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__**Unit 1: Foundations 8000 B.C.E. – 600 C.E.**__

8 Weeks

__**Key Concepts:**__ • Define and exemplify development of human society, including environmental, regional, climatic, and geographic factors. • Discuss and evaluate definitions of “civilization.” o Discuss Point of View as relates to same. • Evaluate theories on the origins, and discuss the effects of the agricultural revolution (1st settlements). • Discuss scholarship on changing gender roles as human society became more sedentary. • Examine, compare and contrast, and discuss river valley civilizations (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus river valley, Early Chinese including Shang, Mesoamerican including Olmec, Mexican, Aztec, and Maya.) • Discuss, and compare and contrast creation stories. • Identify key aspects of early empires, apply and evaluate various models of empire. • Discuss relative effects of innovation, imitation, cultural diffusion, cultural borrowing, and assimilation and their fall. • Discuss early migrations and their effects. • Identify and discuss effects of early trade within and among first civilizations and empires (including diffusion of culture, religion, and technology). • Compare and contrast early civilizations. • Identify key aspects of Early Religions (Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and their various early sects. • Identify, apply, discuss, evaluate and perfect document analysis skills (DBQ practice).

__**Spodek Readings:**__ Chapter 1: The Dry Bones Speak Chapter 2: From Village to Community Chapter 3: River Valley Civilization Chapter 4: A Polycentric World Chapter 5: Dawn of Empires Chapter 6: Rome and the Barbarians Chapter 7: China Chapter 8: Indian Empires

__**Primary and Secondary Source Readings:**__ The Epic of Gilgamesh The Egyptian Book of the Dead The Workings of Ma’at Ch’u Yuan and Sung Yu: Individual voices in a chaotic Era Confucious: The Analects The Code of Hammurabi The Illiad by Homer Pericles’s Funeral Oration Treatises on Women in Han society Asoka, Indian Buddhist Emperor TeNaKh Bible Qu’ran Rigveda

__**AP Skills and Concepts Regarding the Six Themes:**__ Periodization Development of Agriculture Migration & Urbanization Occupational specialization and class structure Early State Formation Primary and Secondary Document Analysis Point of view & Historiography Diverse Interpretations Critical Reading Define and discuss concept of “civilization” Document Based Questions Influence of Geography and the Environment on Human Settlement

__**Writing Activities and Projects:**__ The Draft Process of Writing a DBQ Timed Writing of a DBQ Test

__**Unit I**__ Suggested Websites: Cave paintings - http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/

Reconstruction of the city of Ur – http://www.taisei.co.jp/cg_e/ancient_world/ur/aur.html

Indus River Valley - http://pc38.ve.weber.k12.ut.us/Reese/indus_river_valley.htm

Ancient Egypt - http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html

Ancient and World Religions - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/1699/

Ancient China - http://www.crystalinks.com/china.html

Ancient Cities of Sumer: http://www.sumerian.org/map.htm

Homes of Mesopotamia: http://www.theplumber.com/history.html