SPICE Chart River Valley Civilizations Directions: Match the characteristics to the correct category of SPICE using the reference - SPICE 5 Themes - to help you complete your chart. 1 Each Expert Group will have 15 minutes to complete your Civilization’s SPICE Chart. 2. Then you will return to your Home Group where each student takes a turn presenting their chunk of information. 3 Meanwhile, the other students, in the Expert Group, will listen carefully, complete their chart, and ask questions – they are learning the material from this expert, so this is their opportunity to make sure they learn it right. 4 Once the first expert has gone, the others take their turns. As each “expert” teaches their chunk of content, the others in the group are learning it. Mesopotamia -- (rivers?) Tigris How do we communicate/interact with each other? Social Hierarchy - distinct social classes Social family, gender, social classes slaves 90% of the country are farmers Whose in charge of the nation? Political gov’t, leaders, military, war World’s 1st e Hammurabi’s Code - 1st written laws City-States - Sumer, Ur, Uruk ruled themselves separately Warrior-Kings who power with priests How humans modify the environment? Interaction geography, environment Tigris & Euphrates River Modern day Iraq Fertile Crescent, Red Sea, Persian Gulf Land between the rivers Fe Irrigatio ditches used How do people learn & where does the knowledge come from? Ziggurat temples - used for religion/gov’t/storage Culture Religion, beliefs, education, art/math/science, literature & writing Afterlife bad Agriculture polytheistic Humans to serv Mathematics - # system based on 6 How do people earn their living? Use of slave labor Economic$ trade$, jobs, business, $ Bronze - metal tools & weapons traded$ Craftsmen & Artisans Phoenicians - seafaring traders Scribes = person who wri their job farmers Egypt - (river?) Nile River How do we communicate/interact with each other? Social Hierarchy - distinct social classes Social family, gender, social classes Political gov’t, leaders, military, war slaves Upper v Lower Egypt “neighborhoods” Whose in charge of the nation? Theocracy- governed by priests Pharaohs - god-kings Dynasty - hereditary Centralized Gov’t - united gov’t god-kings = passed down within the family How humans modify the environment? Interaction geography, environment Nile River Fertile soil from flooding = silt Surrounded by Sahar Red Sea, Mediterrane Deltas - triangular shapes land between 2 rivers Cataracts How do people learn & where does the knowledge come from? Culture Religion, beliefs, education, art/math/science, literature & writing Geometry for building pyramids invented Mummification - process of creating mu the afterlife Pyramids - tombs for pharaohs Hieroglyphics Polytheistic How do people earn their living? Economic$ trade$, jobs, business, $ Capitalist economy$ used coins Use of slave labor Center of trade$ India - (river?) Indus How do we communicate/interact with each other? Caste system Sewage system invented Social family, gender, social classes Whose in charge of the nation? Political Mohenjo-Daro & Harappa Centralized Gov’t - un gov’t, leaders, military, war How do people learn & where does the knowledge come from? Interaction geography, environment Subcontinent Indus & Ganges Rivers Himalaya & H Mountain monsoons Planned city grid system How do people learn & where does the knowledge come from? Culture Religion, beliefs, education, art/math/science, literature & writing No decipherable written language Early ties to Hinduism Polytheistic Peaceful people few weapons found How do people earn their living? Economic$ trade$, jobs, business, $ Bronze & copper tools traded$ Stamps and seals for trade$ Craftsmen & Artisans Center of trade$ Cotton texti traded$ China - (river?) Huang He How do we communicate/interact with each other? Peasants Social family, gender, social classes Social classes Feudalism noble class & peasant class Dynasty Women were inferior Elderly had special privileges Whose in charge of the nation? Political gov’t, leaders, military, war Shang & Zhou dynasties Warrior nobles Centralized Gov’t - united gov’t Whose in charge of the nation? Interaction geography, environment Huang He & Yangtze Rivers Great Wall of China Gobi Desert & Himalayan Mounta How do people learn & where does the knowledge come from? Worship ancestors Culture Religion, beliefs, education, art/math/science, literature & writing Economic$ trade$, jobs, business, $ Polytheis tic Con phil Emperor - Son of a re God Mandate of Heaven belief that emperor’s family should rule Writing with How do people earn their living? ideograms/characters Traded$ books Economy$ Traded$ based on porcelain agriculture Capitalist economy$ used coins Silk fabric traded$
