Quarter 2: Recipes for Civilization

Topic: Early Ancient Civilizations

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Mesopotamia World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

Code of Hammurabi

(ca. 1790 BCE)

Hammurabi:

inscription from a

cylinder (18th

century BCE)

Ashurbanipal:

inscription describing

building projects

(668 BCE)

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

Mesopotamia

Hammurabi

cuneiform

Gilgamesh

Sumer

Babylon

Nebuchadnezzar II

Kassites

Assyria

World History:

Ancient and Medieval:

Mesopotamia and the

Fertile Crescent [1:21]

Hammurabi

Gilgamesh

Cuneiform tablet

relating part of the

Epic of Gilgamesh

Assyrian cuneiform

Assyrian conquest of

Lachish, Judaeans

Sennacherib

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

Why was

Gilgamesh a hero

for the ancient

Mesopotamians?

Daily Life Through

History:

What does

Hammurabi's Code

tell us about

Babylonian

society?

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

River Valley

Civilizations of the

Bronze Age

(Research List)

The Development

of Writing

(Research List)

Daily Life Through

History:

Per-napishtim: The

Epic of Gilgamesh,

"The Great Flood"

(ca. 2100 BCE)

Sennacherib

Sargon II

Hanging Gardens of

Babylon

Tigris and Euphrates

rivers

Fertile Crescent

Nineveh: Great City

of Assyria

Daily Life Through

History:

Literature in

Mesopotamia:

Ancient World

Government in

Mesopotamia:

Ancient World

Sargon II

Palace of Sargon II at

Khorsabad (Dur-

Sharrukin)

Assyrian Empire, ca.

625 BCE

Babylon

Ruins of Babylon and

King Nebuchadnezzar

II's palace

Fertile Crescent, about

3000 BCE

Nineveh

Egypt World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

Egyptian Book of the

Dead: Hymn to Osiris

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

hieroglyphics

Menes

World History:

Ancient and Medieval:

Ancient Egypt

Dynastic Periods of

Ancient Egypt

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

How did the ancient

Egyptians build the

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

Ancient Egypt

(Research List)

Egyptian Book of the

Dead: Hymn to Osiris

Un-Nefer

Egyptian Book of the

Dead: Hymns of

Praise to Ra

Egyptian Book of the

Dead: Hymns of

Praise to Ra and

Osiris

Egyptian Religion

and the Afterlife

(Overview)

Thebes

Book of the Dead

Old Kingdom

Middle Kingdom

New Kingdom

Egyptian pyramids

Egyptian boats and

ships

Egyptian myth and

geography

Nile River

Egyptian

stoneworking

Egyptian architecture

Egypt

Egyptian

hieroglyphics

The Development of

Writing (Visual)

Menes

Scene from Book of

the Dead

Tomb painting of

Queen Nefertari, wife

of Ramses II

Egypt and the Near

East, 3200–500 BCE

Egyptian Religion and

the Afterlife (Visual)

Egyptian fishermen

Ancient Egypt

Egyptian galley

Irrigation canal in

Egypt's Nile Delta

Great Hypostyle Hall,

Karnak

New Kingdom of

pyramids at Giza?

Who was behind

the removal of the

name and images of

Pharaoh Hatshepsut

and why?

Was the Egyptian

pharaoh Akhenaton

a monotheist?

The $10 Million

Pyramid: All about

Egypt (Lesson

Plan)

Pyramids...Not

Just For Egypt

(Research List)

Egypt, ca. 1450 BCE

Indus Valley NOTE: There are no

primary source texts

for the Indus Valley

civilization because

their written language

has not yet been

deciphered, thus

written artifacts are

not yet translated.

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

Indus Valley

Civilization

(Overview)

Indus script

Harappan civilization

Harappa

Indus River valley

Mohenjo-Daro

Harappan seals

Harappan

architecture

Harappan agriculture

Harappan citadels

Daily Life Through

History:

Work in the Indus

Valley

World History:

Ancient and Medieval:

Indus civilization seal

Indus Valley

Civilization (Visual)

Well, Mohenjo-Daro

Map of Harappan

civilization, about

1700 BCE

Copper and bronze

weapons from

Mohenjo-Daro and

Harappa

Baked brick wall,

Harappa

Inscribed sherd from

Harappa

"Priest-king" sculpture

of Mohenjo-Daro

Citadel ruins at

Mohenjo-Daro

World Geography:

How did the natural

environment of

South Asia affect

ancient Indian

societies?

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

What happened to

the Harappans?

