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BELL RINGER

HOW DOES EGYPT AFFECT US TODAY, ARCHITECTURE?

GOVERNMENT? TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS?

FINISH TEMPLE RESEARCH/DRAWINGS

ANCIENT INDIA

• INDUS RIVER VALLEY RUNS NW EDGE OF INDIA SUBCONTINENT- LARGE LANDMASS THAT IS PART OF A CONTINENT

• 3 AREAS FAR NORTH HIMALAYA/HINDU KUSH MTN SYSTEM – SEPARATE INDIA FROM REST OF ASIA. DECCAN PLATEAU SOUTH. HIGH PLATEAU/DESERT RECEIVES LESS RAIN THAN REST. NORTHERN PLAINS IN-BETWEEN. WHERE SOCIETY FIRST DEVELOPED.

• WHY DO YOU THINK THEY SURVIVED THERE? TPS

• INDUS, GANGES, BRAHMAPUTRA (COVER 1,700 MILES CALLED INDO-GANGETIC PLAIN) FLOOD/ALSO HEAVY RAINS BROUGHT BY MONSOONS , WHAT PROBLEMS COULD A MONSOON CAUSE? LL

• TOO LITTLE/TOO MUCH

Draw Subcontinent with Himalaya mtn range, monsoon winds

INDUS VALLEY CIV

• KNOW VERY LITTLE ABOUT INUS RIVER VALLEY, MAINLY BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT DECODED THE WRITING SYSTEM YET.

• 1920/FIRST ANCIENT CITY FOUND

• PART OF HARRAPAN CIVILIZATION INCLUDED CITIES OF KALIBANGAN, MOHENJO-DARO, HARRAPPA

CALLED HARAPPA “MOUND OF THE DEAD”

• WELL PLANNED/LAID OUT GRID PATTERN NSEW WITH MAJOR AVENUES TWICE AS LARGE AS MINOR AVENUES. SOUND FAMILIAR???

• WATER W/ COMMUNITY WELLS/SOPHISTICATED PUBLIC DRAINAGE SYSTEM FOR WASTE

• CITADEL-WALLED FORTRESS, ENCLOSED GRANARIES/WAREHOUSES/MEETING HALLS. HOMES/WORKSHOPS/SHRINES BUILT ON OUTSIDE. TPS WHAT DOES THAT SHOW US?

• CENTRAL AUTH. IN POWER

• THEY DEEMED THOSE THINGS IMPORTANT

WATER ENGINEERING PARTNER READ/WORK

ECONOMY/SOCIETY• CANNOT DECIPHER HARRAPAN LANGUAGE BC NO BILINGUAL INSCRIPTIONS

• FARMED/LIVESTOCK/TRADE/SPECIALIZATION LIKE EGYPT

• HAD TIME FOR EXCESS THINGS I.E. CHILDREN’S TOYS. ANIMALS WERE VERY IMPORTANT TO THEM

• BELIEVE ONE SINGLE SOCIETY NOT SEPARATE CITY-STATES, BELIEVE THEY WERE A THEOCRACY. LOOK IN YOUR LL WHAT IS A THEOCRACY?

• CITY DECLINED , UNSURE WHY…… TPS WHY YOU BELIEVE THEY DECLINED

• FLOODING/DISAPPEARANCE OF SARASVATI RIVER THAT FLOWED THROUGH CIV./INVASION/DISEASE

• WHY DO HISTORIANS KNOW RELATIVELY LITTLE ABOUT INDUS SOCIETY?

VEDIC PERIOD

• ARYANS TOOK OVER/ UNSURE IF LOCAL OR EUROPEAN BETWEEN CASPIAN/BLACK SEAS

• WHAT WE KNOW IS FROM VEDAS – SACRED WRITINGS OF DETAILS ABOUT ARYAN HISTORY AND SOCIETY (MOSTLY HYMNS OF PRAISE) = VEDIC PERIOD/KNOW MUCH ABOUT RELIGION

• SETTLED IN SMALL VILLAGES

• BANDING UNDER RAJAS – REGIONAL LEADERS , WAR LEADER GAVE PROTECTION, IN RETURN PAID BY FOOD/$

VEDIC RELIGION• PEOPLE PRAYED TO MANY ASPECTS OF A SINGLE

ETERNAL SPIRIT , INDRA – RULED OVER HEAVEN

• WORSHIPPED THROUGH FIRE SACRIFICES/CHANTING OF SACRED HYMNS

• PRIESTS OFFERED FOOD/DRINK BY PLACING THEM ON FIRE

PASS OUT CHAPTER QUIZ & FINISH CH. 2 SECT 3 WORKSHEET

BELL RINGER

•LIST 5 SIMILARITIES MESOPOTAMIA, INDUS RIVER VALLEY AND EGYPT HAVE IN COMMON. LIST 5 DIFFERENCES.

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• HISTORY SO OLD UNSURE WHO WAS ACTUAL FIRST RULER OF CHINA

• FU XI SAID TO HAVE BEEN FIRST LEADER TO BRING CIVILIZATIONS TO CHINA. SAID HALF GOD/MAN

• TURNED THEM FROM BARBARIANS TO CIVILIZED BY TEACHING THEM HOW TO COOK, CATCH FISH WITH NETS AND DOMESTICATE ANIMALS.

