Tuesday
Read Lesson 1 Pg 106 - 111
Copy Voc. and define on Pg. 107
Complete Lesson Review (Questions 1-5) on pg 111

Don't forget your Social Studies fair topics due on Friday with your signature and your parent

Study Questions
World History Study Questions

1. Where was the Fertile Crescent located?
2. What was called "the land between the rivers"?
3. What was one of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia?
4. What is a civilization?
5. What were some disadvantages and advantages of living close to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
6. What did the loss of crops mean?
7. Discuss how and why the farmers needed to control the rivers.
8. How did the early settlers of Sumer use technology?
9. How did they make the wheel?
10. Why was the development of the wheel important to society?
11. What two inventions helped early farmers deal with flooding?
12. What was a ziggurat?
13. Describe a zigguarat in detail.
14. Were religious beliefs important to Sumerian people? Explain why.
15. Name two of the important gods of the Sumerian people. Explain each.
16. What buildings were included in the zigguarat?
17. How did religion in Sumer reflect the importance of agriculture?
18. What is a government?
19. What is a city-state? Explain
20. How did the city states of Sumer enlarge their farmland?
21. What kind of government did Sumerian city-states form to provide stronger leadership?
22. What effect did a surplus of food have on life in Sumer?
23. What were Sumer's social classes?
24. What did the highest class in society have that the other classes did not?
25. What was the main difference between members of the middle class and members of the lower class?

These Questions are for Homework if you did not finish them in class

World History
Study for your test.

Words on the test

agriculture
culture
migration
artifact
domesticate
band
tundra
society
nomad
A.D.

Things to study

Why did the nomads move?
What is an artifact? example
What happened after the development of agriculture?
What was the first animal to be domesticated?
Which location was more favorable for growing crops? river valley, desert, forest, tundra
What was a disadvantage of the development of agriculture?

Look over the Lesson Reviews on Page 51 and 59

Study Hard
Good Luck!! You can do it!!

Remember Test on Tuesday

Test will incude all questions and vocabulary from this week.

Start thinking of a topic for your Social Studies fair projects. We will discuss the topics next week.

Have a good weekend!

Friday
Questions:

1. How did early people make their tools?
2. How did early people use these tools?
3. How would our life be different without some of these tools?
4. What tools could we do without?
5. What major change took place in the food supply of early people?
6. What new way of getting food changed societies?
7. how did early people become food producers?
8. What effect did this change have?
9. Why did farming societies feel a need to control land while hunter-gatherer societies did not?
10. Clearing forest land today affects the environment just as clearing wild plants did long ago. What were the effects then? What are they now?
11. What animals were domesticated? Which were used for food?

Review from the week:

1. How did early people get the food they needed to survive?
2. Why did early people work together?
3. For what purposes besides getting food might early people have worked together?
4. How do people in our society cooperate today?

Review vocabulary for test Tuesday.

Home work World History
World History

Homework Thursday 09-11-03
Test Tuesday Chapter discussions and vocabulary

Finish Vocabulary words (these start on pg. 56)

culture
domesticate
economy
livestock
nomad
agriculture
environment
maize
subsist

If you did not finish the words from Wednesday here is a list:

band
consequence
migration
Ice Age
tundra
culture
artifact
society
division of labor
role

Remember that your journal articles from Monday and Thursday are due on Friday ( in your speckle book journal)

Thanks
Mr. Robbins