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Transcript of Toward Civilizations. 1. Critically examine the image and write down five things that come to mind.
Early CivilizationsToward Civilizations
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1. Critically examine the image and write down five things that come to mind.
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Complete Chapter 1 section 1 handout.
Homework
SWBAT…1. Explain how geography and history are
linked.2. Identify the methods that anthropologist
and archaeologist use to find out about early people.
3. Describe the ways historians try to reconstruct the past.
Objective
Activating prior Knowledge1. Why do you think people tend to build
settlements near rivers?
Stop and Jot
Stop & Jot
River Valley Civilizations Reasons
Fertile land Water attracted
animals that provided a source of food.
People could use water for drinking, travel and irrigation.
What do you think would some drawbacks might be to building civilization in river valleys?
Turn and Talk
Turn & Talk
Share Out
Flooding Challenge of protecting citizens from raids
by other groups envious of the good location.
Drawbacks
We are going to discuss the work of geographers, historians, anthropologist, archaeologist, and others in uncovering the past, for the next couple of lessons we will examine life in the stone age and the beginning of civilization in the Middle East and elsewhere.
A key to understanding history is studying the Five themes of geography.1. Location2. Place3. Human-Environment Interaction4. Movement5. Region
Focus
1. The class will be divided into five groups.2. Each group is responsible for one theme.3. Each group must define its theme and list
several examples to illustrate it.4. Make it look nice.5. Be prepared to present.
Group work
Group Work
List the five themes of geography.
Exit ticket
