1. The Ancient
Middle East 8

2. 1. Mesopotamia:
"Land Between
the Two Rivers"

3. Indo-European Migrations: 4m-2m BCE
The Middle East: “The Crossroads of Three Continents”

4. The Ancient Fertile Crescent Area
The Middle East: “The Cradle of Civilization”

5. Sumerians

6. Sumerian Religion - Polytheistic
Enki
Innana
Anthropomorphic Gods

7. Cuneiform: “Wedge-Shaped” Writing

8. Deciphering Cuneiform

9. Sumerian Scribes
“Tablet House”

10. Ziggurat at Ur
Temple
“Mountain of the Gods”

11. Sophisticated Metallurgy Skills at Ur

12. Sargon of Akkad: The World’s First Empire [Akkadians]

13. The Babylonian Empires

14. Hammurabi’s [r. 1792-1750 B. C. E.] Code

15. Hammurabi, the Judge

16. Babylonian Math

17. Babylonian Numbers

18. Checking for Understanding
Mesopotamia is one of the few civilizations that started from “scratch”
True
False

19. Checking for Understanding
The civilization in Mesopotamia progressed primarily from the accomplishments of the
Akkadians
Sumerians
Hammurabi
Greeks

20. The Ancient
Middle East

21. A View of Egypt by Satellite

22. The Fertile Nile Valley

23. The Annual Flooding of the Nile

24. Nile Irrigation-the Shaduf

25. Ancient Egyptian Housing
Middle Class Homes
Peasant Homes

26. Scenes of Ancient Egyptian Daily Life

27. Making Ancient Egyptian Beer

28. Making Ancient Egyptian Wine

29. An Egyptian Woman’s “Must-Haves”
Mirror
Perfume
Wigs

30. Egyptian Social Hierarchy

31. Some Famous Egyptian Pharaohs
Tutankhamon B. C. E.
Thutmose III B. C. E.
Ramses II B. C. E.

32. Egyptian Nobility

33. Egyptian Priestly Class

34. Egyptian Scribe

35. Papyrus  Paper
Hieratic Scroll Piece
Papyrus Plant

36. Egyptian Math & Draftsmenship1 10
100
1000
10,000
100,000
1,000,000
What number is this?

37. Hieroglyphics “Alphabet” 24 “letters” + 700 phonetic symbols

38. Giza Pyramid Complex

39. Checking for Understanding
1) The Neolithic Revolution is the term given to the development of agricultural societies
True
False

40. Checking For Understanding
Which of the following is used to classify a “civilization”?
Formal states
Writing
Cities
Monuments
Trade
Political entities
All of the above