World honors history unit 1
Notebook assignment one - civilizations

• The difference between the lifestyle of a nomad and someone who stays in the same place is that nomads are constantly moving in search of food.

• A nomad’s main food source is wild animals, they generally migrate along with the migration of animals

• People who live in the same place have adapted to agricultural customs

  • These people farm for food and have learned to domesticate animals, therefore they have everything they need in one place

• For someone to change customs they would have to adapt and develop basic elements of civilization such as a government, institutions, etc. 

  • They would have to learn how to farm and domesticate animals to live in one place

• What changes would be made:

  • Changes to the environment such as land adaption as they learn to develop cities

• 5 common traits of civilization are:

  • Advanced cities, technology, institutions, specialized workers, systems of recordkeeping

• A modern-day example of technology is how modern cell phones are extremely advanced and have so many uses

Neolithic revolution

• Before people would gather plants and hunt animals, they lived in small bands of people and were constantly moving

• After many people domesticated plants and animals, they also developed advanced civilizarions, and governments

• Arts became more elaborate, and people had more specialized jobs; advanced technology

• Important factors: Farming and the domestication of plants and animals

• Earliest evidence of the revolution was found 10,000 bc

 Notebook assignment 2 - Egypt

• Mesopotamia is a polytheistic religion 

they have nearly 3,000 gods.

They believed that gods were inferior to humans

• The government is a theocracy, 

each city has its primary god

• Some of their achievements include:

  • Building canals and irrigation systems, the invention of the wheel, and the plow

  • Faced the challenge of unpredictable flooding, organized workers for irrigation

• Haburammi’s code is a code of laws that set standards for commercial interaction. 

  • It was carved on to a large black stone and it also sets fines + punishments to meet the requirements for justice

• What makes the nile river different from the other rivers:

  • The Nile creates a natural boundary, it ws larger than other rivers, flows north, and it is worshipped as a god, allowed more fertile soil for crops, lots of trade.

• The Pharaohs were different from other leaders because they had the process of mummification, they were also worshipped as gods

• The purpose of the pyramids in Egypt were to hold tombs for the dead Pharaohs

  • They also held architectual and artistic achievements

Hammurabi’s code

• He thought that ruthless laws would bring peace

• Th code has a collection of 282 laws

• He taught that these laws came from god

Mesopotamia

• Mesopotamia means land between rivers

• Known as the beginning civilization

• At the center of each city there was a temple to each city’s god called a ziggurat    

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 Notebook assignment 3 - Indus Valley Civilization

• The Indus valley was unique because they had an advanced drainage system, and the city was very structured; the geography was also unique to the Indus Valley

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