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Ancient Civilization Packet Name _________________

Period _________________

Due

1. Content Page p. 1

2. Map 1: Continents and Oceans p. 2

3. 5 Key Characteristics Chart p. 3

4. Map 2: Southwest Asia and Egypt p. 4

5. SW Asia Chart and Notes p. 5

6. Egypt Chart and Notes p. 7

7. Map 3: South Asia p. 8

8. S. Asia Notes p. 9

9. Map 4: East Asia Map p. 10

10. China Chart and Notes p. 11 and 12

11. Mongolia/ Japan Chart and Notes p. 13

12. African Map p. 14

13. West African Chart p. 15

14. West African Civilization Comparison p. 16

15. Americas Map p. 17

16. Mayan, Aztec, Inca Comparison p. 18

17. Mayan, Aztec, Inca Chart p. 19

18. Religion Chart p. 20

Continents and Oceans Map

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5 Key Characteristics

|Characteristic |Definition/Explanation |Ancient Examples |Modern Examples |

| |Changes the amount of labor needed to do a job. |Wheel |Cars, airplanes |

|Technology | |Plow |Tractor |

| | |Sailboat |Computers, cell phones |

| | |Bronze |Steel, plastic |

| | | |Electricity |

| |When people learn special skills to do a job |Scribe |Doctor |

|Specialized labor | |Shoemaker |Lawyer |

| | | |Car mechanic |

| | | | |

| |Trade |Ur in Sumer |New York City |

| | |Rome |Mexico City |

|Cities | | |Beijing |

| | | | |

| |Gives order and rules |Hammurabi’s Code |US Constitution |

| | |Ten Commandments |Democracy |

|Organization |Usually provided by government and religion |Theocracy |Communism |

| | | |Monarchy |

| |A way of keeping track of information – taxes, laws, |Cuneiform |English |

| |trade agreements |Hieroglyphics |Spanish |

|Record keeping | | |Computer programming |

| |Usually writing | |Architectural drawing |

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SW Asia Ancient Civilizations

Region: S W Asia

| |Cities |Labor |Institutions |Record-keeping |Technology |

|Civilization |Geographical Location |Society |Government |Religion (Mono/Poly) |Writing |

|Date | | | | | |

Civilization

Date |Geographical Location |Society |Government |Religion |Writing |Inventions/Contributions | |Egypt

~ 3200 BC |N. Africa

Nile River – “Gift of the Nile” |Pharaoh

Priests/Nobles

Merchants/Artisans

Peasants

Slaves

|Theocracy

Pharaoh both God and King |Polytheistic |Hieroglyphics (Rosetta Stone) |Pyramid

Mummification

Papyrus

Calendar

Written Numbers

Geometry | |

| |Labor |Institutions | | |Technology | |Kingdoms

Date |Famous Rulers |Society |Government |Expansion |Decline |Inventions/Contributions | |Old Kingdom

2660 – 2180 BC |X |Time of pyramid building |X |X |Power of the pharaoh declined

1. Civil War

2. Poor harvests

3. Invaders |Pyramid

Mummification

Papyrus

Calendar

Written Numbers

Geometry | |Middle Kingdom

2080 – 1640 BC |X |Pharaohs began to care for common people

Ordinary people began to believe the afterlife was for everyone |Restores law and order

Capital moved from Memphis to Thebes |Improved trade and transportation |Invasion by Hyksos across the Isthmus of Suez into Egypt |Irrigation canal from Nile to Red Sea | |New Kingdom

1570 -1075 BC |Hapshepsut – female and trade

Thutmose III – empire builder

Ramses II – last great pharaoh and had Abu Simbel built |Wealthy and powerful

Enslavement of the Jews (Moses) |X |Added Palestine, Syria, and Nubia under Thutmose III |Invasions by land and sea |New ideas from cultural diffusion

Abu Simbel

Valley of the Kings

Building of Karnak

Bronze weapons and chariots | |

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