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Unit 2
Early Agrarian Societies
Start
Ethical Question
Did cities benefit humanity? How do we balance competing interests when people's basic needs conflict?
Learning Objectives
- Investigate the development of agrarian societies.
- Understand the causes and effects of the development of cities and states.
- Analyze the causes and consequences of urbanization and expanding networks of exchange.
- Investigate the characteristics of the first states and the qualities that united people living there.
Agenda
- Warm-Up & Lesson Goals - 10
- Homework
- WeConnect
- Review - 10
- Data Collection Review- 15
- Break - 5
- What is an Empire? Extension - 15
- Wrap Up - 5
Lesson 2 - Ethical Debate Presentation
Lesson 3 - Growth of Cities
Lesson 1 - Cities, Societies, & Empires
Lesson INDEX
Break - Escape Room
Lesson 4 - States & Empires
Cities, Societies, & Empires
The Rise in Farming
Early Agrarian Societies
Thanks to farming, humans built cities, empires, and long-distance trade routes. What can the story of a boy named Iddin-Sin tell us about these changes?
Cities, Societies, and Empires
Explore how some of these communities grew into powerful states and empires, and how those changes shaped life—for both for the people within them and the wider world.
+ 10/2/25 Notes
Village, City, or State?
Use what you’ve learned about complex societies in this lesson to evaluate the pros and cons of living in different types of communities.
+ 10/2/25 Notes
Ethical Debate
Complete the Presentation
States & Empires
What’s a state? What’s an empire?
DESIGN CHALLENGE
Create a board or card game that:
- Teaches at least 3 characteristics of early states
- Incorporates agricultural themes that show the connection between farming and state formation
- Is playable in 5-10 minutes with 2-4 players
- Includes clear instructions
- Shows evidence of research by including at least one concept directly from your research materials
What is a State?
Watch the video and read the article to collect data on early states.
+ Nearpod
Design an original game.
03
Design challenge
From States to Empires
Key Concepts
State - Empire - Conquest and expansion - Center-periphery relationship - Administrative control - Resource extraction - Cultural/political dominance*
+ why?
Design Challenge
Modify your existing state-building game to teach players about the key characteristics of early empires and how they emerged from states.
- Step 1: Canva Venn Diagram:
- Compare and contrast empires vs. states using provided resources
- Step 2. Infographic Creation:
- Synthesize key characteristics of early empires
- Step 3. Game Design Extension:
- Apply empire concepts to your legacy game
What is an Empire?
Read the articles and collect 10-20 pieces of data to compare and contrast what you know about states and empires.
+ Whiteboard
Break
Ready for something fun?
Share your screen and let's begin the Escape Room!
Design your Empire Expansion
- Explain how players conquer or control new territories
- Show the relationship between your empire's center and periphery
- Include at least one administrative method (governors, tribute, laws)
- Identify benefits and costs of empire-building
+ Nearpod
Exit Ticket
Define, Reflect, or Connect
Visual content is a transversal, universal language, like music. We are able to understand images from millions of years ago, even from other cultures.
Disciplines like Visual Thinking facilitate visually rich note-taking thanks to the use of images, graphs, infographics, and simple drawings. Go for it!
¿Tienes una idea?
Con las plantillas de Genially podrás incluir recursos visuales para dejar a tu audiencia con la boca abierta. También destacar alguna frase o dato concreto que se quede grabado a fuego en la memoria de tu público e incluso embeber contenido externo que sorprenda: vídeos, fotos, audios... ¡Lo que tú quieras!
Write a great headline
Showing enthusiasm, flashing a smile, and maintaining eye contact with your audience can be your best allies when it comes to telling stories that excite and pique the interest of the public: 'The eyes, chico. They never lie'. This will help you make a match with your audience. Leave them speechless!
With this function...
You can add additional content that excites your audience's brain: videos, images, links, interactivity... Whatever you want!
Write an awesome headline
Showing enthusiasm, flashing a smile, and maintaining eye contact with your audience can be your best allies when telling stories that excite and capture the interest of the public: 'The eyes, chico. They never lie'. This will help you make a match with your audience. Leave them speechless!
Why Create Empires?
- Control trade routes and resources - Increase wealth and power - Spread culture, religion, or ideology - Gain security through expansion
Write an awesome text by clicking on Text in the left sidebar. Note: the fonts, size, and color should be adjusted to the topic you are discussing.
Write an awesome headline
Interactivity and animation can be your best allies when it comes to creating tables, infographics, or graphics that help provide context to the information and simplify the data for your audience's understanding. We are visual beings and it's easier for us to 'read' images than to read a written text.
Did you know that Genially allows you to share your creation directly, without the need for downloads? Ready for your audience to view it on any device and spread it anywhere.
Do you have an idea?
With Genially templates, you can include visual resources to leave your audience amazed. You can also highlight a phrase or specific piece of information that will be etched into the memory of your audience, and even embed external content that surprises: videos, photos, audios... Whatever you want!
