Unit 4:
Early Humans & River Valley Civilizations
Big Questions:
Big Ideas
Guiding Questions:
- How can the fundamental themes of geography be used to describe the Eastern Hemisphere?
Big Ideas
- Historians use conceptual devices (eras, periods, calendars, timelines) to organize their study of the world and to study broad developments.
- Historians use frameworks (G-SPRITE) to analyze and evaluate these conceptual devices.
- Chronology is based on time and reflects cultural and historical interpretations, including major starting points, and calendars based on different criteria
Guiding Questions:
- How did plant and animal domestication set the scene for the emergence of civilization?
- How did Mesopotamian civilization develop?
- What role did the environment and religion play in Egyptian civilization?
- What does material evidence tell us about the Indus Valley Civilization and the most likely reason for its collapse?
Readings