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Egypt-Mesopotamia
Civilization
Indicators of civilization
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River Valley Civilizations
The earliest societies developed in
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Egypt
The Nile
It is the world’s longest river
Two major sources
The current flows
The wind blows
The valley is very fertile farmland due to
With the floods came
Nile flooded
In a normal year, the fields along the Nile produced
Nilometer
Shadoof
Egyptian Creation Myth
Egyptian Gods:
Ra:
Osiris:
Isis:
Seth:
Horus:
Thoth:
Egyptian Isolation
Egypt’s geography helped to keep it
Deserts
Cataracts
Nubia
raw materials
The most vulnerable part of Egypt was
Unification of Egypt
3100 B.C.
Narmer or Menes
Double Crown
White Crown
Red Crown
Memphis
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Egyptian Dynasties
Pharaoh
The pharaoh was forbidden to marry outside
Egyptian history is divided into
The first dynasties
Ka
The body
Its name
The ka had to be provided with
mummification,
Mummification
Soon after death
Natron
The body was left to dry out for
canopic jars
funerary mask
sarcophagus
The wealthy elite
Field of Reeds
Osiris presided over
Book of the Dead
There were forty-two
The man had to prove that
At the end of the trial
Egyptian Government
The survival of the “divine king” rested on
Heading the bureaucracy
Taxes
The Building of the Pyramids
Around 2650 B.C.
Djoser
Imhotep
stepped pyramid
At the beginning of the Old Kingdom
Snefru
The Bent Pyramid:
The Red Pyramid:
Great Pyramid of Khufu
The stones of the three pyramids
Each side of the Great Pyramid of Khufu is
The site was important because
The most probable building method was
All burial grounds
Great Sphinx
The last 100 years of the Old Kingdom were
Reasons for the fall of the Old Kingdom
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Civil war
The Middle Kingdom 2050 B.C. – 1800 B.C.
After a long struggle, the rulers of Thebes
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The new dynasty
1795 B.C. The Hyksos
The Hyksos brought technology like
The Hyksos were driven out of Egypt in
Ahmose I
New Kingdom
Imperial Egypt
The rulers of the New Kingdom became
Hatshepsut
She wore
1352 B.C
Akhenaten
polytheism to monotheism
The new religion
When Akhenaten died, Tutankhamun,
King Tut’s tomb was discovered
The Late Period
The final decline of Egypt’s power
New invaders:
Post Dynastic Periods
Alexander The Great
Ptolemaic Period lasted from
Alexandria
Cleopatra VII.
Rome
Life in Ancient Egypt
At the height of its glory,
Egypt’s Social Pyramid
Status of Women
Women had
Pharaohs always boasted
Egyptian Writing
The Egyptians had three types of writing styles:
Egyptian writing did not employ an
Hieroglyphics
Hieroglyphics is a Greek word meaning
Hieratic and Demotic are
The Rosetta Stone
1822
Jean Francois Champolion
This stone has three
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a Greek word meaning
The two rivers are
The lack of natural barriers
Around 3000 B.C.,
Sumerian civilization
“hydraulic society”
Sumerian Religion
Sumerian religion was
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Enlil
The gods were
Religious activities centered around
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Roles of Men and Women
Men:
Women:
Writing on Clay
Cuneiform:
They mostly record
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh is
The story may have been originally based
Sumerian Inventions
Some of the important inventions
Empires of Mesopotamia
The Akkadians
Sargon I
The Amorites, also known as
Hammurabi
Religion
astrology
The Hittites
They were the first people to use
The Assyrians
They would routinely
Sennacherib
Nineveh had
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Egypt-Mesopotamia Terms
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