1. Introduction to Impacts of Ancient Civilizations
Mesopotamia
India
China
Egypt

2. What does “impact” mean ?
Influence or effect
Lasting achievement
Foundation of knowledge we use TODAY
Articles/ideas that have “stood the test of time”
Contribution
Legacy

3. Lasting Civilizations

4. GEOGRAPHY of Mesopotamia
called Fertile Crescent
present day Iran & Iraq
between Tigris & Euphrates

5. Impacts of Mesopotamia
Hammurabi’s Laws
Eye for an Eye
Laws applied to everyone
Cuneiform
Recorded on clay tablets
Symbol writing
Scribes combined symbols (wedges and lines)

6. Impacts of Mesopotamia
Irrigation
Built ditches for watering crops
Plow
Pulled by an ox
Wheel
Calendar
Based on the moon and stars
Levee
Walls built to prevent flooding

7. Geography of Egypt Along the Nile River Corner of northeast Africa
Upper and Lower Egypt
West and East protected by desert
Cataracts to Mediterranean Sea

8. Impacts of Egypt Science Architecture Math
Performed surgery
Used natural remedies
Architecture
Pyramids
Math
Used addition, multiplication, subtraction and division
Fractions
Geometry
Hieroglyphics – picture-like symbol writing on papyrus
translated by the Rosette Stone in 1799

9. Impacts of Egypt Science Math Surgery Addition Natural remedies
Architecture
Pyramids
Math
Addition
Multiplication
Subtraction
Division
Fractions
Geometry
Hieroglyphics – picture symbols written on papyrus
translated by the Rosette Stone in 1799

10. Achievements Nile River and Delta Irrigation Shadouf Unified Egypt
Created trade and wealth
Irrigation
Flood control
Shadouf
Bucket/weight system to lift water from Nile

11. Geography of Ancient India
Subcontinent
Peninsula
Himalayas Divide
South Western Asia
2 Great Rivers
Ganges
Indus

12. Impacts of Ancient India
Religions
Hinduism Buddhism
Martial Arts
Arabic Numerals
Mathematics
- Algebra - Decimals - Negatives
and ZERO

13. Geography of Ancient China
Southeast Asia
3 Rivers
Yangtze
Huang He Xi

14. Impacts of Ancient China
Silk Road
4000 Miles of trade routes between China / Europe
Silk
Developed by the Chinese; carried over Silk Road
Philosophy
Confucius taught:
respect for others, especially elders
family was key

15. Impacts of Ancient China
Technology
Paper (wood)
Iron plow
Boat Rudder (boat steer)
Compass
Wheel barrow
Seismograph – measured earthquakes
Arts
Porcelain
Silk Weaving
Jade Carving
Block Printing
Temples