Mankind Story of All of Us: Episode 2 (Iron Men)

Recall key events and figures of the early Iron Age, including the discovery of iron, Spartan society, the Persian invasion of Greece and Emperor Qin Shi Huang

Connect new technologies — the phalanx, the crossbow, the keel, the Phoenician alphabet — to their effects on warfare, seafaring and written language

Capture information from a documentary in real time using fill-in-the-blank and short-answer notes

Tell students the questions run in the same order as the episode — the instructions box says the answers are chronological, which keeps viewers from hunting back and forth

Plan a pause at the short-answer item on Chinese iron production, the one question needing a full written response rather than a fact

Arrange access to the episode ahead of time; the worksheet accompanies the video but the video is not part of the download

Project or photocopy the key after viewing for self-checking or peer marking

Documentary comprehension — students answer eighteen questions in the order the episode presents them, from iron's discovery to the world's most widely read book.

World-history recall — questions cover Sparta and the spartan life, the Persian empire, the phalanx, Qin Shi Huang's Great Wall and mercury pills, the crossbow, the keel and the Phoenician alphabet.

Listening and note-taking — answers are captured live while the video plays, mixing fill-in-the-blank and short-answer formats.