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

Indus Valley

Civilization

(Research List)

Comparing Early

Civilizations

(Lesson Plan)

Mohenjo-Daro city

grid

Harappan brick-lined

drains

Yellow River World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

The Book of

Documents:

"Instructions of Yi"

The Book of

Documents: "The

Common Possession

of Pure Virtue"

The Book of

Documents: "The

Speech of Thang"

The Book of

Documents: "The

Thai Chia"

The Book of

Documents: "The

Announcement of

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

Shang China:

Civilization in the

Yellow River Valley

(Overview)

Shang dynasty

Xia dynasty

Zhou dynasty

Yellow River

Daily Life Through

History:

Urban & Rural Life

in the Han Dynasty

World History:

Ancient and Medieval:

Shang China:

Civilization in the

Yellow River Valley

(Visual)

Shang dynasty map

Shang pictographs

China's Shang and

Zhou dynasties [1:04]

Shang ceremonial

vessel

Chariot and horse

remains at Yin ruins

Jade carving

discovered in Shang

dynasty tomb

World Geography:

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

River Valley

Civilizations of the

Bronze Age

(Research List)

Shang China:

Civilization in the

Yellow River

Valley (Research

List)

Thang" Yellow River in China

Kush (Nubia) World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

Akhenaton: quote

praying to the sun

god Aton

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

The Kingdom of

Nubia: Life along the

Upper Nile

(Overview)

Piye

Shabaka

Aksum

Kush

Meroe

Nubia

Taharqa

Daily Life Through

History:

Trade in Nubia:

Ancient World

Nubian Agriculture:

Ancient World

World History:

Ancient and Medieval:

The Kingdom of

Nubia: Life along the

Upper Nile (Visual)

Kingdoms of Kush

and Aksum

Medinet Habu in

Egypt

Meroe burial pyramids

Columns of the

Temple of Khnum

Kerma

Temple of Khnum

Nubian relief

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

What led to the

height of success of

the kingdom of

Aksum in the fourth

century CE, and

what caused the

kingdom's eventual

decline?

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

The Kingdom of

Nubia: Life Along

the Upper Nile

(Research List)

Nubian Government:

Ancient World

Persia

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

Darius I: Behistun

Inscription (521

BCE)

Darius I: instructions

to his successor (fifth

century BCE)

Darius I: Large

Naqsh-i-Rustam

Inscription (fifth

century BCE)

Persepolis inscription

of Xerxes I (early

fifth century BCE)

Cyrus the Great:

excerpt from the

Cyrus Cylinder (ca.

539–530 BCE)

Herodotus: on the

customs of the

Persians (ca. 440

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

The Persian Empire

(Overview)

Battle of Marathon

Persian Wars

Persian Wars of

Expansion

Battle of

Thermopylae

Cambyses II

Cyrus the Great

Darius I

Xerxes I

Achaemenid dynasty

Persian Army

satrap

Persepolis

World History:

Ancient and Medieval:

The Persian Empire

(Visual)

Darius I

Ruins of Persepolis

Inscription in Old

Persian

Relief of Persian

guards on walls of

Persepolis

Ancient ceremonial

center of Persepolis

Xerxes I

Persian archers from

the palace of Darius I

Map of Persian Wars

from 490 to 479 BC

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

The Persian

Empire (Research

List)

What Persia Has to

Offer (Lesson

Plan)

BCE)

Topic: Ancient Greece

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Framework of

Athenian Society

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

Xenophon: on

managing the

household

Aulus Gellius: a

comparison of two

famous Athenian

legislators

Solon: quote on the

good city

Pericles: Funeral

Oration (ca. 430

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

Athenian women

Areopagus council

Cleisthenes of Athens

Alcmaeonids

Athenian democracy

Draco

Solon

ostracism

World History:

Ancient and Medieval:

Town assembly

meeting place at Pnyx

in Athens

Solon

Pericles

Stoa of Attalos

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

How did the family

lives of ancient

Athenians differ

from those of

Spartans?

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

Ancient Greece

and Rome's

Contributions

(Lesson Plan)

BCE)

Xenophon: a critic's

view of the Athenian

democracy

Plutarch: Solon

reforms the domestic

laws of Athens (ca.

