World History, Grades 9-12

42 Chapter 2 Work and Play in Ancient Egypt For ancient Egyptians, life often involved hard work. When the weather was good, mos ...

MORE ON WORK SurgeonsAncient Egypt had skilled surgeons. Written evidence shows that Egyptian surgeons knew how to stitch cuts ...

44 Chapter 2 MAIN IDEA WHY IT MATTERS NOW TERMS & NAMES INTERACTION WITH ENVIRONMENTThe first Indian civilization built well ...

Monsoons Seasonal winds called monsoonsdominate India’s climate. From October to February, winter monsoons from the northeast bl ...

46 Chapter 2 Civilization Emerges on the Indus Historians know less about the civilization in the Indus Valley than about those ...

Plumbing Facts The ancient Romans also built sophisticated plumbing and sewage systems. Aqueducts supplied Roman cities with wa ...

48 Chapter 2 Harappan Culture Harappan culture spread throughout the Indus valley. Like the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizati ...

Indus Valley Culture Ends Around 1750 B.C., the quality of building in the Indus Valley cities declined. Gradually, the great ci ...

50 Chapter 2 MAIN IDEA WHY IT MATTERS NOW TERMS & NAMES POWER AND AUTHORITYThe early rulers introduced ideas about governmen ...

Chang Jiang in eastern China. This plain, known as the North China Plain, is China’s heartland. Throughout China’s long history, ...

52 Chapter 2 The Shang Dynasty lasted from around 1700 B.C. to 1027 B.C. It was the first family of Chinese rulers to leave writ ...

or disaster to living members of the family. The Chinese did not regard these spirits as mighty gods. Rather, the spirits were m ...

54 Chapter 2 Zhou and the Dynastic Cycle Around 1027 B.C., a people called the Zhou (joh) overthrew the Shang and estab- lished ...

Peoples who had been hostile toward the lords gradually accepted their rule and adopted Zhou ways. As a result, the local lords ...

45º Early River Valley Civilizations Tigris and Euphrates flooding unpredictable No natural barriers Limited natural resources ...

Early River Valley Civilizations 57 1.InteractwithHistory On page 28, you looked at the justice of Hammurabi’s Code. Now that yo ...

People and Ideas on the Move, 2000 B.C.–250 B.C. Previewing Main Ideas Early peoples often migrated from their lands to find new ...

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Why might you leave your homeland? When your family, along with many others, decided to leave its homeland, you wondered whether ...

CategorizingUse a web diagram to record some of the languages that stem from Indo-European. TAKING NOTES Indo-European People an ...