Social Studies

Unit 1: Early Humans and Societies

2.1 The First People

2.2 Early Human Migration

2.3 Beginnings of Agriculture

Unit 2: Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Kush

3.1 Geography of the Fertile Crescent

3.2 The Rise of Sumer

3.3 Sumerian Achievements

3.4 Later Peoples of the Fertile Crescent

4.1 Geography and Early Egypt

4.2 The Old Kingdom

4.3 The Middle and New Kingdoms

4.4 Egyptian Achievements

Unit 4: Foundations of Western Ideas

8.1: The Early Hebrews

8.2 Jewish Beliefs and Texts

8.3 Judaism over the Centuries

9.1 Geography and the Early Greeks

9.2 Government in Athens

9.3 Greek Mythology and Literature

10.1 Greece and Persia

10.2 Sparta and Athens

10.3 Alexander the Great

10.4 Greek Achievements

Unit 5: The Roman World

11.1 Geography and the Rise of Rome

11.2 Government and Society

11.3 The Late Republic

12.1 From Republic to Empire

12.2 A Vast Empire

12.3 Rome's Legacy

13.1 Religion in the Roman Empire

13.2 Origins of Christianity

13.3 The Early Christian World

14.1 Fall of the Western Roman Empire

14.2 The Byzantine Empire