1. ANCIENT EGYPT

2. GOVERNMENT & LAWS
RULED BY PHARAOH or
DYNASTY

3. RULERS
HATSHEPSUT: FIRST WOMAN PHARAOH;

4. ECONOMY
AGRICULTURE
TRADED

5. RELIGION POLYTHEISTIC
SACRED ANIMALS: CAT, CROCODILE, BULL, RAM , JACKAL

6. RELIGION
BELIEF IN AFTER-LIFE
MUMMIFICATION

7. BEFORE WRAPPING A BODY, THE DESERT DRIED THOSE BURIED IN THE SAND...

9. CULTURE Society and Art/Lit
SOCIAL CLASSES
UPPER
LOWER
ART
BUILDINGS, INSIDE TOMBS
SCULPTURES:

10. CULTURE ARCHITECTURE SCIENCE PYRAMIDS SPHINX LUNAR CALENDAR
NUMBER SYSTEM

11. NUMBERS
100=
10= 1=

12. LASTING CONTRIBUTIONS
PYRAMIDS
365 DAY CALENDAR
BOOK OF HEALING
MUMMIFICATION
METAL WORKING & SCULPTURES

13. “THE LAND BETWEEN THE RIVERS”
MESOPOTAMIA
“THE LAND BETWEEN THE RIVERS”

14. SUMERIANS ca. 4000-2400 BCE GOVERNMENT & LAWS
CITY-STATES RULED BY A KING
RULERS
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GODS

15. SUMERIANS
ECONOMY
AGRICULTURE
TRADED WITH OTHERS IN MIDDLE EAST

16. SUMERIANS
RELIGION
POLYTHEISTIC

17. SUMERIANS
3 SOCIAL CLASSES
WRITING: CUNEIFORM ON CLAY TABLETS

19. SUMERIANS LASTING CONTRIBUTIONS
SEWERS
COMPASS
360 DEGREE CIRCLE
TELLING TIME
WHEEL
ARCH
BRICKS

20. BABYLONIANS 1700’S BCE GOVERNMENT & LAWS HAMMURABI’S CODE VERY HARSH
EYE FOR AN EYE

21. BABYLONIANS
ECONOMY
FARMING
TEXTILES

22. BABYLONIANS
RELIGION
POLYTHEISTIC

23. BABYLONIANS SOCIAL CLASSES NOBILITY MERCHANTS SLAVES
LASTING CONTRIBUTIONS
CODE OF HAMMURABI

24. HEBREWS GOVERNMENT 12 TRIBES UNITED UNDER SAUL
LATER SPLIT (ISRAEL & JUDAH)
MOSAIC LAW BASED ON AN EYE FOR AN EYE

25. HEBREWS
LEADERS
ABRAHAM
MOSES
SAUL

26. HEBREWS RELIGION: JUDAISM MONOTHEISTIC YAHWEH 10 COMMANDMENTS
OLD TESTAMENT
PROPHETS WERE MESSENGERS OF GOD

27. HEBREWS LASTING CONTRIBUTIONS MONOTHEISM
RELIGIONS: JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY
MOSAIC LAW
CULTURE