Geography:
Be able to:
 identify the oceans, continents, and Middle Eastern countries and water forms studied throughout the year.
 identify North, East, South and West, hemispheres and longitude and latitude.
 Use a scale on a map.
UNIT ONE: Early Humans and the Rise of Civilization
Chapter 1: Essential Question - How do social scientists interpret the past?
 Know the role of an archeologist, a historian and a geographer. How do these social scientists work
together to learn about the past?
 Identify where the earliest fossils were found.
 Know the meaning of the word prehistoric.
Chapter 3: Essential Question - How did the development of agriculture change daily life in the Neolithic Age?
 Identify Neolithic settlements and explain the reason for their location.
 Know what discovery signified the beginning of the Neolithic Age. How did this discovery come about?
 Know the differences between the lives of hunters and gatherers during the Paleolithic Age and the lives
of people during the Neolithic Age.
Chapter 4: Essential Question - How did geographic challenges lead to the rise of city-states in Mesopotamia?
 Know the meaning of the word Mesopotamia.
 Know the four key problems Mesopotamians faced and what they did to meet each challenge.
 Understand the meaning of city-state and what distinguishes it from a community.
 Understand the effect of Sumerian city-states’ independence from one another.
Chapter 5: Five Features of a Civilization: Why do historians classify ancient Sumer as a civilization?
 Be able to identify the 5 features of a civilization and have an understanding of what they include.
 Remember, the features we learned (found on the BLOG) vary from the chapter 5 list.
Chapter 6: Essential Question - What were the most important achievements of the Mesopotamian empires?
 Know the difference between a civilization and an empire.
 Know the order of which the Mesopotamian Empires held power.
 Know the important achievements of the Mesopotamian Empires and be able to connect them to the
important rulers studied.
 Know the common problem all of the Mesopotamian Empires faced.
UNIT TWO: Ancient Egypt
Chapter 7: Essential Question - How did geography affect early settlement in Egypt?
 Be able to identify the three environmental factors, water, topography and vegetation.
 Know the most important physical feature of Egypt and what it provided for the Egyptians.
 Understand the advantages and disadvantages of the environmental factors of Egypt.
Chapter 8: Essential Question - What did the pharaohs of ancient Egypt accomplish, and how did they do it?
 Know the accomplishments of the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms of Egypt.
 Be able to match the four leaders to their appropriate kingdom and identify what they were known for.
 Be able to identify the order of which the leaders ruled.
Chapter 9: Essential Question - How did social class affect daily life in ancient Egypt?
 Understand the Social Pyramid of Egypt.
o Why is it in the shape of a pyramid?
o How did it work? (How did people stay in their social level?)
o Why did it work?
 Know the jobs of each social level.
UNIT THREE: Ancient Greece
Chapter 25: Essential Question - How did geography influence settlement and way of life in ancient Greece?
 Be able to define peninsula.
 Understand the effect Greece’s geography had on their life.
o Why were they isolated?
o Why did they often fight with one another?
o How did they adapt their farming techniques to their environment?
o Why did they establish colonies and rely on trade?
Chapter 26: Essential Question - How did democracy develop in ancient Greece?
 Understand the evolution of power in ancient Greece from a monarchy to an oligarchy to a tyranny to a
democracy.
 Know the difference between a direct democracy and a representative democracy.
 Understand how a direct democracy worked in ancient Greece.
Chapter 27: Essential Question - What were the major differences between Athens and Sparta?
 Understand how geography affected the development of Athens as a city-state. Understand how the
geography affected the development of Sparta as a city-state.
 Know the differences between Athens and Sparta with regards to their government, economy, education
and treatment of women and slaves.
Chapter 28: Essential Question - What factors influenced the outcome of the Persian Wars?
 Summarize the details of key battles of the Persian wars.
 Evaluate the factors that contributed to a Greek victory in the Persian wars.
Chapter 29: Essential Question - What were the major cultural achievements of Athens?
 Know who Pericles was and what he was famous for.
 Understand why Athens was considered a “city of contrasts.”
Chapter 31: Essential Question - How did ancient Greece contribute to the modern world?
 What contributions did the Greeks make to the modern world in language and literature, government, the
fields of medicine, math, and astronomy, as well as theater and architecture?
KNOW THE MAP WE HAVE BEEN STUDYING ALL YEAR LONG. Know the names of the countries and
bodies of water.