For millennia, mankind has been trying to understand its place in the world. It constantly strives to answer the fundamental question of our existence: where did we come from? Throughout history, a variety of different theories have shaped how humanity sees itself and its relationship with the universe. From religious beliefs to scientific discoveries and cultural traditions, each idea has added something unique when it comes to exploring this topic. With this blog post, we take a look at "Mankind - The Story Of Us All": the formative forces that influence our understanding of ourselves and those around us. We dive into how various historical figures, events and movements have molded how people see their identity; examining everything from ancient philosophy to modern gender politics. Join us as we explore what makes up Mankind!
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MANKIND: THE STORY OF ALL OF US
EPISODE 2: IRON MEN
THIS WORKSHEET SET INCLUDES, IN ORDER, A
EPISODE SUMMARY FROM THE HISTORY CHANNEL: Rogue pirates plunder the Mediterranean coast, signaling
Keys Include: Alphabet, Iron, Democracy, Monotheism, Ship building
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Name _________________________________ Date ______________________ # ________
Mankind: The Story of All of Us
Episode 2: Iron Men
from The History Channel Series Mankind: The Story of All of Us
History Channel episode description: A mysterious band of pirates plunders the Mediterranean
SEA PEOPLE |
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1.The Nile Delta of Egypt, ____________________ years before Christ. Mankind’s greatest civilizations falling one by one. A new ____________________. Egyptians call them the
____________________. Hungry. Violent. Their origin a ____________________ even today.
2.A thousand years after the age of the pyramids, even mighty ____________________ faces destruction. Around the ____________________, great cities and empires are swept away by peoples on the move. ____________________, the Mycenaeans in Greece, the Hittite empire of Turkey.
3.Chaos rules. Trade dries ____________________. Supplies of bronze, the lifeblood of civilization, dwindle to ____________________. Mankind faces the collapse of thousands of years of
____________________.
DISCOVERY OF IRON |
3:55 |
4.What key to our future do a group of pioneering metal workers uncover on an island in the eastern Mediterranean? ________________________________
5.What age do we still live in today? ____________________________________
6.Alashiya, Cypress. An island named after its rich resources of ____________________. But the supply of rare tin to make bronze from copper has ____________________ up. Faced with ruin, metal workers make a ____________________ that will change the future of mankind.
7.What material do the rusty red rocks found all over the island contain?
____________________
8.Born in the heart of an exploding supernova star, iron forms the earth’s
____________________ core, larger than the moon, hot as the ____________________. Without it, no atmosphere, no magnetic field, no ____________________. The fourth most common
____________________ in the earth’s crust.
9.What super fuel is needed to forge iron? ________________________________
10.Iron and charcoal ____________________ the surface of the planet. In Europe alone, 70 million acres of trees, an area bigger than ____________________, are felled to feed iron foundries, creating the ____________________ of the world we know today.
11.What does iron usher in? _________________________________
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SPARTA & ATHENS |
8:15 |
12.What Greek society is dedicated to war? ____________________________
13.Their leader: Pausanias. A ____________________ of Sparta, acting
____________________ square miles. The Persian Empire, more than a ____________________.
14.In Sparta, from the age of ____________________, boys are trained as warriors. At
____________________, they join Sparta’s army, the most fearsome, most disciplined
____________________ force on earth.
15.True or False. A Spartan life is a life filled with luxury.
16.Spartans are armed with the best weapons of the day, ____________________ and
____________________ of iron.
17.Within Greece, Sparta’s rival: ____________________. Also small, vulnerable. A city of
____________________, ____________________, and ____________________.
18.The small
19.Who is the ordinary Athenian citizen that will become a military legend? _________________
20.Political decisions in Athens are made not by ____________________, but by its armed
____________________, men like Sophacles. A new political system, a legacy still shaping civilization today: ____________________.
21.True or False. Women were allowed to vote in Athens.
22.What does a black stone mean? ____________________
23.What does a white stone mean? ____________________
24.What is the will of the people? _______________________________________________
25.August, ____________________, near the coast of Greece. Bitter rivals lay aside their differences to ____________________ their lands against a mighty empire. The Persians:
____________________ conscripted soldiers from across the ancient world. On the other side,
____________________ patriots.
26.The Persian commander, ____________________, believes superior numbers will be the key to an easy Persian ____________________.
27.The future of western civilization is being decided in ____________________. Greek allies have held off a Persian army of 100,000 for more than a ____________________. They are exhausted, outnumbered ____________________. Spartan leader ____________________ and Athenian militiaman, ____________________, prepare to make a last stand.
28.What new tactic do the Greeks unleash? ___________________________________
29.The phalanx- a human ____________________. The Greeks ____________________ the Persian advance. Soldiers scatter.