• CREATED I CHING – SYSTEM OF PREDICTING FUTURE AND LAID FOUNDATIONS FOR A WRITING SYSTEM.

ANCIENT CHINA

• GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES AIDED CIVILIZATION IN CHINA

• WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY WERE TPS?

• LONG RIVERS

• FERTILE SOILS

• TEMPERATE CLIMATES

• ISOLATED VALLEYS

IMPORTANT GEOGRAPHY

RIVER DYNASTY’S JIGSAW• IN GROUPS OF 4

• EACH PERSON IN THE GROUP WILL READ ONE OF THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS (IN RED)

• THE GEOGRAPHY OF CHINA P. 50

• CIVILIZATION EMERGES IN SHANG TIMES P. 51

• THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHINESE CULTURE P.52

• ZHOU AND THE DYNASTIC CYCLE P. 54

• YOU WILL FILL IN YOUR GRAPHIC ORGANIZER WITH IMPORTANT INFORMATION THAT YOU WILL RELAY TO YOUR 3 CLASSMATES INCLUDING VOCAB! ALSO PUT IN YOUR LL

• AFTER COMPLETE THE ACTIVITY ON BACK WITH YOUR GROUP

CHAPTER QUIZ

READ 10 MIN

GRADE TEST

W/ PARTNER

• EVALUATE THE MAP ON P. 51 AND ANSWER THE 2 ACCOMPANYING QUESTIONS.

• RIVERS, SOILS AND CLIMATES

• TWO MAJOR RIVERS HUANG HE (YELLOW) AND YANGTZE (CHANG JIANG)

• LOESS (LOH UHS)-FINE DUSTY SOIL CARRIED INTO CHINA BY DESERT WINDS.

• FLOODS MUCH MORE DEVASTATING IN CHINA, COULD FLOOD ENTIRE VILLAGES

• CONSTANT ATTACKS FROM THE NORTH AND WEST

• ONLY 10% OF LAND ABLE TO FARM IN SMALL AREA BETWEEN RIVERS

SHANG DYNASTY

• BEGAN AROUND 1700 BC

• CENTERED IN HUANG HE VALLEY, CAPITAL WAS ANYANG. UNLIKE PREVIOUS CIVILIZATIONS THIS CITY WAS BUILT OF WOOD, WHY DO YOU THINK? LL

• BUILT MASSIVE EARTH WALLS TO PROTECT CITY. SOME 118 FEET WIDE AT ITS BASE, ENCIRCLED 1.2 MILES

• CREATED MANY INSTITUTIONS THAT CARRIED OVER INTO LATER CHINESE CULTURE

• FAMILY CENTRAL TO CHINESE SOCIETY/RESPECT FOR PARENTS

• ORACLE BONES – INSCRIBED BITS OF ANIMAL BONE OR TURTLE SHELL

• LINKED ANCESTORS TO RELIGION

• WRITING ONE CHARACTER WILL STAND FOR ONE WORD OR A UNIT OF LANG.

• RESULTED IN HAVING TO KNOW OVER 1,500 CHARACTERS. TO BE A SCHOLAR HAD TO KNOW 10,000 CHARACTERS.

• ONE ADVANTAGE WAS IT UNITED EVERYONE IN THE AREA UNDER ONE WRITTEN LANGUAGE EVEN IF THEY SPOKE A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE.

BELIEFS

• TOOK OVER FROM SHANG 1100 BC

• BELIEVED THE SHANG HAD LOST THE MANDATE OF HEAVEN – GODS WOULD SUPPORT A JUST RULER, WOULD NOT ALLOW ANYONE CORRUPT TO HOLD POWER

• RISE AND FALL OF DYNASTY’S IN CHINA WAS A DYNASTIC CYCLE

• ZHOU RULED THROUGH FEUDALISM. TRUSTED NOBLES TO USE LAND THAT LEGALLY BELONGED TO THE KING. IN RETURN NOBLES OWE LOYALTY AND MILITARY SERVICE TO THE KING AND PROTECTION TO THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON THEIR ESTATES.

• THIS SYSTEM WILL ARISE CENTURIES LATER IN JAPAN AND EUROPE

ZHOU (JOH) DYNASTY

ZHOU IMPROVEMENTS/FALL

• ROADS/CANALS BUILT TO STIMULATE TRADE AND AGRICULTURE

• COINED MONEY INTRODUCED

• CAST IRON WAS DEVELOPED, CAST IRON WOULD NOT BE THIS GOOD UNTIL THE MIDDLE AGES IN EUROPE

• NOMADS FROM NORTH ATTACKED AND MURDERED ZHOU MONARCH. NEW ZHOU LEADERS MOVED CAPITAL

• ONCE SETTLED COULD NOT KEEP CONTROL FROM NOBLES IN THE SURROUNDING AREA.

CH. 2 ASSESS P. 56

• TERMS & NAMES 1-8

• MAIN IDEAS 9-17

• IF TIME CRITICAL THINKING 1-5