Ancient River Valley Civilizations: Indus River, Mesopotamia, China, Egypt
DAY ONE
Breaking Newswww.cnn.com/2019/08/28/world/early-human-skull-discovery-australopithecus-anamensis-scn/index.html
When we First Walked: video www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bFtotU0of4
Vocabulary
archaeology, anthropology, paleoanthropology, agrarian, chronology, geographical determinism, primary source, secondary source, artifact, fact/opinion, hypothesis, bias, causation, fertile crescent, Paleolithic, Neolithic, code of laws, agriculture, pastoralism, hominid, hominin, homo sapiens
Theme Songs
Iceman: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLD6VW3XlUc
The Bangles "Walk Like an Egyptian": www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6tuzHUuuk
Mr. Nicky Mesopotamia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdblRch6m3g
Mr. Nicky Egypt: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTNyIJHcPd0
Mr. Nicky China: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vskHZIPJCE4
Unit Videos
Short Documentary: www.becominghuman.org
Crash Course: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yocja_N5s1I
Human population through time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwmA3Q0_OE
Spread of human migration around the globe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJdT6QcSbQ0
History of the World by year: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymI5Uv5cGU4
Top Ten Oldest Structures: www.oldest.org/structures/ruins/
Ancient Civilizations Videos:
Indus River: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ndRwqJYDM
Mesopotamia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sohXPx_XZ6Y and www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc8m9DHxH4E
Egypt: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Wvw6BivVI
Ancient Civilizations: Reading
summary websites (easiest reading level): ancienthistory.mrdonn.org/index.html
www.kidspast.com/world-history/0025-rise-of-civilizations.php
the Silk Road: www.thinglink.com/scene/725542558104551426
Mesopotamia
www.historyguide.org/ancient/lecture2b.html#hammurabi
www.ancient.eu/Mesopotamia/
www.mesopotamia.co.uk/time/explore/main_mes.html#2600B.C.
www.crystalinks.com/mesopotamia.html
www.mrdowling.com/603mesopotamia.html
Indus Valley
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhDY4KJuvc0&vl=en
www.timemaps.com/civilization-ancient-india
www.ushistory.org/civ/8a.asp
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ndRwqJYDM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUng-iHhSzU
Egypt
www.timemaps.com/civilization/ancient-egypt
www.ancient.eu/egypt/
China
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZRbotD3sok
History of the Great Wall www.youtube.com/watch?v=23oHqNEqRyo
Crash Course: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylWORyToTo4&t=134s
Compare and Contrast Websites
rivervalleypeyton.weebly.com/mesopotamia.html
www.rivervalleycivilizations.com/index.html
Cave Art - Group Work
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/rockart-ages-indonesian-cave-paintings-are-40000-years-old-180952970/
www.bradshawfoundation.com/chauvet/index.php
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120614142840.htm
www.livescience.com/48200-oldest-cave-art-indonesia.html
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06/120614-neanderthal-cave-paintings-spain-science-pike/
www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-19/rock-art-discovery-arnhem-land-northern-territory/4079354
www.britannica.com/art/cave-painting
Watch the Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHn_HhBGMVA
Ted.Ed talk:ed.ted.com/lessons/explore-cave-paintings-in-this-360-animated-cave-iseult-gillespie?utm_source=TED-Ed+Subscribers&utm_campaign=43ebd823a1-2013_09_219_19_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1aaccced48-43ebd823a1-48891489&mc_cid=43ebd823a1&mc_eid=6f285853dc
China's Terra Cotta Army
Read the Articles:
www.nationalgeographic.com/archaeology-and-history/archaeology/emperor-qin/
www.history.com/news/5-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-terra-cotta-army
www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-chinas-first-emperor-built-buried-7-000-strong-terracotta-army
Watch the Videos:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c_ADqshdSA
video.nationalgeographic.com/video/exploreorg/china-terra-cotta-warriors-eorg
www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/history/uncovering-the-terra-cotta-soldiers/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP5p4QbvPtc
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tombs-workers-who-built-terracotta-army-discovered-180951377/
Who was Otzi?
