Paleolithic Settlements
Paleolithic People~Tools, Tasks, and Fire
Atlas
Use this atlas to work on you Daily History (Green sheet)!
http://www.hbschool.com/ss1/HSP_Atlas/norm_htm/world.htm
Ancient Civilizations:
Our Glencoe Social Studies Book Online
Here you can read the overview of each chapter and play some games with the information that we are learning in class!
Ancient Civilizations
What are the PERGS?
We will analyze the relationships between the political, economic, religious, social, and geographic structures of ancient civilizations such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Kush.
Culture Universals - those things that all people learn to do, though they do them differently from one place or time to another, including all of the following:
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art
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how people express their ideas, thoughts and feelings, through writing (literature), storytelling, painting, music, dance, etc. |
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economics
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work: how things are made (Jobs & Tools), distributed (Trade and Money) and used |
| social structure/daily life |
education, class system, judicial system, families, food/clothing/shelter |
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family
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a group of people who love and care for each other, share common needs and concerns, and call themselves a family
Types of families:
- Nuclear - father, mother and children
- Extended - nuclear family plus grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.
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languages
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how people express information, ideas and opinions to others, communication (sign, body, spoken, written, etc. )
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architecture
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housing, public buildings, unique design
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geography
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location, region, place, interaction with the environment, movement/migration
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government
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politics, power and how people use it to make decisions for themselves and others
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religion and mythology
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how people explain the unknown, and how they act on those beliefs -- values, world view, myths, legends
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technology
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tools, discoveries, inventions (economics)
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Civilizations we will study include the following:
History for Kids! Click here.