1. 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?

2. Reminders/Housekeeping
When you walk into this classroom on Tuesday you need to be in compliance with ONE of the following:
1. have $0.50 in your hand,
2. have a blue folder and a spiral of your choice in your hand or
3. have a blue folder and a spiral of your choice in the appropriate crate
If you do not, I will take 5 points from the first test grade for every day that you do not have your needed supplies!
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There is NO SCHOOL on Monday! 

3. 7 Characteristics of Civilization1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

4. Indus River Valley Indus River Plain Social Structure Technology
What two rivers?
What disadvantage?
Social Structure
Caste system
Technology
Inventions?

5. Egypt!

6. 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

7. Egypt

8. 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…

9. Egypt

10. 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

11. 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

12. Egypt

13. Hieroglyphic Typewriter
Egypt
Hieroglyphic Typewriter

14. 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)

15. Egypt

16. Egypt
Inside the Pyramids

17. 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