30.Pausanias will be remembered as the Spartan commander who ____________________ the war. Sophanes, as the ____________________ of all Athenians. With the help of
____________________ weapons, people power has resisted tyranny.
31.What monument is generated to commemorate the victory? _______________________
32.How long did it take to build the monument? __________________________
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33.A temple to ____________________, goddess of wisdom, will become a
____________________ of democracy.
RISE OF CHINA |
22:20 |
34.In the ____________________, iron helps
5,000 miles to the ____________________, it’s one of the building blocks of the world’s most enduring empire: ____________________.
35.True or False. Shi Huang Di, the first emperor of China, is on a journey to find the secret of eternal life.
36.What was crucial to Shi Huang Di’s success? ______________________________
37.True or False. Mankind’s industrial future can be traced back to Shi Huang Di’s rule.
38.The liquid iron is cast into ____________________ to produce identical objects, by the thousands. Two hundred years before Christ, the birth of ____________________. A technological revolution driven by one of the greatest game changers: ____________________.
39.What new weapon will transform the way we fight? ___________________________
40.Bolts with an ____________________ core, fired at a high velocity, nearly a
____________________ mile. Easy to use. With just a few days’ training, foot
____________________ become killing machines.
41.A new ____________________: standardized, ____________________ parts.
42.True or False. American gun makers were some of the first, after the Chinese, to make weapons using standardized mass produced parts.
43.Armed with the ____________________, the armies of the first emperor storm across six warring ____________________. In just ____________________ years he conquers more than a million square miles. ____________________ million people.
44.To ____________________ his new empire, the first emperor begins perhaps the most ambitious ____________________ project in the story of mankind: The Great
____________________ of China.
45.True or False. The Great Wall was designed to hold back the nomadic hordes of Europe.
46.How many years did it take to build The Great Wall of China? ____________________
47.____________________ tablets prescribed by his doctors to make him
____________________ are destroying his brain and ____________________.
48.Aged ____________________, Shi Huang Di, China’s first emperor,
____________________.
49.List three things that are buried with the emperor.
a.________________________________________________________________
b.________________________________________________________________
c.________________________________________________________________
THE PHOENICIANS |
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50.While in ____________________ the Age of Iron forges an empire, off the coast of
____________________, a fleet sails on an expedition that launches mankind’s first great age of
____________________. Leading a fleet of 60 ships, ____________________, king of Carthage. He’s on one of the first recorded voyages of ____________________.
51.True or False. Hanno’s people are the Phoenicians, the best shipbuilders in the world.
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52.What is a revolutionary invention for shipbuilding that keeps ships stable in the roughest waters? _______________________________________
53.Hanno has sailed from the Mediterranean into uncharted waters: the ____________________
Ocean. With 30,000 colonists he is looking for new ____________________, new
____________________.
54.The first written description of Mount Cameroon, the largest ____________________ in West
____________________. Recorded using a revolutionary new writing technology: the
____________________.
55.How many letters does the Phoenician alphabet have? ___________________________
56.True or False. The alphabet is one of the keys to the future of communication.
57.What other extraordinary thing does Hanno encounter? ___________________________
58.What ____________________ and ____________________ to Lebanon, Tunisia, Cypress, Sicily, and the island of Ibiza. As they expand, so does knowledge of the ____________________.
BABYLON |
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59.What book is created in Babylon using the alphabet? ____________________________
60.____________________ in the Middle East, a great city famed for its hanging
____________________. Here, a ____________________ revolution is underway.
61.Across the world, local ____________________ give way to powerful new beliefs, spread by the written ____________________. World faiths still with us today. Hinduism unites much of
____________________. From the foothills of the Himalayas, the words of ____________________
spread out across Asia. And in ____________________, the writings of Confucius will help order the lives of one quarter of the world.
62.In Babylon’s ____________________, a group of exiles use their own alphabet, in the language of ____________________, to write down the history and beliefs of their people. Two generations ago, Babylonia conquered ____________________. Destroyed its temple to the Jewish
____________________ Yahweh, exiled the ____________________ to Babylon. Now captives in a foreign land, the Jews begin what will become the most influential ____________________ in the story of mankind: the ____________________.
63.What revolutionary idea do the Jews create? ___________________________________
64.But for the ____________________ of Babylon, the word of God is under threat. The city is sieged by the armies of the ____________________ Empire. If it falls, their fragile
____________________ could go up in flames.
65.True or False. Zerubbabel was an exiled prince and descendant of kings Solomon and David.
66.What does Zerubabbel decide to do? _________________________________________
67.How many families leave with Zerubabbel? ____________________________________
68.What is the sacred city for Zerubabbel? _______________________________________
69.Carrying with them words that will become the Old ____________________ of the Bible, the most widely read ____________________ in the world. 6 ____________________ copies printed over the last ____________________ years.
70.____________________ has opened a new age for mankind, transforming
____________________, forging new ____________________, changing the way we
____________________. Now a new kind of empire will rise: ____________________.
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