content
Notes on new content: Getting the BIG picture
Tue/Wed: Civilizations Stations!
Thur/Fri: Map quiz on River Valley Civilizations

3. Review:
What is a civilization?
(Type your ideas here.)

4. What led to the rise of civilizations?
Review:
What led to the rise of civilizations?
(Type your ideas here.)

5. Review:
What were some of the earliest civilizations? ? ? ? ?

6. Zoom Out:

7. In what time period did River Valley civilizations exist?
Setting the scene:
In what time period did River Valley civilizations exist? ?

8. Why are these civilizations centered around rivers?
Question:
Why are these civilizations centered around rivers?

9. Answer:
“______________” These river valleys offered __________for agriculture. Also, they tended to be in locations easily _____________by nomadic peoples.

10. Irrigation ?

11. __________:

12. Zoom Out:

13. Fertile Crescent:
Fertile – capable of producing ________
Crescent –

14. Other early civilizations: _?
Settled between the __________and the ________
What ancient city was here? ?

15. Other early civilizations: ?
Settled along the Mediterranean Coast (______)
Great ____!

16. Other early civilizations: ?
Located on the ____ (__) Nile River

17. Let’s get…

18. BIG PICTURE Question:
What were the social, political, and economic characteristics of early civilizations?

19. Ancient Society: _________
__________: sequence of rulers from the same family
Ex: Kings, Pharaohs
Rigid _______: Roles of individuals in society are set in a hierarchy (order)
_____ = acceptable

20. Ancient Politics: World’s first ____ - Ex: city-states
Centralized government
Written _______

21. Ancient Economics:
_________ = production, distribution, and consumption of goods/services
_________ due to…
- Better tools (bronze, iron)
- Plow
- Irrigation
More _________ (Phoenicians)

22. Ancient Religion: Mostly _________ (believed in many gods)
- Poly = many
- Theism = gods
Hebrews practiced the first _________ religion (Judaism)

23. Ancient Language/Writing:
_________ : earliest written symbols
- _________ (Egypt)

24. Ancient Language/Writing:
______ (Sumer)

25. Ancient Language/Writing:
First alphabet developed by _________

26. Next time:
Diving in deeper