World History Unit 1 Chapter 2 Lesson 6 -10

​Unit 1 Chapter 2

Ruins - Leftover parts of past civilizations

What do you think this building was used for?

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Where did the 4 important civilizations form near?

• Mountains

• Rivers

• Plains

• Deserts

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Which was stronger, bronze or iron?

• Bronze

• Iron

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Where do we get the milk we drink and what animals gives us that milk?

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Who grows crops like wheat, rice, and corn?

• No one

• Farmers

• Crops grow on their own

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Something left over, like grain after a harvest

• City-state

• Government

• Surplus

• Social Class

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An advanced state of cultural and

material development in a society

• Surplus

• Government

• Social Class

• Civilization

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Where could people store their surplus food?

• Refrigerators

• Ice

• Pottery

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What did people learn how to do well with animals?

• Domesticate them

• Hunt them

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What were animals domesticated for?

• Food

• Security

• Transportation

• Entertainment

Was mostly in modern day Iraq

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Mesopotamia

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How did agriculture lead to the first civilizations?

• People could stay in one place and do jobs besides

  farming

• People had to move around to find food

• People began to hunt and gather their food

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Where did agriculture begin?

• Latin America

• The United States

• The Middle East

Four important civilizations arose in river valleys around the same time

​The four river valley civilizations were in modern-day Egypt, Iraq, India, and China.

River Valley Ancient Civilizations

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The power structure to represent,

control, and organize a society

• City-State

• Government

• Civilization

• Social Class

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A period of time

• Era

• Government

• BCE

• Surplus

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An advanced state of cultural and

material development in a society

• Civilization

• Government

• City-State

• Social Class

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The power structure to represent,

control, and organize a society

• City-State

• Government

• Social Class

• Surplus

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A city and surrounding territories

governed as one state

• Government

• Civilization

• City-State

• Social Class

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What helped with transportation and made soil fertile?

• Forests

• Mountains

• Ice

• Rivers

Open Ended

What do crops need to grow?

Open Ended

What makes soil fertile (able to grow plants)?

Multiple Choice

Where are all four of the river valley civilizations located near?

• Mountains

• Rivers

• Plains

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What did Egyptians benefit from?

• Fertile Soil

• Desert

• Flooding of the Nile River

• They didn't benefit from their location

Are you surprised that a city looked like this 2,000 years ago?

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What had water wells? (Hint: Use the caption in this picture!)

• Ancient Egypt

• China River Valley

• Indus River Valley

• Mesopotamia River Valley

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How did rivers help early civilizations?

• They made the land very dry

• They helped with transportation and made the soil fertile

• They caused droughts

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What did early civilizations have in common?

• They did not have their own resources

• They were all the same size

• They had fertile land

Governments were created to better manage civilizations

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The power structure to represent,

control, and organize a society

• Era

• BCE

• Government

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An abbreviation for Before the Common

Era, used to tell when something occurred

• Era

• BCE

• City-State

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An advanced state of cultural and

material development in a society

• Civilization

• Social Class

• City-State

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How were people divided?

• Civilization

• City-State

• Social Class

Social Classes then...

Social Classes now...

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Who was the leader of the Egyptians?

• Slaves

• Patriciens

• Pharaohs

Where do you think you can find a statue like this today?

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How were social classes divided in early civilizations?

• By the amount of land, cattle, and grains people had

• By the amount of money people had

• By people’s height

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What were Egyptian leaders called?

• Mummies

• Sumerians

• Pharaohs

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An abbreviation for Before the Common

Era, used to tell when something occurred

• Era

• BCE

• City-State

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A period of time

• Era

• Government

• BCE

• Surplus

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An advanced state of cultural and

material development in a society

• Government

• Social Class

• Civilization

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A group of people sharing similar

beliefs and behavior

• Culture

• Pre-History

• Iron

Open Ended

What was bronze used for? (Hint: Use the caption in the picture!)

Multiple Choice

What did the Minoans spread?

• Technologies

• Written Words

• Stories

• Rumors

Open Ended

What change the course of history? (Hint: Use the caption in the picture!)

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What finally gave way to the Iron Age in 700 BCE?

• Iron was easier to find

• They ran out of bronze

• Iron was stronger

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Why were iron weapons used by armies? (Hint: Use the caption in the picture!)

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What was bronze used for in early civilizations?

• Food

• Tools and weapons

• Seeds and berries

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Why was iron preferred to bronze?

• It was stronger and easier to process

• It was weaker and harder to process

• It was very hard to find

What helped early civilizations succeed?

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The time before writing was invented

• Culture

• Era

• Pre-History

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A group of people sharing similar

beliefs and behavior

• Social Class

• Culture

• Empire

Cuneiform script gets its name from the wedge-like and triangular symbols. Cuneiform means wedgelike

Multiple Choice

What did writing allow civilizations to communicate?

• Gossip

• Ideas

• Amazon Prime Day deals

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How many characters did Egyptian hieroglyphs have? (Hint: Use the caption from the picture!)

• Over 200

• Over 10,000,000

• Over 1,000

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What sorts of things did Egyptians write down?

• Tax codes

• Lunch orders

• Military Successes

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What did the first writing systems use?

• Alphabets

• Small pictures

• Computers

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Where was the oldest evidence of writing found?

• The Sumer region of Mesopotamia

• China

• New Zealand