Paleolithic
to Ancient Empires
L.Simons
NC Essential Standards:
WH.1.3
WH.1.2
WH.1.3
WH.2.1
WH.2.2
WH.2.3
WH.2.5
WH.2.9
Use Historical Analysis and Interpretation to…Analyze cause-and-effect relationships and multiple causation.
Use Historical Comprehension to…Differentiate between historical facts and historical interpretations
Use Historical Analysis and Interpretation to: …Evaluate the influence of the past on contemporary issues
Compare how different geographic issues of the ancient period influenced settlement, trading networks and the sustainability of various ancient civilizations (e.g.,
flooding, fertile crescent, confluence, limited fertile lands, etc.).
Analyze the governments of ancient civilizations in terms of their development, structure and function within various
Explain how codifying laws met the needs of ancient societies (e.g., Hammurabi….)
Analyze the development and growth of major Eastern and Western religions…
Evaluate the achievements of ancient civilizations in terms of their enduring cultural impact.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
Explain the ways scholars in different fields
work with technology to interpret the past
Archaeologist/Archaeology
Artifacts, Fossils
Carbon-14 Dating
Historian
Genealogist
Cultural Diffusion
Evaluate how our lives today were affected by
the Neolithic Revolution.
Paleolithic
Homo Sapien
Genetic Eve
Ice Age
Siberian Land Bridge
Development of Tools
Nomads
Hunting – Gathering
Animism
Neolithic
Neolithic Transition
Global warming and Geography
Farming – Agricultural Revolution
“Slash and Burn”
Domestication
Surplus
Describe Life in Neolithic Times
Specialization
Impact of Private Property
Religion
Gender Roles
Evaluate the advancements of the early
civilizations and empires of Mesopotamia.
River Valley Civilizations
Features of Civilization
Sumer – City States
Cuneiform
Epic of Gilgamesh
Analyze how various strong rulers united the
lands of the Fertile Crescent into well
organized empires.
Babylon
Hammurabi
Bureaucracy
Phoenicians –
Conclude how the Nile influenced the rise of
the powerful civilization of Egypt.
Rosetta Stone - Hieroglyphics
Upper Nile/Lower Nile - Trade
Pharaoh/Dynasty
Pyramids of Giza
Ramses II Treaties
Recall how religion played important roles in
ancient Egyptian civilization?
Polytheism
Mummification
Relate how the worship of only one god
shaped Judaism, the Levant, and later,
Christianity and Islam
Semite/Semitic Peoples
Abram/Abraham
Monotheism vs Henotheism
David and Solomon
Moses
Basic beliefs of Judaism