Watch the Videos:
short video from the Smithsonian: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8HXLqwD7uU
long video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUEJwKGM1D
additional short video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49vKSiOSug
Read the articles posted below:
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131016-otzi-ice-man-mummy-five-facts/
www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/02/mapping-61-ancient-tattoos-on-a-5300-year-old-mummy/385198/
factsanddetails.com/world/cat56/sub362/item1496.html
www.crystalinks.com/otzi.html
www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/5300-year-old-otzi-iceman-yields-oldest-known-human-blood-003018
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05497-z
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/20/health/otzi-tyrolean-iceman-mummy-new-study/index.html
http://www.iceman.it/en/the-research/
https://phys.org/news/2016-09-insight-life-death-year-old-ice.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/science/otzi-iceman-tools.html
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-otzi-last-meal-20180712-story.html
Who was Lucy?
www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141127-lucy-fossil-revealed-our-origins
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060920-lucy.html
www.bradshawfoundation.com/origins/australopithecus_afarensis.php
iho.asu.edu/about/lucys-story
www.history.com/news/famed-lucy-fossils-discovered-in-ethiopia-40-years-ago
www.cnn.com/2016/08/29/health/lucy-early-human-ancestor-cause-of-death/index.html
time.com/4126011/lucy-australopithecus-discovery/
www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/science/lucy-hominid-fossils-fall.html?mcubz=3
www.nature.com/nature/journal/v537/n7621/full/nature19332.html?foxtrotcallback=true
Evolution
Overview of Hominin Evolution
www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/overview-of--hominin-evolution-89010983
Smithsonian Institution: humanorigins.si.edu and humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-family-tree
Footprints at Laetoli: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dzb_XwxtB0
Just for Fun Websites:
Write like a Babylonian: www.penn.museum/cgi/cuneiform.php
Deciphering Hieroglyphics: discoveringegypt.com/egyptian-hieroglyphic-writing/
Who Built the Pyramids? Interviews with Experts: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/who-built-the-pyramids.html
Additional Primary Sources:
The Book of Odes (China): wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?l=intro&m=NOzh
Rig Veda (India): http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/
Book of the Dead (Egypt): www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/Egyptian-Book-of-the-Dead.pdf
Epic of Gilgamesh (Mesopotamia): http://www.aina.org/books/eog/eog.pdf
Breaking Newswww.cnn.com/2019/08/28/world/early-human-skull-discovery-australopithecus-anamensis-scn/index.html
When we First Walked: video www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bFtotU0of4
Vocabulary
archaeology, anthropology, paleoanthropology, agrarian, chronology, geographical determinism, primary source, secondary source, artifact, fact/opinion, hypothesis, bias, causation, fertile crescent, Paleolithic, Neolithic, code of laws, agriculture, pastoralism, hominid, hominin, homo sapiens
Theme Songs
Iceman: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLD6VW3XlUc
The Bangles "Walk Like an Egyptian": www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6tuzHUuuk
Mr. Nicky Mesopotamia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdblRch6m3g
Mr. Nicky Egypt: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTNyIJHcPd0
Mr. Nicky China: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vskHZIPJCE4
Unit Videos
Short Documentary: www.becominghuman.org
Crash Course: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yocja_N5s1I
Human population through time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwmA3Q0_OE
Spread of human migration around the globe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJdT6QcSbQ0
History of the World by year: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymI5Uv5cGU4
Top Ten Oldest Structures: www.oldest.org/structures/ruins/
Ancient Civilizations Videos:
Indus River: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ndRwqJYDM
Mesopotamia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sohXPx_XZ6Y and www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc8m9DHxH4E
Egypt: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Wvw6BivVI
Ancient Civilizations: Reading
summary websites (easiest reading level): ancienthistory.mrdonn.org/index.html
www.kidspast.com/world-history/0025-rise-of-civilizations.php
the Silk Road: www.thinglink.com/scene/725542558104551426
Mesopotamia
www.historyguide.org/ancient/lecture2b.html#hammurabi
www.ancient.eu/Mesopotamia/
www.mesopotamia.co.uk/time/explore/main_mes.html#2600B.C.
