1. What Were Early Civilizations Like?
Unit 3 – Lesson 3
What Were Early Civilizations Like?

2. This lesson will focus on Mesopotamia and Egypt.

3. What was life like in Era 2?
Historical Inquiry
What was life like in Era 2?

4. What was life like in Era 2?
What types of evidence would help answer the question?

5. Types of Sources
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources

8. Read the text and highlight new information.

10. Read the text and highlight new information.

11. Historian Tools Significance Social Institutions Time Space
(Temporal Frame)
Space
(Spatial Scale)
When something happened
Being worthy of a historian’s attention
Education
Religion
Government
Family
Economy
Language
Where something happened

13. Primary Sources are created in the time period being studied.
present some sort of personal knowledge.
represent the perspective and bias of the author.
are not based on any other existing sources.
can offer an insider’s view of a time period.

16. Small Group Activity

17. What was life like in Era 2?
Primary and Secondary

18. What was life like in Era 2?

19. An Example

20. Writing an historical account of life in Era 2
Choose Mesopotamia or Egypt
Review the secondary and primary sources you have read.
Use evidence from at least three of the sources.
Write for an audience of 6th graders who don’t know anything about world history yet.

21. Lesson Summary Egypt Mesopotamia GOVERNMENT ECONOMICS WRITING
 Egypt
Mesopotamia
 GOVERNMENT
 ECONOMICS   
WRITING
 TECHNOLOGY
 FAMILY
 RELIGION

22. Lesson Summary Egypt Mesopotamia GOVERNMENT Ruled by ? ECONOMICS
 Egypt
Mesopotamia
 GOVERNMENT
 Ruled by ?
 ECONOMICS   
WRITING
 TECHNOLOGY
 FAMILY
 RELIGION

23. Lesson Summary Egypt Mesopotamia GOVERNMENT Ruled by Pharaohs
 Egypt
Mesopotamia
 GOVERNMENT
 Ruled by Pharaohs
 Ruled by Kings
 ECONOMICS   
WRITING
 TECHNOLOGY
 FAMILY
 RELIGION

24. Lesson Summary Egypt Mesopotamia GOVERNMENT Ruled by Pharaohs
 Egypt
Mesopotamia
 GOVERNMENT
 Ruled by Pharaohs
 Ruled by Kings
 ECONOMICS
Farmers
Collected Tribute/Taxes
Specialization   
WRITING
 TECHNOLOGY
 FAMILY
 RELIGION

25. Lesson Summary Egypt Mesopotamia GOVERNMENT Ruled by Pharaohs
 Egypt
Mesopotamia
 GOVERNMENT
 Ruled by Pharaohs
 Ruled by Kings
 ECONOMICS
Farmers
Collected Tribute/Taxes
Specialization   
WRITING
  Used ?
 Used ?
 TECHNOLOGY
 FAMILY
 RELIGION

26. Lesson Summary Egypt Mesopotamia GOVERNMENT Ruled by Pharaohs
 Egypt
Mesopotamia
 GOVERNMENT
 Ruled by Pharaohs
 Ruled by Kings
 ECONOMICS
Farmers
Collected Tribute/Taxes
Specialization   
WRITING
  Used Hieroglyphics
 Used Cuneiform
 TECHNOLOGY
 FAMILY
 RELIGION

27. Lesson Summary Egypt Mesopotamia GOVERNMENT Ruled by Pharaohs
 Egypt
Mesopotamia
 GOVERNMENT
 Ruled by Pharaohs
 Ruled by Kings
 ECONOMICS
 Agriculturalists
Collected Tribute/Taxes
Specialization
Agriculturalists   
WRITING
  Used Hieroglyphics
 Used Cuneiform
 TECHNOLOGY ??
 FAMILY
 RELIGION

28. Lesson Summary Egypt Mesopotamia GOVERNMENT Ruled by Pharaohs
 Egypt
Mesopotamia
 GOVERNMENT
 Ruled by Pharaohs
 Ruled by Kings
 ECONOMICS
Farmers
Collected Tribute/Taxes
Specialization   
WRITING
  Used Hieroglyphics
 Used Cuneiform
 TECHNOLOGY
 Irrigation
Metal plows/tools
 FAMILY
 RELIGION

29. Lesson Summary Egypt Mesopotamia GOVERNMENT Ruled by Pharaohs
 Egypt
Mesopotamia
 GOVERNMENT
 Ruled by Pharaohs
 Ruled by Kings
 ECONOMICS
Farmers
Collected Tribute/Taxes
Specialization   
WRITING
  Used Hieroglyphics
 Used Cuneiform
 TECHNOLOGY
 Irrigation
Metal plows/tools
 FAMILY
Men were responsible for working and trading. Women became responsible for “home life”
 RELIGION

30. Organized religion. Pharaoh was seen as a living god.
Lesson Summary
 Egypt
Mesopotamia
 GOVERNMENT
 Ruled by Pharaohs
 Ruled by Kings
 ECONOMICS
Farmers
Collected Tribute/Taxes
Specialization   
WRITING
  Used Hieroglyphics
 Used Cuneiform
 TECHNOLOGY
 Irrigation
Metal plows/tools
 FAMILY
Men were responsible for working and trading. Women became responsible for “home life”
 RELIGION
Organized religion. Pharaoh was seen as a living god.
Each city was devoted to a different god. Some Kings declared themselves gods.