Ancient Civilizations — Grade 6
Student & parent course guideReading libraryParent teaching plan · 36 weeks- Geography & the Tools of History
Pick up the geographer's and historian's toolkit: the Five Themes of Geography and how to read a map, how to tell a primary source from a secondary one, how to sort events in time and untangle cause from effect, and how the land itself shapes the way people live.
- Early Humans & the Neolithic Revolution
Journey from the wandering hunter-gatherers of the Stone Age to the farming revolution that let people finally settle down — and watch the first villages grow into the world's very first civilizations.
- River Civilizations of the Eastern Hemisphere
Travel back more than 5,000 years to meet the world's first great civilizations — the cities, god-kings, and inventions that grew up along the rivers of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and ancient China.
- Classical Civilizations & Belief Systems
Step into the classical worlds of Greece, Rome, India, and China, and meet the great belief systems — from Hinduism and Buddhism to Judaism, Christianity, and Confucianism — that still shape how billions of people live today.
- The Mediterranean World: Byzantine, Islamic & Western Societies
Compare institutions, belief communities and changing Mediterranean connections.
- Connections Across Africa, Asia & Europe
Follow camel caravans and sailing ships as trade, religion, and mighty empires wove Africa, Asia, and Europe together in the postclassical and medieval world. See how those connections set the stage for the modern era.