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Chapter 2-Early Humans
______Lucy
______Otzi
______Hominids
______Hunter Gatherer Societies
______Cave Paintings
______Human Migration
______Mesolithic Era (Hooks, spears, bow and arrow)
______Neolithic Era (Saw, drill, and make fire)
______Neolithic Revolution (Farming and domestication)
Chapter 3-Mesopotamia
______Fertile Crescent Geography (Tigris and Euphrates)
______City States (Sumer)
______Sargon (1st empire)
______Sumerian Society (Religion, social hierarchy, men and women)
______Sumerian writing-cuneiform
______Epic of Gilgamesh
______Sumerian Achievements (wheel, potter’s wheel, plow, clock, , bronze tools, make-up, glass jewelry, ziggurat, and cylinder seals)
______Hammurabi’s Code
______Phoenicians (Alphabet, Cedar trees, and sailing)
Chapter 4-Egypt
______Geography of Egypt (Nile)
______Menes (Unification of Egypt)
______Gods
______Afterlife
______Burial practices (Canopic jars, Book of the Dead, Mummification, Sarcophagus, etc.)
______Tombs (Pyramids, Valley of the Kings, etc)
______Egyptian Architecture (Sphinx, Obelisk, Temple at Karnak, Abu Simbel, etc.)
______Egyptian writing (Hieroglyphics, Papyrus, Rosetta Stone, etc)
______King Tut
______Ramses the Great (Longest reigning pharaoh)
______Hatshepsut (1st female pharaoh)
Chapter 5-India
______India’s Geography (monsoons, Indus River, Subcontinent)
______Harappans (1st civilization in India)
______Aryans (invaders from Central Asia that shaped Indian culture)
______Caste System
______Hinduism
______Buddhism
______Mauryan Empire (Candra Gupta Maurya, Asoka, etc)
______Gupta Empire (Candra Gupta I & II)
______Indian Achievements (Art, Sanskrit, Literature, science, metallurgy, inoculation, Hindu Arabic numerals, etc)
______Mughal Empire (Shah Jahan and Taj Mahal)
Chapter 6-China
______China’s geography (Huang He and Chang Jiang Rivers)
______Shang Dynasty (oracles, oracle bones, 1st writing system, etc)
______Zhou Dynasty (social system, period of warring states, )
______Confucianism (Confucius)
______Daoism
______Legalism
______Qin Dynasty-(Shi Huangdi, Great Wall, etc)
______Han Dynasty (revival of family)
______Han Achievements (sundial, seismograph, acupuncture, silk, etc.)
______Silk Road
Chapter 7-Hebrews and Judaism
______Early Hebrews (Abraham and Moses)
______Exodus
______Kings of the Israelites (Saul, David, and Solomon)
______Jewish Diaspora
______Jewish beliefs, texts, and holidays
Chapter 8-Greece
______Geography of Greece
______Minoans and Mycenaeans
______Greek City States
______Trojan War
______Athenian Democracy (Pericles)
______Greek Gods and Goddesses
______Greek Heroes
______Greek Mythology
______Greek Literature (Homer-Iliad and Odyssey, Aesop-fables, etc.)
______Olympics
Chapter 9-Greece
______Persian Wars (Cyrus the Great, Darius I, etc)
______Athens
______Sparta
______Peloponnesian Wars
______Alexander the Great
______Greek Achievements (statues, architecture, Parthenon, etc)
______Greek Philosophy (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle)
______Greek Advancement in Science (Euclid, Hippocrates, etc)