Maps
Paleolithic/Neolithic
Paleolithic/Neolithic
Mesopotamia
Egypt
China
India/Mesoamerica
100
What continents are labelled?
1. North America
2. South America
3. Antarctica
4. Europe
5. Africa
6. Asia
7. Australia
100
What is the relationship between kings and Gods depicted in this image?
1. Kings said they got their power from the gods.
100
Why were rivers important to Ancient Civilizations?
The provide water to grow crops which provide food and water so that populations can grow
100
Which rivers did Ancient China grow along?
Yellow and Yangtze Rivers
100
Where was the Indus River Valley Civilization?
India and Pakistan along the Indus River
200
What is this map showing? What did humans need so that they could move to cold areas?
1) Human migration of paleolithic people
2) need clothes and fires
200
How did legal codes reflect the power dynamics of a civilization?
They showed who had power and who didn't. Showed the social hierarchy of the civilization
200
What were these used for?
to bury Pharaoh's
200
What was the relationship between religion and government?
The kings believed their power came from the gods
200
What advanced technology is depicted in this image?
Water management and sewage system
300
How was Paleolithic society organized and how did they live?
1. Small groups that moved around following the animals.
2. Hunted and gathered.
300
What does the following law show us about power dynamics in Mesopotamia?
Code of Hammurabi:
143: If she is not innocent, but leaves her husband, and ruins her house, neglecting her husband, this woman shall be cast into the water.
Men had more power in society and women had stricter laws.
300
Why did rulers build monumental architecture? What does it show about those societies?
They had organized social structures. They wanted to show their power. They believed in the afterlife.
300
Which idea is expressed in this document?
Now your Majesty is entering on the inheritance of your ancestor Zheng Tang’s virtue and all is dependent on how you commence your reign. The ways of Heaven are not invariable – on the good-doer it sends down all its blessings, and on the evildoer it sends down all its miseries. If you not be virtuous in large things or small, it will bring about the ruin of your ancestral temple.”
Mandate of Heaven
300
Where was the Olmecs civilization?
Mesoamerica, Central America
400
Where did agriculture start?
1. In many different places
Mesoamerica, South America, West Africa, Southwest Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia
400
What does the following law show us about power dynamics in Mesopotamia?
Code of Hammurabi:
117: If any one fail to meet a claim for debt, and sell himself, his wife, his son, and daughter for money or give them away to forced labor: they shall work for three years in the house of the man who bought them, or the proprietor, and in the fourth year they shall be set free.
Men had power over their families. There were slaves.
400
How were power structures different in Mesopotamia and Egypt?
Women had more power in Egypt than Mesopotamia
400
What did the people believe would happen when a king was bad? What would happen next?
Mandate of Heaven:
“The former kings of Xia cultivated their virtue, and then there were no calamities from Heaven. The spirits of the hills and rivers likewise were all in tranquility. But their descendant did not follow their example, and great Heaven sent down calamities, employing the agency of our first ruler Zheng Tang* who displayed his sagely prowess; for oppression he substituted generous kindness; and the millions of people gave him their hearts.
The heavens would send down disasters and they would lose the mandate of heaven. A new family would take power.
400
1) What does this map show us?
2) Why did this happen?
1) different civilizations grew different crops
2) They had different native crops
500
How did the development of agriculture affect power dynamics?
1. Men gained power and women lost it because men did most of the agriculture work, providing food and women lost their economic independence because they worked in the house having babies.
500
What does the following law show us about power dynamics in Mesopotamia?
Code of Hammurabi:
196: If a [noble-]man put out the eye of another [noble-]man, his eye shall be put out.
198: If he put out the eye of a [commoner], or break the bone of a [commoner], he shall pay one [silver] mina.
Noblemen had more power and protections than commoners
500
How were power structures similar in Mesopotamia and Egypt?
The lower classes and slaves had similar hard lives and little power. The upper classes had the power.
500
Compare and Contrast the relationship between religion and government in China, Egypt and Mesopotamia
Compare: They all claimed the gods gave them power
Contrast: In China the gods can take the power away. People did not view the kings as gods but as favored by the gods.
500
What can we infer about Olmec culture from these artifacts?
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They had specialized jobs, they had a social hierarchy, they had farming