Download CHAPTER 2: FROM VILLAGE COMMUNITY TO CITY STATE

CHAPTER 2: FROM VILLAGE COMMUNITY TO CITY STATE
RTN 38-61
-10,000 BCE
-.4 square miles
P 40 Map of Fertile Crescent- 1) why the name? 2) what are the modern countries? 3) two main rivers?
-Neolithic
-pottery
-Jomon people
P 41 Map of The origins of agriculture and domestic animals- 1) give original location: potato, tomato,
maize, rice, wheat, pigs, horses, chickens
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THE FIRST CITIES
Spotlight: Ban Po, China
-what were all the pits used for?
-why do you think kids and adults were buried separately?
-innovation versus diffusion
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THE MEANING OF CITIES
P 44 Timeline- notice the earliest date; now go “Google” Gobekli Tepe in Turkey; what date is
given to it? When was it discovered?
-bronze age
-record keeping
-scribes
P 45 Map- How many core areas of the earliest civilizations are there?
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SUMER
The Birth of the City
-Sargon
-Hammurabi
-Jerciho/Catal Huyuk versus the first cities
P 46 Stone Tower-do you know the Bible story associated with Jericho?
Control of the Countryside
Civic Loyalty
Leadership and the State
-reason for the first kings
P 47 Standard of Ur- What do the three scenes illustrate?
Religion: the Priesthood and the Cosmo-magical City
-what could be found there?
Focus: The City as Ceremonial Center
-what was the primary focus of the buildings located at the center of ancient cities?
Occupational Specialization and Class Structure
Arts and Inventions
-list some of the inventions
Trade and Markets; Wheeled Cart and Sailboat
-importance of traders
Monumental Architecture and Adornment
-bas reliefs
Writing and Literature
P 51 Map- Look at how important Mesopotamia was: based on the map why would writing have
been so important to this area?
-ideograms
-importance of writing
-5 examples of writing
-cuneiform
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-king Ashurbanipal
-Gilgamesh Epic
-Code of King Hammurabi
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EARLY MODERNIZATIONS: SOME MODERN CRITIQUES
-Karl Marx and the first cities
-slaves
-Lerner and the status of women
III.
MYTHISTORY
-pre-urban villages more egalitarian?
-polis
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IDENTIFICATION TERMS
Students should provide a definition and, when appropriate, a geographical
location of the term.
Ziggurat
Neolithic Era
Fertile Crescent
Hammurabi
Sumer
Bronze Age
Cuneiform
Mesopotamia
Innovation
Diffusion
City-state
Ur
Epic of Gilgamesh
Cosmo-magical city
Specialization
Tigris/Euphrates Rivers
Ideographs
Stele of Hammurabi
Akkad
Nineveh
Phoenicia
Tyre
Persian Gulf
Cylinder Seals
Sargon of Akkad
THE NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION AND EARLY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES(1.2)
THE DEVELOPMENT AND INTERACTIONS OF EARLY AGRICULTURAL,
PASTORAL, AND URBAN SOCIETIES (1.3)
STUDY GUIDE
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2.2
At the end of the chapter you should be able to:
Define what the term civilization means (1 sentence)
Classify the contributions of the Sumerians in regards to writing (spider
diagram)
Identify patterns in the relationship among cities and religion (1 paragraph)
Develop a logical argument on the side effects of urbanization (social classes,
patriarchy, warfare) (chart)
Analyze how urbanization led to inventions, innovations, and diffusion of
technology (2 paragraphs)
Hypothesize whether ancient civilizations are older than commonly thought and
whether they have connections to each other (1 paragraph)
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Read Chapter 24 of Fingerprints of the Gods: Echoes of Our Dreams
 Compare and contrast the various flood myths from around the world
(similarities and differences chart)
 Have a special focus on Genesis and Epic of Gilgamesh stories
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Comparison of the following images from ancient cultures to each other and to
one item in modern times:
 Tassili rock paintings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tassili_n'Ajjer
 Indus Valley Seals
http://archaeology.about.com/od/indusrivercivilizations/ss/indus_seals.htm
 Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/article_index/m/mesopotamian_cyl
inder_seals.aspx
 Cretan Seals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_seal-stones
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Read The Judgments of Hammurabi and answer the 6 questions.
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