Bellringer

• What is the purpose of the Dynastic Cycle?

LOTS to do today – the more we do, the more prepared you will be for the test

Unit 2 test Oct 10th!!!!!!!

Agenda

1. Map Quiz2. Huang He River Valley3. River Valleys Review

Objectives

Students will be able to…20. Describe ancient Chinese

dynasties and religious beliefs.21. Summarize the major features of

the Huang He river valley civilization.

Map QUIZ

Huang He River Valley

Objective #21

Geography of China

Geography

• Huang He (Yellow River)–“River of Sorrow”

• Lots of silt – good farm land

GeographyMesopotamia

(Sumer’s disadvantages)Huang He Valley

Unpredictable flooding Unpredictable flooding

No natural defensive barriers

Deserts (Gobi) and mountains (Himalayas)

No natural resources Plenty of resources

Geography

• Add this note: –China is isolated from the other

River Valleys–Mesopotamia trades with India

and Egypt

Dynasties

• Shang Dynasty–Invent writing–Oracle bones

• Zhou take over–Mandate of Heaven–Work in bronze and silk

Religion and Society

• Ancestor worship, oracle bones• Strength of family relationships• Large peasant underclass–Merchants not respected, unlike

Mesopotamia, why?

Summarize!

River Valley Review

Egypt Terms

• Pharaoh and theocracy• Pharaoh, mummification, pyramids,

religion

• Upper and Lower Egypt

Sumer Statements

• Sumer was a Mesopotamia.• Sumer was a river valley.• Sumer was a polytheism.• Sumer was a country.• Sumer was an empire.

Sumer Statements

• Mesopotamia is in Sumer.• Each city in Sumer had its own river

valley.• There is more than one Fertile

Crescent.• Sumerians spoke in cuneiform.

Skills Quiz Review

• Oceans: Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic• Southern continent is Antarctica.

Ant- means the opposite –(anti-; protagonist and antagonist)

Skills Quiz Review

• We are in 2010 AD. You could also say 2010 CE. AD = CE• BCE = BC–Before Common Era; Before Christ.

Refers to same time period

Skills Quiz Review• BC is before AD. BCE is same as BC,

not before BCE. –There is no before BC

• BC works like negative numbers – count down to 0, then up in AD–600 BC happened before 400 BC–400 BC happened before 600 AD

Review Time!

• First, complete the India-China map• Then, get a review packet–Complete all pages!–Take it with you to study!–Due the day of the test!