Download G6C3-4 and G8C3 Booklet Topics Sheet

G6C3-4 and G8C3 Booklet Topics Sheet
United States History
World History: Ancient
World History: Ancient
G8C3 The American
Civilizations
Civilizations
Revolution
-------------------------------------Focus Topics:
Key Terms and People
(Select any five from G6C3 or
(Select any five)
G6C4)
1. First Continental Congress
2. minutemen
------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- 3. Redcoats
4. Second Continental
G6C3 Mesopotamia and the
G6C4 Ancient Egypt
Congress
Fertile Crescent
5. Continental Army
1. Rivers Support the Growth
1. Ancient Egypt and the Nile
6. George Washington
of Civilization
River
7. Battle of Bunker Hill
2. The Fertile Crescent
2. Farming in Egypt
8. Common Sense
3. Irrigation and Civilization
3. Menes (Pharaoh and
9. Thomas Paine
4. River Valley Civilizations
Dynasty)
10. Thomas Jefferson
5. City-State
4. Menes (Upper Egypt and
11. Declaration of
6. Sumerian Society – World’s Lower Egypt)
Independence
First Advanced Society
5. Old Kingdom
12. Patriots
7. Sargon’s Empire, c 2330 BC 6. Egyptian Society: (Most
13. Loyalists
8. Sumerian Religion –
powerful to least powerful)
14. mercenaries
Polytheism
7. Egyptian Gods
15. Battle of Trenton
9. The City-State of Ur
8. Mummies and the Afterlife
16. Battle of Saratoga
10. Cuneiform
9. The Process of
17. Marquis de Lafayette
11. Development of Writing – Mummification
18. Bernando de Gavlez
Pictographs
10. Building Pyramids
19. John Paul Jones
12. The Wheel
11. The Middle Kingdom
20. George Rogers Clark
13. Sumerian Achievements
12. Queen Hatshepsut
21. Francis Marion
14. The Rise of Babylon and a 13. Egyptian Trade c.1400 BC 22. Comte de Rochambeau
Monarch
14. Daily Life in Egypt
23. Battle of Yorktown
15. Hammurabi’s Code
15. Ramses the Great
24. Treaty of Paris of 1783
16. Babylon and Assyrian
16. Hieroglyphics and Papyrus -------------------------------------Empires
17. Egyptian Writing
Focus Topics
17. The Assyrian Army
18. The Temple of Karnak
(Know all Topics – two will be
18. Phoenicia, c. 800 BC and
19. Treasures of King Tut’s
given for short answers)
Trading Power
Tomb
1. First and Second Continental
19. Alphabet
Congress
2. “Shot Heard’round the
World”
3. Battle of Bunker Hill
4. Declaration of Independence
5. Patriots vs. Loyalists
6. Colonial Forces vs. British
Forces
7. The Patriots Gain Ground
8. Winter at Valley Forge
9. War Tactics in the South
“Swamp Fox”
10. Battle of Yorktown
11. Treaty of Paris 1783