01-Early+Man+and+Civilizations

=Standards Covered in this Unit: =

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 * 1) Trace the approximate chronology and territorial range of early human communities, and analyze the processes that led to their development.
 * 2) Describe types of evidence and methods of investigation by which scholars have reconstructed the early history of domestication, agricultural settlement and cultural development.
 * 3) Describe social, cultural and economic characteristics of large agricultural settlements on the basis of evidence gathered by archaeologists.
 * 1)  Define civilization and identify the key differences between civilizations and other forms of social organization.
 * 1) Compare causes and conditions by which civilizations developed in North Africa, Southwest Asia, South Asia and East Asia, and explain why the emergence of these civilizations was a decisive transformation in human history.
 * 1) Differentiate hierarchies in the social structures of early civilized peoples and explain the influence of religious belief systems upon ancient governmental systems.
 * 1) Explain relationships in early civilizations between the development of state authority and the growth of aristocratic power, taxation systems and institutions of coerced labor, including slavery.
 * Chapter 1-The Beginning of Civilization
 * Chapter 2-The Ancient Near East (Mesopotamia, Sumer, Hittites, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Phoenicians, Hebrews, Persians)
 * Chapter 3-Nile Civilizations (Egypt, Nubia)
 * Chapter 4-Ancient India and China