Social Studies - 2019-20
WHI.3e - Development of Language and Writing
The student will apply social science skills to understand the ancient river valley civilizations, including those of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus River Valley, and China and the civilizations of the Hebrews and Phoenicians, by
e) explaining the development of language and writing.
BIG IDEAS
How did civilizations gain, consolidate, maintain, and lose their power?
Do the benefits of innovation outweigh the costs?
How does our environment affect us? How do we affect it?
UNDERSTANDING THE STANDARD
Language and writing were important cultural innovations because they facilitated the preservation and spread of knowledge.
ESSENTIALS
Language and writing
Pictograms: Earliest written symbols
Hieroglyphics: Egypt
Cuneiform: Sumer
Alphabet: Phoenicia
Sanskrit: India
Oracle bone script: China
KEY VOCABULARY
Terms
Civilization (3a)
Division of labor (3a)
Cultural diffusion (3a)
Code of Hammurabi (3b)
Theocracy (3b)
City state (3b)
Dynasty (3b)
Empire (3b)
Divine (3b)
Barter (3b)
Slavery (3b)
Ziggurat (3c)
Polytheism (3c)
Monotheism (3c)
Judaism (3d)
Diaspora (3d)
Exile (3d)
Torah (3d)
Ten Commandments (3d)
Jerusalem (3d)
Christianity (3d)
Islam (3d)
Pictograms (3e)
Cuneiform (3e)
Hieroglyphics (3e)
Alphabet (3e)People
Hebrews (3a)
Phoenicians (3a)
Hammurabi (3b)
Jews (3d)
Abraham (3d)
Moses (3d)
Places
River Valley Civilizations (3a)
Mesopotamia (3a)
Fertile Crescent (3a)
Sumer (3a)
Egypt (3a)
India (3a)
Indus (3a)
China (3a)
Shang (3a)
Tigris & Euphrates Rivers (3a)
Nile River (3a)
Indus River (3a)
Huang He River (3a)
Jordan River
Nubia (3a)
Babylon (3a)