Announcements:

1: Binders are

due!

2: New seating

chart (B Day)

3: Grades have

been posted (B

Day)

Bell Ringer: August (28)29, 2018

Materials:

1: Cornell Notes sheet

2: River Valley

Civilizations

Classwork sheet

1. Set up your Cornell notes

2. Across the top of your c-notes, write

today’s lesson topic:

RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS

3. In the left hand column of your c-

notes, write today’s lesson objective

in the form of a question:

IDENTIFY CAUSES AND DESCRIBE

EFFECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF

RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS

Announcements

1. Binders are due!

2. New seating chart (B Day)

3. Grades have been posted (B Day)

Materials

1. Binder

2. Cornell Notes sheet

3. River Valley Civilizations Classwork

Announcements:

1: Test 3/9!

Review is on the

Weebly!

2:

Bell Ringer: Bell Ringer: August (28)29, 2018

Materials:

1: Spiral/blank

sheet of paper

2: Emergence of

Totalitarianism

paper

3: V for Vendetta

Script

1. Set up your Cornell notes

2. Across the top of your c-notes, write

today’s lesson topic:

RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATION

3. In the left hand column of your c-

notes, write today’s lesson objective

in the form of a question:

IDENTIFY CAUSES AND

DESCRIBE EFFECTS OF THE

DEVELOPMENT OF RIVER

VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS

10,000

BCE

Nile River

Valley

Mesopotamia

Indus River

Valley

Huang He

River Valley

Word Wall Vocabulary:

• Dynasty: a family who rules a country

• Hieroglyphics: Writing system of the Egyptians

• Huang He: Yellow River, where the Yellow River Valley civilization developed

• Indus River: River in India around which the Indus River Valley civilization developed

• Mandate of Heaven: permission from the gods to rule in China

• Nile River: River in Egypt around which the Nile River Valley civilization developed

• Oracle bones: pieces of bone used for communicating with the gods

• Pharaoh: God-King of the Egyptians

• Theocracy: political system in which religious leaders also control the government

Development of River Valley CivilizationsCauses Effects

• Spread of agricultural practices

and the domestication of animals

allowed for more sophisticated and

larger settlements to emerge

• Societies emerge where there was

access to fresh water, along the

Tigris/Euphrates, the Nile, the

Indus and the Huang He rivers.

• Periodic flooding of the rivers

provided rich fertile soil

• Civilization emerged with common

political, economic, and cultural

patterns

• Surplus agricultural output allowed

some not to farm and new

specialization of labor emerged.

• Social divisions became more

pronounced

• Organized religions developed, first

distinguished as mostly polytheist

• Law codes were introduced

Guided Practice: River Valley Civilizations PREAP

• As a group, you will move to the four stations around the room

• Watch the video

• Read the information on the slides

• Organize the information in your Cornell notes

• Do not move until the timer goes off

What are the

characteristics

of

Mesopotamia?

C A A R S

Polytheist;ziggurats

Sumer, Ur Plow, sail Cuneiform Scribes, soldiers, priests

Guided Practice: River Valley Civilizations REGULAR

• You will work with the people in your rows

• Read the information on the slides

• Organize the information in your Cornell notes

• Do not move until the timer goes off

What are the

characteristics

of

Mesopotamia?

C A A R S

Polytheist;ziggurats

Sumer, Ur Plow, sail Cuneiform Scribes, soldiers, priests

Geography

• Fertile Crescent

• Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

• Present-day Iraq

Religion

• Polytheistic religion –ziggurat (temple) at the center of each city-state

Achievements

• Sumer/Ur

• Plow

• Pottery

• Bronze

• Wheel

• Sail

• Number system based on 60 and 360 degree circles

• Cuneiform Writing

Politics

• Monarchy –hereditary king, ex: Babylonian king Hammurabi

Economics

• Barter system, no coins yet

Social Classes

• Men dominant over women

Mesopotamia

EgyptGeography

• African continent

• Nile River Valley

Religion

• Polytheistic religion

Achievements

• Memphis

• Mummification of the dead

• Pyramids

• Calendar system based on Nile’s flood cycle

• Surgery

• Hieroglyphicswritten on papyrus, a paper made from reeds

Politics

• Theocracy –ruled by pharaohs who were considered god-kings

Economics

• Trade along the Nile

Social Classes

• Society: upper, middle, lower, slaves

India

Geography

• Indian subcontinent

• Indus River Valley

Religion

• Hinduism

Achievements

• Harappa/Mohenjo-Daro

• Sewer and plumbing system

• Planned city systems

Politics

• Unknown, probably a theocracy

Economics

• Barter system, no coins

Social Classes

• Aryans settle area around 1500 BCE and establish a caste system to separate Aryan (light-skinned) from non-Aryan

ChinaGeography

• Asian continent

• Yellow River Valley

Religion

• Polytheistic religion

Achievements

• Anyang

• Bronze

• Silk

• Characters (each symbol represents an idea)

• Oracle bones

Politics

• Monarchy/ Dynasty: ruled by a single family

• Zhou family claims “Mandate of Heaven”, or divine right to rule

Economics

• Barter system

Social Classes

• Filial Piety (devotion to ancestors)

Guided Practice: Summary

• In the bottom portion of your c-notes, complete a summary over the characteristics of a civilization and the four river valley civilizations

• Remember- the question that you are trying to answer in your summary is the same question that we wrote at the beginning of class: IDENTIFY CAUSES AND DESCRIBE EFFECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS

• Here are some sentence stems to help you out: The river valley civilizations were established because… Some of the effects of the development of river valley civilizations were…(include examples of the characteristics of a civilization that formed in each river valley)

Fun Fact

• Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa, two Indus River Valley cities, had plumbing

• Ancient Egyptians wore makeup (males and females)

• Ancient Egyptians worshipped cats, and the punishment for killing one was death. Cats were mummified after death, just like humans

Independent Practice:

• Mnemonic devices are techniques a person can use to help them improve their ability to remember something

• An acronym is an example of a mnemonic device: PEMDASPlease (Parenthesis)Excuse (Exponentials)My (Multiplication) Dear (Division)Aunt (Add)Sally (Subtract)

• Your group will create an acronym for one of the river valley civilizations

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WORK

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Independent Practice:

Mesopotamia Nile Indus China

TigrisEuphratesCuneiformPlowSailWheel

Group 1

NileHieroglyphicsPharaoh Mummies PyramidsTheocracy

Group 2

IndusMohenjo-Daro Harappa PlumbingWriting unknown Aryans

Group 3

Huang HeDynastyMandate of Heaven BronzeSilkOracle bones

Group 4

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Independent Practice:

• On your classwork sheet, correctly answer the paragraph prompt. Remember- a paragraph is 5-7 sentences

• Due at the end of class: Completed River Valley Civilizations Classwork sheet

CLASS

WORK

SHEET