Narrative

Book/Page (oral/written;
DAY #s Section/Topic Dates topic) Summary (o/w?)

"What is History?";
Talking about
1 KHE/viii timeline
40,000-
KHE/3-5 World At A Glace 500BCE

40,000-
2 KHE/6-7 First Humans 10,000BCE

10,000BCE-
KHE/8 First Farmers 4000BC

5000-
3 KHE/9 Sumer and Akkad 1600BCE
Sumeria: Flood
legends and flood
History- story, City of Kish,
World.org/sum Gods and
4 eria.htm Goddesses

1600-
1200BCE;
The Hittites; 1900-
5 KHE/20-21 Babylon 700BCE

1900
(1500)-
6 KHE/22-23 The Assyrians 612BCE
7 Egypt
8 Egypt
9 Egypt
10 Egypt
11 Egypt
12 Egypt
13 Egypt
14 Egypt
 Supplemental
Reading/Other
Vocabulary Map Project/Trip Material
history, archeology,
artifacts, ecofacts,
primary source vs.
seconday source Put up timeline

BC vs. BCE
hominids, Homo habilis, PBS Evolution Game
Homo erectus, Homo (http://www.pbs.org/w
sapiens, Neanderthal, gbh/aso/tryit/evolutio
Cro-Magnon n/)

MOWH
agriculture, pg12; Fertile
domestication, irrigation Crescent Tellus Museum

MOWH
pg14; Tigris
River,
Mesopotamia, "cradle of Euphrates
civilization," ziggurat, River,
cuneiform, stylus, priest- Sumer, Gilgamesh the Hero
king, city-states, scribe, Akkad, Ur, (Geraldine
levees Kish McCaughrean)
listen to flood
story read
aloud,
cuneiform
writing on clay http://history-world.org/kish.htm, http://history
MOWH
pg21;
Babylonia;
Babylon; Hittite Warrior;
Hammurabi's Code; Ninevah; Ur; Eyewitness:
stela; relief; Assur Mesopotamia
MOWH pg
25; Babylon;
Ishtar; siege; Ninevah;
Ashurbanipal (669–626 Nimrud;
BCE); epic; library at Ashur;
Ninevah Khorsabad http://bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.
Key Timeline
Dates/People

40,000BCE (start of
human civilization)

10,000BCE (farmers
settle in fertile crescent;
domestication of animals
- dog)
5000BCE-1600BCE
(Sumerian civilization);
3200BCE (invention of
writing - cuneiform,
flooding of Kish); c.2700
(Gilgamesh), 2334BCE
(founding of city of
Akkad, led by Sargon I--
creator of first empire);
2100BCE (decline of
Akkad, rise of Ur)

1600-1200BCE (The
Hittites); 1900-700BCE
(Babylon); 1780-1750BCE
(Hammurabi the Great);
1595BCE (Hittites sack
Babylon)

Use key dates on pg 23

KHE