100 CE)

Pericles

Thirty Tyrants

Greek City-

States: Social &

Political

Characteristics

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

Plato: excerpt from

Laws on travel

restrictions

Plutarch: the

differing Spartan

view of education

Xenophon: quote on

Sparta as a workshop

for war

Daily Life Through

History:

Ancient Greece:

Founding of the

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

boule

demos

Greek citizenship

Ecclesia

polis

agora

eunomia

ostraca

Cleomenes I

Athens and Sparta

World History:

Ancient and Medieval:

Corinth agora in

Greece

Etched ostraca used

for voting

Ancient Greece

Athens and Sparta

(Visual)

Ruins of the acropolis

at Sparta

Warrior statue,

Spartan culture

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

Philosophical

Movements and

Philosophers of

Ancient Greece

(Research List)

Olympics

(Overview)

Peloponnesian

League

Sparta

Spartan women

ephors

gerousia

ephebus

Daily Life Through

History:

Social Structure in

Greece: Ancient

World

The Polis in the

Hellenistic Age

Contributions to

Western

Civilization

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

Demetrius: an ancient

style manual

Pliny the Elder: on

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

Classical Style in Art

and Sculpture

(Overview)

World History:

Ancient and Medieval:

Classical Style in Art

and Sculpture (Visual)

Parthenon frieze of

men on horseback

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

What impact did

classical Greek and

Roman authors

have on our nation's

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

Classical Style in

Art and Sculpture

(Research List)

Phidias's Athena

Parthenos (77 BCE)

Pausanius: "The

Acropolis and

Parthenon" (ca. 150

CE)

Pericles: quote on

Athenian love of

beauty

Socrates: quote on

the unexamined life

Plato: on hunting and

fishing regulations

Aristotle: on the keys

to success for an

orator

Aristotle: quote on

the use of speech and

reason

Euripides: quote on

the legacies of good

and bad men

Euripides: quote on

Greek architecture

Greek sculpture

Greek Sculptors:

Phidias, Praxiteles,

Myron, and

Polyclitus

Parthenon

Socrates

Greek philosophy

Plato

Aristotle

Greek drama

Euripides

Sophocles

Aeschylus

Dionysia

Herodotus

Xenophon

Thucydides

Doryphorus (Spear

Bearer) (Polyclitus)

Venus de Milo

Parthenon in Athens,

Greece

Discobolus (Discus

Thrower) (Myron)

Entablature of

Parthenon

Socrates

Greek philosophers

[1:24]

Bust of Plato

Aristotle

Euripides

Sophocles

Theater of Dionysus in

Athens

Greek theater [:59]

Aeschylus

Founding Fathers?

Why has Herodotus

been known both as

"the Father of

History" and "the

Father of Lies"?

the worries of

parenting

Sophocles: quote on

the irrelevance of

wisdom

Sophocles: quote on

the wonder of

humanity

Aeschylus: quote on

tragedy

Herodotus: capture of

Sardis and Croesus-

Book 1 Clio: [84-87]

Herodotus: oracle's

prophecy-Book 1:

Clio [53-54]

Herodotus: story of

Croesus-Book 1: Clio

[30-33]

Xenophon: Athens as

a commercial center

(ca. 355 BCE)

Xenophon: on how to

succeed in business

Greek mythology

relationship of gods

and humans in Greek

mythology

human creation myth

in Greek mythology

American

Government:

classical liberalism

Herodotus

Xenophon

Thucydides

Homer

Oceanus

Perseus liberating

Andromeda

Greek mythology

[1:13]

Five Rivers of Hades

Olympian Gods

(ca. 360 BCE)

Xenophon: on

managing the

household

Thucydides: Melian

Dialogue (ca. 416

BCE)

Xenophon: on eating

onions

Thucydides: quote on

being deprived of

liberty

Homer: Iliad Book

III, Helen on the

walls of Troy (ca.

750 BCE)

Homer: Odyssey

Book IX, escape

from the Cyclops (ca.

750 BCE)

Homeric Hymn to

Demeter part 3:

Persephone's return

(seventh century

BCE)

Homer: Odyssey

Book I, Athena

intervenes (ca. 750

BCE)

Topic: Ancient Rome

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Origins and

Social

Framework of

Roman Society

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

Cicero: on religious

rules, regulations,

and rituals

Plutarch: an early

version of a Pax

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

The Origins of

Roman Cultural

Values (Overview)

Etruscans

World History:

Ancient and Medieval:

The Origins of Roman

Cultural Values

(Visual)

Dancing Phersu tomb

painting

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

The Origins of

Roman Cultural

Values (Research

List)

Life in Rome, the

Romana

Plutarch: the

founding of Rome

Aulus Gellius: on

exotic foods and

gluttonous Romans

Juvenal: Third Satire

(ca. 100 CE)

Pliny the Younger:

letter on finding relief

from public life (ca.

