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FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2017
Agenda
• Warm Up: Early Civilizations Map
• Reviewed Correct Answers to 5 Features of a
Civilization Organizer (back of notebook page 7)
• Shared Research Information from Mesopotamia
and Egypt Organizer with the class
• Homework: Turn in Biography Mini-Project
Tuesday (1/17) and Study for Vocab Quiz Tuesday
(1/17)
USE THE INFORMATION ON THE MAPS ON THIS
SLIDE AND ON THE NEXT 3 SLIDES TO
COMPLETE YOUR EARLY CIVILIZATIONS MAP
Use the information on the next two slides to check your
answers on you 5 Features of a Civilization Organizer.
• Complex Institutions
• Institution – a long lasting pattern of organization in a
community such as
• Government
• Religion
• Economy
• Technology
• New tools and techniques that solve problems and make like
easier
• Specialized Workers
• Specialized means someone has the skills to do a specific kind
of work
• Advanced Cities
• In order to be considered a city it must have
1. Large population
2. Must be a center of trade
• Record Keeping
• Must have a developed system of writing so the people can
• Record business
• Write a set of laws
• Priests can record rituals and dates
MESOPOTAMIA AND EGYPT
ORGANIZER
• Mesopotamia
LOCATION/GEOGRAPHY
• Fertile Crescent - arc of land between the
Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea in
Southwest Asia.
• Mesopotamia means “land between the
rivers.”
• * Tigris River and Euphrates River
• *Both rivers flooded once a year and left a
thick bed of silt (rich, new soil left behind
when rivers flooded)
RELIGION
• Sumerians were polytheistic (believed in
many gods)
• They built temples called ziggurats where
food, wine and animals were sacrificed to
the gods.
CULTURE/SOCIETY
• Women could hold (own) property
• Scholars believe that women could be
priests or scribes but they were not allowed
to attend schools
ECONOMICS
• Agriculture was the basis of the
Mesopotamian economy
• Produced a surplus of agricultural
products was traded for resources they did
not have timber, metal
POLITICS (GOVERNMENT)
• Sumerians were one of the first groups of
people to form a civilization.
• A city-state is a city, usually surrounded by
farmland, that developed their own
governments
• Sumer’s earliest governments were controlled
by temple priests
• After priests, hereditary rulers came to power.
A hereditary ruler passes power down to
family members. (Monarchy)
• A series of rulers from the same family is
called a dynasty.
• An empire is a political system that brings
together several peoples, nations, or
independent states under the control of one
ruler.
TECHNOLOGY
• Cultural diffusion is the process in which a
new idea or a product spreads from one
culture to another.
• They invented the wheel, the sail. and the
plow.
• They were the first to use bronze.
• The built irrigation systems.
INTELLECTUAL/ARTS
• The Epic of Gilgamesh was one of the
earliest works of literature in the world
OTHER IMPORTANT STUFF
• Mesopotamian city-states were overwhelmed
by nomadic invaders who established their
capital at Babylon.
• The Babylonian Empire reached its peak
during the reign of Hammurabi.
• Hammurabi recognized that a single,
uniform code of laws would help to unify
the diverse groups within his empire.
• collected existing rulings, judgments, and
laws into the Code of Hammurabi.
• Had his code engraved in stone, and copies
were placed all over his empire.