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  • American History
    • American History I >
      • Unit 1 - Worlds Collide
      • Unit 2 - Adolescent Colonies
      • Unit 3 - Seeds of Rebellion
      • Unit 4 - Revolutionary America
      • Unit 5 - The New Nation
      • Unit 6 - Expansion and Reform
      • Unit 7 - Crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction
      • Unit 8 - The Great West
    • American History II >
      • Unit 9 - The Gilded Age
      • Unit 10 - The Progressive Era
      • Unit 11 - The American Empire
      • Unit 12 - Prosperity and Depression
      • Unit 13 - World War II
      • Unit 14 - Cold War Tensions
      • Unit 15 - Conflicts and Resolutions
      • Unit 16 - Modern America
  • World History
    • Early History >
      • Unit I - Origins
      • Unit II - Ancient Greece
      • Unit III - Rise and Fall of Rome
      • Unit IV - The Age of Faith
      • Unit V - Late Medieval World
      • Unit VI - Renaissance and Discovery
    • Modern History >
      • Unit VII - Crisis of Faith
      • Unit VIII - Revolutionary World
      • Unit IX - Industrial Imperialism
      • Unit X - The Great War
      • Unit XI - World War II
      • Unit XII - Cold War & Globalization
  • AP European History
    • Early Modern History >
      • Unit I - The Rise of Europe
      • Unit II - Rebirth and Exploration
      • Unit III - A Fractured Faith
      • Unit IV - A Question of Sovereignty
      • Unit V - A Shifting Society
      • Unit VI - Revolution
    • Late Modern History >
      • Unit VII - Political Turmoil
      • Unit VIII - Rise of the Nation-State
      • Unit IX - Forging the Modern Era
      • Unit X - Imperialism and the Great War
      • Unit XI - Global Conflicts
      • Unit XII - The Long Peace
  • Current Events

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Origins

Prehistory
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Prehistory - 4th Century B.C.
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People to Know
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Vocabulary
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NEED TO KNOW
  • prehistory
  • Homo habilis, erectus, sapiens
  • Out of Africa
  • Ice Age
  • indications of art and religion​
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DAWN OF MAN

From meager beginnings, humans began to develop out of Africa. Over thousands of years humans became the dominate species on Earth, realizing they could shape the world around them and control their own destiny.
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The Story
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  • Mesopotamia
  • ​Sumerians
  • Babylon and Hammurabi's Code
  • Land of Egypt
  • Egyptian kingdoms/eras
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THE FERTLE CRESCENT: CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION

As humans develop agriculture, they are able to form permanent settlements.  Sustained by an increase food production, larger populations develop between Mesopotamia in the Middle East and the Nile in Egypt becoming the cradles of civilization hosting the first of many civilizations in this land of the conquerors.
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  • ​Aryans and the caste system
  • Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism
  • Xia, Shang & Zhou China
  • Mandate from Heaven
  • Chinese feudal system
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THE ANCIENT ORIENT

Invasions and feuds dominate the landscape of ancient India and China.  Meanwhile, the blending of cultures and ideas help to awaken the birth of major eastern religions that will come to dominate southern and eastern Asia; an area that will be known as the Orient. 
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  • Hittites
  • Phoenicians
  • Israelites 
  • Assyrians
  • NeoBabylonians
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THE  IRON AGE

Mesopotamia becomes the battleground for empires attempting to rule their known world.  Forged in iron, each empire suffers the same fate either contending with outside invaders or succumbing to their own overexpanded success in the ongoing rise and fall of empires.
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  • American History
    • American History I >
      • Unit 1 - Worlds Collide
      • Unit 2 - Adolescent Colonies
      • Unit 3 - Seeds of Rebellion
      • Unit 4 - Revolutionary America
      • Unit 5 - The New Nation
      • Unit 6 - Expansion and Reform
      • Unit 7 - Crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction
      • Unit 8 - The Great West
    • American History II >
      • Unit 9 - The Gilded Age
      • Unit 10 - The Progressive Era
      • Unit 11 - The American Empire
      • Unit 12 - Prosperity and Depression
      • Unit 13 - World War II
      • Unit 14 - Cold War Tensions
      • Unit 15 - Conflicts and Resolutions
      • Unit 16 - Modern America
  • World History
    • Early History >
      • Unit I - Origins
      • Unit II - Ancient Greece
      • Unit III - Rise and Fall of Rome
      • Unit IV - The Age of Faith
      • Unit V - Late Medieval World
      • Unit VI - Renaissance and Discovery
    • Modern History >
      • Unit VII - Crisis of Faith
      • Unit VIII - Revolutionary World
      • Unit IX - Industrial Imperialism
      • Unit X - The Great War
      • Unit XI - World War II
      • Unit XII - Cold War & Globalization
  • AP European History
    • Early Modern History >
      • Unit I - The Rise of Europe
      • Unit II - Rebirth and Exploration
      • Unit III - A Fractured Faith
      • Unit IV - A Question of Sovereignty
      • Unit V - A Shifting Society
      • Unit VI - Revolution
    • Late Modern History >
      • Unit VII - Political Turmoil
      • Unit VIII - Rise of the Nation-State
      • Unit IX - Forging the Modern Era
      • Unit X - Imperialism and the Great War
      • Unit XI - Global Conflicts
      • Unit XII - The Long Peace
  • Current Events