Write awesome text by clicking on Text in the left sidebar. Note: the fonts, size, and color should be appropriate to the topic you are addressing.
Write an awesome headline
Interactivity and animation can be your best allies when creating tables, infographics, or charts that help provide context to information and simplify data for translation to your audience. We are visual beings and find it easier to 'read' images than to read written text.
Visual content is a universal, cross-cutting language, like music. We are able to understand images from millions of years ago, even from other cultures.
Do you have an idea?
With Genially templates, you can include visual resources to leave your audience stunned. You can also highlight a specific phrase or fact that will stay engraved in your audience's memory, and even embed surprising external content: videos, photos, audios... Whatever you want!
Write a great headline
Interactivity and animation can be your best allies when creating tables, infographics, or charts that help provide context to information and simplify data for your audience. We are visual beings and find it easier to 'read' images than to read written text.
Did you know that Genially allows you to share your creation directly, without the need for downloads? Ready for your audience to view it on any device and spread it anywhere.
Write a great headline
With Genially templates, you can include visual resources to leave your audience amazed. You can also highlight a specific phrase or data that will be engraved in the memory of your audience, and even embed external content that surprises: videos, photos, audios... whatever you want!
Write an awesome headline
With Genially templates, you can include visual resources to leave your audience amazed. You can also highlight specific phrases or data that will be ingrained in the memory of your audience, and even embed external content that surprises: videos, photos, audios... whatever you want!
Did you know that Genially allows you to share your creation directly, without the need for downloads? Ready for your audience to view it on any device and spread it anywhere.
¿Tienes una idea?
Con las plantillas de Genially podrás incluir recursos visuales para dejar a tu audiencia con la boca abierta. También destacar alguna frase o dato concreto que se quede grabado a fuego en la memoria de tu público e incluso embeber contenido externo que sorprenda: vídeos, fotos, audios... ¡Lo que tú quieras!
Write an awesome headline
We better grasp visual content. Visual content is associated with cognitive and psychological mechanisms. Things enter through the eyes, the first image is what counts. We associate visual content with emotions.
Do you have an idea?
With Genially templates, you can include visual resources to leave your audience speechless. You can also highlight a specific phrase or fact that will be etched in your audience's memory and even embed surprising external content: videos, photos, audios... Whatever you want!
¿Tienes una idea?
Con las plantillas de Genially podrás incluir recursos visuales para dejar a tu audiencia con la boca abierta. También destacar alguna frase o dato concreto que se quede grabado a fuego en la memoria de tu público e incluso embeber contenido externo que sorprenda: vídeos, fotos, audios... ¡Lo que tú quieras!
Disciplines like Visual Thinking make it easier to visually capture rich notes using images, charts, infographics, and simple drawings. Go for it!
Write a great headline
Interactivity and animation can be your best allies when it comes to creating tables, infographics, or graphics that help provide context to the information and simplify the data for translation to your audience. We are visual beings and find it easier to 'read' images than to read written text.
Did you know that Genially allows you to share your creation directly, without the need to download it? Ready for your audience to view it on any device and spread it anywhere.
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great
Unit 2
Early Agrarian Societies
Start
Ethical Question
Did cities benefit humanity? How do we balance competing interests when people's basic needs conflict?
Learning Objectives
Agenda
Lesson 2 - Ethical Debate Presentation
Lesson 3 - Growth of Cities
Lesson 1 - Cities, Societies, & Empires
Lesson INDEX
Break - Escape Room
Lesson 4 - States & Empires
Cities, Societies, & Empires
The Rise in Farming
Early Agrarian Societies
Thanks to farming, humans built cities, empires, and long-distance trade routes. What can the story of a boy named Iddin-Sin tell us about these changes?
Cities, Societies, and Empires
Explore how some of these communities grew into powerful states and empires, and how those changes shaped life—for both for the people within them and the wider world.
+ 10/2/25 Notes
Village, City, or State?
Use what you’ve learned about complex societies in this lesson to evaluate the pros and cons of living in different types of communities.
+ 10/2/25 Notes
Ethical Debate
Complete the Presentation
States & Empires
What’s a state? What’s an empire?
DESIGN CHALLENGE
Create a board or card game that:
What is a State?
Watch the video and read the article to collect data on early states.
+ Nearpod
Design an original game.
03
Design challenge
From States to Empires
Key Concepts
State - Empire - Conquest and expansion - Center-periphery relationship - Administrative control - Resource extraction - Cultural/political dominance*
+ why?
Design Challenge
Modify your existing state-building game to teach players about the key characteristics of early empires and how they emerged from states.
What is an Empire?
Read the articles and collect 10-20 pieces of data to compare and contrast what you know about states and empires.
+ Whiteboard
Break
Ready for something fun?
Share your screen and let's begin the Escape Room!
Design your Empire Expansion
+ Nearpod
Exit Ticket
Define, Reflect, or Connect
Visual content is a transversal, universal language, like music. We are able to understand images from millions of years ago, even from other cultures.
