Chapter: #02

Name: ___________________________________
Topic: The First Civilizations
Class: _________________ Period: ________

Essential Question: How did trade, legal codes, writing systems, religious beliefs and other key
developments come to affect and define the civilizations of the Sumerians, Babylonians,
Phoenicians, and the Hebrews?
Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:

The Sumerians

Sumerian Government

Sumerian Religion

Sumerian Economy and

Trade

Sumerian Social
Structure

Women in Sumer
Chapter: #02
Name: ___________________________________
Topic: The First Civilizations
Class: _________________ Period: ________

Essential Question: How did trade, legal codes, writing systems, religious beliefs and other key
developments come to affect and define the civilizations of the Sumerians, Babylonians,
Phoenicians, and the Hebrews?
Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:

Cultural and Scientific

Contributions

Sumer Decline

The Babylonian Empire

King Hammurabi

Babylonian Society &

Culture

The Phonicians
Chapter: #02
Name: ___________________________________
Topic: The First Civilizations
Class: _________________ Period: ________

Essential Question: How did trade, legal codes, writing systems, religious beliefs and other key
developments come to affect and define the civilizations of the Sumerians, Babylonians,
Phoenicians, and the Hebrews?
Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:

The Hebrews

Monotheism

Division and Diaspora

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Chapter: #02
Name: ___________________________________
Topic: The First Civilizations
Class: _________________ Period: ________

Essential Question: How did trade, legal codes, writing systems, religious beliefs and other key
developments come to affect and define the civilizations of Egypt, Nubia, Kush, and Axum?

Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:
1)

2)

3)
The Geography of Africa
4)

Ancient Egypt

Introduction of
Agriculture &
Pastoralism

Transportation & Trade

Early Government
Chapter: #02
Name: ___________________________________
Topic: The First Civilizations
Class: _________________ Period: ________

Essential Question: How did trade, legal codes, writing systems, religious beliefs and other key
developments come to affect and define the civilizations of Egypt, Nubia, Kush, and Axum?

Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:

The Old Kingdom

The Middle Kingdom

The New Kingdom

Egyptian Society

Religion

Egyptian Writing
Chapter: #02
Name: ___________________________________
Topic: The First Civilizations
Class: _________________ Period: ________

Essential Question: How did trade, legal codes, writing systems, religious beliefs and other key
developments come to affect and define the civilizations of Egypt, Nubia, Kush, and Axum?

Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:

Scientific Contributions

Nubia

Kush

Axum

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Chapter: #02
Name: ___________________________________
Topic: The First Civilizations
Class: _________________ Period: ________

Essential Question: How did trade, legal codes, writing systems, religious beliefs and other key
developments come to affect and define the civilizations of the Indus Valley and China?

Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:

Indus Valley
civilizations

Agriculture and the

Environment

Aryan Migration and

Interactions

Importance of Clans

Aryan Language

Aryan Religious
Traditions
Chapter: #02
Name: ___________________________________
Topic: The First Civilizations
Class: _________________ Period: ________

Essential Question: How did trade, legal codes, writing systems, religious beliefs and other key
developments come to affect and define the civilizations of the Indus Valley and China?

Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:

Aryan and Dravidian

Beliefs

China’s First Civilization

China’s First Rulers

The Shang Dynasty

Economy, Technology,
and Trade

Religion
Chapter: #02
Name: ___________________________________
Topic: The First Civilizations
Class: _________________ Period: ________

Essential Question: How did trade, legal codes, writing systems, religious beliefs and other key
developments come to affect and define the civilizations of the Indus Valley and China?

Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:

Cultural and Scientific

Contributions

The End of the Shang

Dynasty

The Zhou Dynasty

Government

Trade and Agriculture

Urbanization
Chapter: #02
Name: ___________________________________
Topic: The First Civilizations
Class: _________________ Period: ________

Essential Question: How did trade, legal codes, writing systems, religious beliefs and other key
developments come to affect and define the civilizations of the Indus Valley and China?

Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:

Zhou Achievements

The Decline of the Zhou

Dynasty

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Chapter: #02
Name: ___________________________________
Topic: The First Civilizations
Class: _________________ Period: ________

Essential Question: How did trade, legal codes, writing systems, religious beliefs and other key
developments come to affect and define the civilizations of the Americas and Oceana?

Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:

The First American

Civilizations

The Chavin

The Olmec

The Austronesian
Speakers

Easter Island

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