Identify the early river civilizations including in Ancient Egypt, India, Mesopotamia, and China.

Identify the common elements between the early river civilizations.

Describe how early civilizations were based on the importance of agriculture.

Evaluate the function and importance of Hammurabi's Code.

Using the Standard of Ur, evaluate what was important to Mesopotamian society.

Describe the plight of the Hebrew people, and how their belief in monotheism was both a change for the world and problematic for them.

Describe how technology shaped Mesopotamia and contributed to the rise and fall of empires

Explain how government shaped the lives of Mesopotamians.