Historical Thinking Skills
Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
Indus Valley
Ancient China
100
Name the historical thinking skills in order of sequence.
Contextualization, Corroboration, Sourcing, and Making Evidence-Based Claims
100
What are the names of the two rivers in Mesopotamia?
The Tigris & Euphrates Rivers
100
What is the name of Egyptian tombs for pharaohs?
Pyramid
100
What is the name of the river in the Indus Valley
Indus River
100
What are the names of the two rivers that Ancient China formed their civilizations on?
Huang He River (Yellow River) & Yangtze River
200
What are we doing when we are sourcing?
We are asking the question "is this source reliable / trustworthy?"
200
Name one invention that the civilizations in Mesopotamia created
Wheel, Lunar Calendar, Sailboat
200
Who was at the bottom of the social structure in ancient Egyptian civilization?
Slaves and farmers
200
What is the name of the social structure in the Indus Valley civilization?
Caste System
200
Why was the Silk Road important?
Goods and cultural ideas, including silk and Buddhism
300
What skill requires you to recognize bias?
Sourcing
300
What is the name of the Sumerian temple that only priests were allowed in?
Ziggurats
300
Why did Egyptians mummify their dead?
They believed that in the afterlife and that they would need their bodies after death.
300
Who was at the bottom of the social structure in the Indus Valley?
Laborers
300
What is terrace farming?
Farming on "steps" on a hillside
400
What essential question do we need to ask when we are corroborating sources?
Am I finding different versions of the story? (If yes, why might that be?)
400
What is the name of the first set of laws ever written in human history?
Code of Hammurabi
400
What is the name of the first written form of communication?
Hieroglyphics
400
Who was at the top of the social structure in the Indus Valley?
Priests (Brahmin)
400
Why did the Chinese use terrace farming methods to grow their crops?
Only 10-12% of the Chinese land was fertile, and mountains were one of those fertile geographic features
500
What is a claim?
A statement that asserts something to be true
500
Why is Mesopotamia called the "Fertile Crescent"?
The land was fertile and allowed the first civilizations to settle
500
What was unique about what the Egyptians believed about their pharaohs?
They believed that Pharaohs were gods in human form
500
Name one invention that the people of the Indus Valley came up with
uniform weights and measures
500
How did the emperors of China legitimize their authority?
They used the Mandate of Heaven, which was a claim that the gods placed them in power
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