1. UTILIZING VOCABULARY SKILLS TO HELP BRING CONTEXT TO THE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS WORD ASSOCIATION Do now: In groups, work on the word association to determine a Common theme amongst important vocabulary

2. WHAT DO AL OF THESE HAVE IN COMMON? Pictograph Oracle Bones Loess

3. IT’S THE SHANG DYNASTY

4. TRY THIS POLITICAL ASSOCIATION Satraps(ies) Tolerant Zoroastrian

5. YOU GOT IT, IT’S THE PERSIANS!!!!

6. THIS ONE IS TRICKY Jaguar-man Andes Terrace Farming

7. THAT’S RIGHT, IT’S THE CHAVIN

8. LOOK FOR THIS RELIGIOUS GROUP Monotheism Exodus (also a book) Torah

9. ORIGINS OF JUDAISM.. IT’S THE HEBREWS

10. THIS IS MORE GEOGRAPHIC Monsoon winds Grid System Sewers

11. IT’S THE INDUS RIVER VALLEY(MOHENJO- DARO AND HARAPPA )

12. A RELIGIOUS COMBO Vedas Torah Avestas

13. SACRED LITERATURE OR HOLY BOOKS

14. CODES ARE WRITTEN DOWN Mosaic Code Hammurabi’s Code Code of Assur

15. WRITTEN LAWS (MIRRORS OF CIVILIZATION)

16. ANOTHER GEOGRAPHIC ONE Megaliths Slash and burn Maize

17. THAT’S RIGHT, ITS THE OLMECS

18. NICKNAMES? “Gift of the Nile” “China’s Sorrow” “Fertile Crescent”

19. RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATION NICKNAMES

20. WHAT ARE THESE SIGNS OF? Organized government Written language Urban planning

21. CHARACTERISTICS OF CIVILIZATION

22. WHICH CIV IS THIS? “carriers of civilization” Purple dye Carthaginian colony

23. THE PHOENICIANS

24. WHAT ABOUT THIS CIVILIZATION? Palace of Knossos King Minos Bull-leaping

25. THAT’S IT, THE MINOANS

26. WHAT DO THESE THREE HAVE IN COMMON Sumerians Minoans Phoenicians

27. BRILLIANT!!!! THEY ALL UTILIZED THE MEDITERRANEAN

28. THIS IS A TOUGH ONE. WHAT DID THESE GROUPS HAVE IN COMMON Nubian Kush Hyksos Assyrians

29. THEY ALL ATTACKED EGYPT

30. PRETTY GIRLS HATE Pacific Ocean Gobi Desert Himalayan Mountains

31. CHINA’S ISOLATION (AND ETHNOCENTRISM): THE MIDDLE KINGDOM

32. WHAT DO ALL THESE TERMINOLOGIES HAVE IN COMMON? Pre-Columbian Native American Indian

33. NAMES FOR INDIGENOUS GROUPS OF THE AMERICAS

34. THESE NAMES HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON Shiva Ganesh Indra

35. HINDU DEITIES

36. ANOTHER GEOGRAPHY ISSUE Terrace farming Slash and burn canals

37. WAYS PEOPLE ADAPTED TO THEIR ENVIRONMENT

38. YET ANOTHER GEOGRAPHY PROBLEM Steppes Deserts plains

39. LANDS OF THE NOMADIC PASTORALISTS

40. ANOTHER GEOGRAPHY QUESTION Zagros Andes Himalayans

41. AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH

42. WHAT DO THESE THREE HAVE IN COMMON Copper Bronze Iron

43. METALS, METALLURGY AND AGES

44. HOW DOES ONE BECOME A Prisoner of war Indebted Criminal

45. HOW TO BECOME ENSLAVED IN THE ANCIENT WORLD

46. THE THREE Corn Beans Squash

47. SISTERS: STAPLES OF THE MESOAMERICAN DIET

48. ITS THE Sumer Babylon Assyria

49. MESOPOTAMIANS

50. YOU KNOW THIS ONE Cuneiform Hieroglyphics Phonetic

51. WRITTEN LANGUAGES

52. WHAT DO THESE HAVE IN COMMON? Ziggurats Pyramids Temples

53. MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE INSPIRED BY RELIGION

54. THAT WHICH GOES UP… Corrupt leaders Natural disasters Peasant rebellions

55. MUST COME DOWN: LOSS OF CHINA’S MANDATE OF HEAVEN

56. ANOTHER GEOGRAPHY QUESTION? Europe to the North Africa to the South Asia to the East

57. IT’S THE MEDITERRANEAN

58. WHAT DO THESE HAVE IN COMMON? Monarchy Theocracy Aristocracy

59. TYPES OF GOVERNMENTS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD

60. FINALLY!!!!! La Venta San Lorenzo Tabasco

61. OLMEC CITY-STATES

62. ROLE OF GEOGRAPHY? Political – governments control natural resources (i.e. irrigation projects) Economic - resources are traded (silk, purple dye) labor is specialized due to agricultural surplus Religious - deities (Gods) help explain natural phenomena (i.e. Mandate of Heaven in China) Social - Where you live and land that you have access to determines your social class Intellectual and Artistic- natural resources are turned into finished products (i.e. pyramids, Ziggurats, etc.) Thesis: In the Ancient world (400 B.C.E-600 C.E) geography played an important role in th management of massive irrigation projects, the development of new commercial commodities and overcoming great obstacles through innovations of engineers, artisans and priests.