www.crystalinks.com/mesopotamia.html
www.mrdowling.com/603mesopotamia.html
Indus Valley
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhDY4KJuvc0&vl=en
www.timemaps.com/civilization-ancient-india
www.ushistory.org/civ/8a.asp
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ndRwqJYDM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUng-iHhSzU
Egypt
www.timemaps.com/civilization/ancient-egypt
www.ancient.eu/egypt/
China
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZRbotD3sok
History of the Great Wall www.youtube.com/watch?v=23oHqNEqRyo
Crash Course: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylWORyToTo4&t=134s
Compare and Contrast Websites
rivervalleypeyton.weebly.com/mesopotamia.html
www.rivervalleycivilizations.com/index.html
Cave Art - Group Work
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/rockart-ages-indonesian-cave-paintings-are-40000-years-old-180952970/
www.bradshawfoundation.com/chauvet/index.php
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120614142840.htm
www.livescience.com/48200-oldest-cave-art-indonesia.html
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06/120614-neanderthal-cave-paintings-spain-science-pike/
www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-19/rock-art-discovery-arnhem-land-northern-territory/4079354
www.britannica.com/art/cave-painting
Watch the Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHn_HhBGMVA
Ted.Ed talk:ed.ted.com/lessons/explore-cave-paintings-in-this-360-animated-cave-iseult-gillespie?utm_source=TED-Ed+Subscribers&utm_campaign=43ebd823a1-2013_09_219_19_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1aaccced48-43ebd823a1-48891489&mc_cid=43ebd823a1&mc_eid=6f285853dc
China's Terra Cotta Army
Read the Articles:
www.nationalgeographic.com/archaeology-and-history/archaeology/emperor-qin/
www.history.com/news/5-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-terra-cotta-army
www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-chinas-first-emperor-built-buried-7-000-strong-terracotta-army
Watch the Videos:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c_ADqshdSA
video.nationalgeographic.com/video/exploreorg/china-terra-cotta-warriors-eorg
www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/history/uncovering-the-terra-cotta-soldiers/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP5p4QbvPtc
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tombs-workers-who-built-terracotta-army-discovered-180951377/
Who was Otzi?
Watch the Videos:
short video from the Smithsonian: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8HXLqwD7uU
long video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUEJwKGM1D
additional short video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49vKSiOSug
Read the articles posted below:
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131016-otzi-ice-man-mummy-five-facts/
www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/02/mapping-61-ancient-tattoos-on-a-5300-year-old-mummy/385198/
factsanddetails.com/world/cat56/sub362/item1496.html
www.crystalinks.com/otzi.html
www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/5300-year-old-otzi-iceman-yields-oldest-known-human-blood-003018
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05497-z
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/20/health/otzi-tyrolean-iceman-mummy-new-study/index.html
http://www.iceman.it/en/the-research/
https://phys.org/news/2016-09-insight-life-death-year-old-ice.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/science/otzi-iceman-tools.html
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-otzi-last-meal-20180712-story.html
Who was Lucy?
www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141127-lucy-fossil-revealed-our-origins
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060920-lucy.html
www.bradshawfoundation.com/origins/australopithecus_afarensis.php
iho.asu.edu/about/lucys-story
www.history.com/news/famed-lucy-fossils-discovered-in-ethiopia-40-years-ago
www.cnn.com/2016/08/29/health/lucy-early-human-ancestor-cause-of-death/index.html
time.com/4126011/lucy-australopithecus-discovery/
www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/science/lucy-hominid-fossils-fall.html?mcubz=3
www.nature.com/nature/journal/v537/n7621/full/nature19332.html?foxtrotcallback=true
Evolution
Overview of Hominin Evolution
www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/overview-of--hominin-evolution-89010983
Smithsonian Institution: humanorigins.si.edu and humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-family-tree
Footprints at Laetoli: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dzb_XwxtB0
Just for Fun Websites:
Write like a Babylonian: www.penn.museum/cgi/cuneiform.php
Deciphering Hieroglyphics: discoveringegypt.com/egyptian-hieroglyphic-writing/
Who Built the Pyramids? Interviews with Experts: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/who-built-the-pyramids.html
Additional Primary Sources:
The Book of Odes (China): wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?l=intro&m=NOzh
Rig Veda (India): http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/
Book of the Dead (Egypt): www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/Egyptian-Book-of-the-Dead.pdf
Epic of Gilgamesh (Mesopotamia): http://www.aina.org/books/eog/eog.pdf
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