Disciplines like Visual Thinking facilitate visually rich note-taking thanks to the use of images, graphs, infographics, and simple drawings. Go for it!
¿Tienes una idea?
Con las plantillas de Genially podrás incluir recursos visuales para dejar a tu audiencia con la boca abierta. También destacar alguna frase o dato concreto que se quede grabado a fuego en la memoria de tu público e incluso embeber contenido externo que sorprenda: vídeos, fotos, audios... ¡Lo que tú quieras!
Write a great headline
Showing enthusiasm, flashing a smile, and maintaining eye contact with your audience can be your best allies when it comes to telling stories that excite and pique the interest of the public: 'The eyes, chico. They never lie'. This will help you make a match with your audience. Leave them speechless!
With this function...
You can add additional content that excites your audience's brain: videos, images, links, interactivity... Whatever you want!
Write an awesome headline
Showing enthusiasm, flashing a smile, and maintaining eye contact with your audience can be your best allies when telling stories that excite and capture the interest of the public: 'The eyes, chico. They never lie'. This will help you make a match with your audience. Leave them speechless!
Why Create Empires?
- Control trade routes and resources - Increase wealth and power - Spread culture, religion, or ideology - Gain security through expansion
Write an awesome text by clicking on Text in the left sidebar. Note: the fonts, size, and color should be adjusted to the topic you are discussing.
Write an awesome headline
Interactivity and animation can be your best allies when it comes to creating tables, infographics, or graphics that help provide context to the information and simplify the data for your audience's understanding. We are visual beings and it's easier for us to 'read' images than to read a written text.
Did you know that Genially allows you to share your creation directly, without the need for downloads? Ready for your audience to view it on any device and spread it anywhere.
Do you have an idea?
With Genially templates, you can include visual resources to leave your audience amazed. You can also highlight a phrase or specific piece of information that will be etched into the memory of your audience, and even embed external content that surprises: videos, photos, audios... Whatever you want!
Write awesome text by clicking on Text in the left sidebar. Note: the fonts, size, and color should be appropriate to the topic you are addressing.
Write an awesome headline
Interactivity and animation can be your best allies when creating tables, infographics, or charts that help provide context to information and simplify data for translation to your audience. We are visual beings and find it easier to 'read' images than to read written text.
Visual content is a universal, cross-cutting language, like music. We are able to understand images from millions of years ago, even from other cultures.
Do you have an idea?
With Genially templates, you can include visual resources to leave your audience stunned. You can also highlight a specific phrase or fact that will stay engraved in your audience's memory, and even embed surprising external content: videos, photos, audios... Whatever you want!
Write a great headline
Interactivity and animation can be your best allies when creating tables, infographics, or charts that help provide context to information and simplify data for your audience. We are visual beings and find it easier to 'read' images than to read written text.
Did you know that Genially allows you to share your creation directly, without the need for downloads? Ready for your audience to view it on any device and spread it anywhere.
Write a great headline
With Genially templates, you can include visual resources to leave your audience amazed. You can also highlight a specific phrase or data that will be engraved in the memory of your audience, and even embed external content that surprises: videos, photos, audios... whatever you want!
Write an awesome headline
With Genially templates, you can include visual resources to leave your audience amazed. You can also highlight specific phrases or data that will be ingrained in the memory of your audience, and even embed external content that surprises: videos, photos, audios... whatever you want!
Did you know that Genially allows you to share your creation directly, without the need for downloads? Ready for your audience to view it on any device and spread it anywhere.
¿Tienes una idea?
Con las plantillas de Genially podrás incluir recursos visuales para dejar a tu audiencia con la boca abierta. También destacar alguna frase o dato concreto que se quede grabado a fuego en la memoria de tu público e incluso embeber contenido externo que sorprenda: vídeos, fotos, audios... ¡Lo que tú quieras!
Write an awesome headline
We better grasp visual content. Visual content is associated with cognitive and psychological mechanisms. Things enter through the eyes, the first image is what counts. We associate visual content with emotions.
Do you have an idea?
With Genially templates, you can include visual resources to leave your audience speechless. You can also highlight a specific phrase or fact that will be etched in your audience's memory and even embed surprising external content: videos, photos, audios... Whatever you want!
¿Tienes una idea?
Con las plantillas de Genially podrás incluir recursos visuales para dejar a tu audiencia con la boca abierta. También destacar alguna frase o dato concreto que se quede grabado a fuego en la memoria de tu público e incluso embeber contenido externo que sorprenda: vídeos, fotos, audios... ¡Lo que tú quieras!
Disciplines like Visual Thinking make it easier to visually capture rich notes using images, charts, infographics, and simple drawings. Go for it!
Write a great headline
Interactivity and animation can be your best allies when it comes to creating tables, infographics, or graphics that help provide context to the information and simplify the data for translation to your audience. We are visual beings and find it easier to 'read' images than to read written text.
Did you know that Genially allows you to share your creation directly, without the need to download it? Ready for your audience to view it on any device and spread it anywhere.