100 CE)

Tacitus: a historian

writes about oratory

Pliny the Younger:

letter on the

popularity of chariot

racing (ca. 100 CE)

Quintilian: on the

well-dressed Roman

orator

Lucius Annaeus,

Seneca: letter on

gladiators

Roman heroes

Life in Rome, the

Seat of Empire

(Overview)

Circus Maximus

Colosseum of Rome

gladiator schools

chariot

Roman mock naval

battles

gladiatorial games

Roman wild beast

shows

patricians

plebeians

Daily Life Through

History:

Roman Empire:

Overview

Relief of Roman

family

Life in Rome, the Seat

of Empire (Visual)

Interior of Rome's

Colosseum

African animals en

route to the

Colosseum in Rome

Gladiator fights a lion

Circus Maximus

Seat of Empire

(Research List)

crowds (ca. 63–65

CE)

Tacitus: Great Fire of

Rome-The Annals

Book 15 [38-43]

Daily Life Through

History:

A Roman Cookbook

Cato the Elder: A

Good Father’s

Responsibilities

Quintilian:

Prescription for

Educating a Child

Political

Framework of

Roman Society

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

Pliny the Younger

and Trajan: letters on

governing a province

(ca. 110 CE)

Pliny the Younger:

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

Law of the Twelve

Tables

Roman citizenship

Nerva

World History:

Ancient and Medieval:

Roman Forum ruins

Tabularium at Roman

Forum

The Five Good

Emperors of Rome

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

How and why were

aqueducts

important for the

ancient Romans?

Why was Aeneas a

World History:

Ancient and

Medieval:

Innovations of the

Romans (Research

List)

Why Did Rome

Fall? (Research

when Romans come

into contact with

Christians, with

Trajan's response

Hadrian: quote on his

soul's departure when

he dies

Marcus Aurelius:

Meditations (167 CE)

Marcus Fronto: letter

to Marcus Aurelius

on an upcoming

speech (143 CE)

Marcus Fronto: letter

to Marcus Aurelius

on promoting

harmony (ca. 140–

143 CE)

Marcus Aurelius:

quote on accepting

humanity

Marcus Aurelius:

quote on making

good use of one's

Trajan

Hadrian

Hadrian's Wall

Antoninus Pius

Marcus Aurelius

the philosophy of

Marcus Aurelius

The Pax Romana

(Overview)

Roman roads

Roman slavery

Sicilian Slave Wars

Spartacus

Latin literature

Virgil

Augustus

Roman Civil Wars of

235–284

barracks emperor

Nerva

Trajan

Hadrian

Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian’s Villa

Antoninus Pius

Marcus Aurelius

The Pax Romana

(Visual)

Augustus

Roman ruins in

Morocco

Roman road in

present-day Algeria

Roman sculpture

Roman slavery

Silver denarius of

Roman emperor

Trajan (obverse)

Virgil with Muses

hero for the ancient

Romans?

List)

The

Transformation of

the Roman Army

(Research List)

time

Augustus: letter of

farewell to Tiberius

(ca. 12 CE)

Augustus: letter to his

grandson Gaius

Caesar (1 CE)

Augustus: Res Gestae

Divi Augusti (14 CE)

Cicero: passage on

slavery from On the

Laws (ca. 52 BCE)

Pliny the Younger:

letter on a master

killed by his slaves

(ca. 100 CE)

Sidonius Apollinaris:

the character of

Visigoth king

Theodoric II (ca. 454

CE)

Sidonius Apollinaris:

amusements of

Roman aristocrats in

Diocletian

tetrarchy

Constantine I

Christianity and the

Roman Empire

(Overview)

Why Did Rome Fall?

(Overview)

Germanic peoples

Clio and Melpomene

Diocletian

Diocletian and other

tetrarchs

Bronze follis of

Roman emperor

Diocletian (obverse)

Bronze follis of

Roman emperor

Diocletian (reverse)

Roman Emperors of

the Tetrarchy

Map of division of

Roman Empire under

Diocletian

Constantine I

Constantine's Arch

beside Colosseum in

Rome

Constantine I [1:13]

Christianity and the

Roman Empire

Gaul (ca. 462 CE)

Plutarch: on ideal and

inappropriate slaves

to instruct children

(ca. 100 CE)

Seneca: on the

treatment of slaves

who prepare and

serve food

Virgil: quote on

fearing gift-bearing

Greeks

Virgil: quote on

Rome's imperial

mission

Edict of Milan (313

CE)

Julian: edict on

Christian teachers

(362 CE)

Jordanes: The history

and accomplishments

of the Gothic people

(ca. 550 CE)

(Visual)