Ms. Culp – World History August 31, 2012 – FRIDAY! Grab your spiral or a piece of paper from the back Take your seat Begin work, in your spiral, on the warm-up silently Warm-up: If you were to invent a written language would you make it based on lines and letters or would you make it based on pictures? Why?
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7 Characteristics of Civilization 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Indus River Valley Indus River Plain Social Structure Technology What two rivers? What disadvantage? Social Structure Caste system Technology Inventions?
Egypt!
Egypt! Nile River Valley Disadvantages: The Nile River Delta The Nile River and the Mediterranean Sea The Nile is the longest river in the world! The Nile, while it does flood annually, it does do like clockwork – same time every single year Disadvantages: Surrounded by desert, they were isolated The Nile River Delta A DELTA is a large marshy area that forms a triangle at the mouth of a river – very fertile
Egypt
Egypt Social Structure Slave-based society Unlike the Indus River caste system, you could move up One ruler – PHARAOH: god-kings The Egyptians thought that their kings, or pharaohs, were actually gods and worshipped them They also believed that the pharaohs could rule after death and that their Ka, or spirit, needed a home so they built the PYRAMIDS We are going to look more at this on Tuesday when we work with mummies and the afterlife…
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Egypt Stable Food Supply Religion Like all of our River Valley Civilizations, the Egyptians were farmers Religion Very complex POLYTHEISTIC religion Pharaohs were gods and there were gods (more than 2,000!) for all aspects of life A trinity: the most important gods were Ra, god of sun, Horus, god of light and Isis, goddess of motherhood A very strong belief in a rich afterlife
Egypt Government Writing Theocracy – the pharaohs were religious figures The pharaohs were absolute kings – total control Writing Hieroglyphics! They were small pictures, which not only represented ideas (what was pictured) but also sounds (like letters) First wrote on stone and clay tablets but invented PAPYRUS – one of the first instances of paper Papyrus is a reed that they would split and mash and dry
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Hieroglyphic Typewriter Egypt Hieroglyphic Typewriter
Egypt Technology Papyrus Building techniques – the pyramids, obelisks, the lighthouse at Alexandria, the Sphinx Improvement of the sail Advancements in medicine Beds! Piercings, tattoos, wigs Electricity (just a theory)
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Egypt Inside the Pyramids
Walk Like An Egyptian, The Bangles Egypt Ticket Out Give 2 reasons why having a writing system that is made of pictures which only represent concepts can lead to the death of that writing form. Explain. Walk Like An Egyptian, The Bangles