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The Sumerians: Topic: The First Civilizations

The document is an outline for a chapter on early civilizations. It includes sections on the Sumerians, Babylonians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, Egyptians, Nubians, Kushites, Axumites, Indus Valley civilizations, Chinese Shang dynasty, and early civilizations in the Americas and Oceania. The essential question asks how developments like trade, legal codes, writing systems, and religions shaped these civilizations.

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The Sumerians: Topic: The First Civilizations

The document is an outline for a chapter on early civilizations. It includes sections on the Sumerians, Babylonians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, Egyptians, Nubians, Kushites, Axumites, Indus Valley civilizations, Chinese Shang dynasty, and early civilizations in the Americas and Oceania. The essential question asks how developments like trade, legal codes, writing systems, and religions shaped these civilizations.

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Chapter: #02

Name: ___________________________________
Topic: The First Civilizations
Class: _________________ Period: ________

Essential Question: How did trade, legal codes, writing systems, religious beliefs and other key
developments come to affect and define the civilizations of the Sumerians, Babylonians,
Phoenicians, and the Hebrews?
Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:

The Sumerians

Sumerian Government

Sumerian Religion

Sumerian Economy and


Trade

Sumerian Social
Structure

Women in Sumer
Chapter: #02
Name: ___________________________________
Topic: The First Civilizations
Class: _________________ Period: ________

Essential Question: How did trade, legal codes, writing systems, religious beliefs and other key
developments come to affect and define the civilizations of the Sumerians, Babylonians,
Phoenicians, and the Hebrews?
Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:

Cultural and Scientific


Contributions

Sumer Decline

The Babylonian Empire

King Hammurabi

Babylonian Society &


Culture

The Phonicians
Chapter: #02
Name: ___________________________________
Topic: The First Civilizations
Class: _________________ Period: ________

Essential Question: How did trade, legal codes, writing systems, religious beliefs and other key
developments come to affect and define the civilizations of the Sumerians, Babylonians,
Phoenicians, and the Hebrews?
Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:

The Hebrews

Monotheism

Division and Diaspora

Summarize and Answer the Essential Questions


Chapter: #02
Name: ___________________________________
Topic: The First Civilizations
Class: _________________ Period: ________

Essential Question: How did trade, legal codes, writing systems, religious beliefs and other key
developments come to affect and define the civilizations of Egypt, Nubia, Kush, and Axum?

Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:
1)

2)

3)
The Geography of Africa
4)

Ancient Egypt

Introduction of
Agriculture &
Pastoralism

Transportation & Trade

Early Government
Chapter: #02
Name: ___________________________________
Topic: The First Civilizations
Class: _________________ Period: ________

Essential Question: How did trade, legal codes, writing systems, religious beliefs and other key
developments come to affect and define the civilizations of Egypt, Nubia, Kush, and Axum?

Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:

The Old Kingdom

The Middle Kingdom

The New Kingdom

Egyptian Society

Religion

Egyptian Writing
Chapter: #02
Name: ___________________________________
Topic: The First Civilizations
Class: _________________ Period: ________

Essential Question: How did trade, legal codes, writing systems, religious beliefs and other key
developments come to affect and define the civilizations of Egypt, Nubia, Kush, and Axum?

Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:

Scientific Contributions

Nubia

Kush

Axum

Summarize and Answer the Essential Questions


Chapter: #02
Name: ___________________________________
Topic: The First Civilizations
Class: _________________ Period: ________

Essential Question: How did trade, legal codes, writing systems, religious beliefs and other key
developments come to affect and define the civilizations of the Indus Valley and China?

Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:

Indus Valley
civilizations

Agriculture and the


Environment

Aryan Migration and


Interactions

Importance of Clans

Aryan Language

Aryan Religious
Traditions
Chapter: #02
Name: ___________________________________
Topic: The First Civilizations
Class: _________________ Period: ________

Essential Question: How did trade, legal codes, writing systems, religious beliefs and other key
developments come to affect and define the civilizations of the Indus Valley and China?

Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:

Aryan and Dravidian


Beliefs

China’s First Civilization

China’s First Rulers

The Shang Dynasty

Economy, Technology,
and Trade

Religion
Chapter: #02
Name: ___________________________________
Topic: The First Civilizations
Class: _________________ Period: ________

Essential Question: How did trade, legal codes, writing systems, religious beliefs and other key
developments come to affect and define the civilizations of the Indus Valley and China?

Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:

Cultural and Scientific


Contributions

The End of the Shang


Dynasty

The Zhou Dynasty

Government

Trade and Agriculture

Urbanization
Chapter: #02
Name: ___________________________________
Topic: The First Civilizations
Class: _________________ Period: ________

Essential Question: How did trade, legal codes, writing systems, religious beliefs and other key
developments come to affect and define the civilizations of the Indus Valley and China?

Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:

Zhou Achievements

The Decline of the Zhou


Dynasty

Summarize and Answer the Essential Questions


Chapter: #02
Name: ___________________________________
Topic: The First Civilizations
Class: _________________ Period: ________

Essential Question: How did trade, legal codes, writing systems, religious beliefs and other key
developments come to affect and define the civilizations of the Americas and Oceana?

Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:

The First American


Civilizations

The Chavin

The Olmec

The Austronesian
Speakers

Easter Island

Summarize and Answer the Essential Questions

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