Units1&2GoalSheet:RiverValleyCivilizationsandWorldReligions

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Directions:CompleteeachpartoftheGoalSheet.Followthedirectionsthatapplytoyoursection(Honorsor
Academic).TheGoalSheetisduethedayoftheUnit1&2Test(____________).
Objectives:WH.H.1,WH.H.2
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Comparehowgeographyinfluencedsettlement,tradenetworks,andsustainabilityofancientcivilizations.
Analyzegovernmentsofancientcivilizationsintermsofdevelopment,structure,andfunction.
Explainhowcodifyinglawsmettheneedsofancientcivilizations
AnalyzethegrowthanddevelopmentofmajorEasternandWesternreligions.
Evaluatetheachievementsofancientcivilizationsintermsoftheirenduringculturalimpact.

PARTI:Writeacompletedefinitionforeachterm/conceptandinadditionexplaintheconnectionsforidentified
term.Mustbehandwrittenonaseparatesheetofpaper.
Unit1:RiverValleyCivilizations
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CulturalDiffusion
Ethnocentrism
PrimaryvSecondarySource
Civilization
NeolithicRevolution
FiveCharacteristicsofCivilization
Sumer(location,achievements,rivers)
CityState
CodeofHammurabi
Cuneiform
AncientEgypt(location,achievements,river)
Pharaoh
Hieroglyphics
IndusValley(location,achievements,river)
CasteSystem
Harappa,MohenjoDaro
AncientChina(location,achievements,rivers)
MandateofHeaven
Dynasty/DynasticCycle
OracleBones
Confucius/Confucianism

Unit2:WorldReligions
22.MonotheismvPolytheism
23.Hinduism(book,founder,hearth,diffusion)
24.Buddhism(book,founder,hearth,diffusion)
25.Kharma
26.Reincarnation
27.Nirvana/Moksha
28.FourNobleTruths/EightfoldPath
29.Judaism(book,founder,hearth,diffusion)
30.Christianity(book,founder,hearth,diffusion)
31.TenCommandments
32.Islam(book,founder,hearth,diffusion)
33.FivePillars
34.Mecca
35.Jerusalem
Connections
6,10,and13
18,19
5,8
31,33
29,30,and32

PARTII:EssentialQuestion(potentialconstructedresponsequestionsforunittest)
Directions:Onaseparatesheetofpaperwriteyouranswertothefollowingquestionsincompletesentences.
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Duringancienttimeswhydidmostcivilizationsdevelopmentinrivervalleys?
GivethreeexamplesofthewayhumansocietieschangedfromthePaleolithicPeriodtoaftertheNeolithicRevolution?
Howdoesreligionaffectthelivesofitsfollowers?(bespecific,includetwoexamples)
Picktwodifferentreligions.DrawaVenndiagramcomparingandcontrastingthetwo.Thesemaybewritteninbulletpoint
descriptions.Mustincludeatleasttwopointsineachspaceandatotalofeightpoints.

Units1&2GoalSheet:RiverValleyCivilizationsandWorldReligions
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PARTIII:GotoBlackboardandreadthearticle.AfterreadingthearticlecompletetheAPPARTSworksheet,be
suretoaddressallthequestionsineachsectionandwriteincompletesentences.
http://www.ushistory.org/civ/4c.asp

APPARTSWORKSHEET
AUTHOR:Whocreatedthesource?Whatdoyouknowabouttheauthor?Whatistheauthors
pointofview?

PLACEANDTIME:Whereandwhenwasthesourceproduced?Howmightthisaffectthe
meaningofthesource?

PRIORKNOWLEDGE:Beyondinformationabouttheauthorandthecontextofitscreation,
whatdoyouknowthatwouldhelpyoufurtherunderstandtheprimarysource?Forexample,
doyourecognizeanysymbolsandrecallwhattheyrepresent?

AUDIENCE:Forwhomwasthesourcecreatedandhowmightthisaffectthereliabilityofthe
source?

REASON:Whywasthissourceproducedandhowmightthisaffectthereliabilityofthesource?

THEMAINIDEA:Whatpointisthesourcetryingtoconveyinrelationtoyourquestion?

SIGNIFICANCE:Whyisthissourceimportant?Askyourself,Sowhat?inrelationtothe
questionasked.