River Valley Civilizations Worksheet Answer Key

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This lesson is an inference activity that serves as an excellent introduction and overview of new content dealing with early river valley civilizations in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Indus Valley, and China. It introduces important content vocabulary, requires students to categorize, make inferences (hypotheses), support answers with evidence, read for meaning and compare and contrast. It has been successfully used in an AP World History class, but could just as easily be edited for any non-AP course.

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Civilization originates in the Fertile Crescent, river valley civilizations, Mesopotamia, Canaan, Egypt, Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, Nile River, Jordan River, Indus River, Huang He (Yellow) River, silt, arable land, irrigation, transportation, favorable geography, Zagros Mountains, Syrian Desert, rich soil to grow plentiful crops, Babylonian Empire, Hammurabi's Code, 'an eye for an eye,' recorded existing laws for all to see, Assyrian Empires, Persian Empire, social structure was hierarchical,

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Ancient China - Movie Questions for Time Life’s, “Lost Civilizations: China, Dynasties of Power” documentary. Narrated by Sam Waterston, this 35 minute documentary covers the first dynasty of China, the Shang, and the first emperor of China, Chin. It also focuses on oracle bones, the Great Wall, silk and Chinese inventions.Also included is a weblink to the video so you can play the video online. Video questions are very short and very easy to answer, so your students can concentrate on the video