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Introduction
What is civilization?
River Nile
Life in Egypt
Treasures of Egypt
The end of the Egyptian civilization
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What is civilization?
What is civilization?
Do we live in a civilized society?
Civilization is about the way of life in towns.
People become civilized when they:
Do we ……
• know how to read and write?
• could read and write
• live in towns or cities
• know how to make metal tools
• trade with other people
• has a government and laws
Yes
Do we live in a civilized society?
Do we live in a civilized society?
Do we ……
Do we ……
• live in towns or cities?
• know how to make metal tools?
Yes
Yes
Do we live in a civilized society?
Do we live in a civilized society?
Do we ……
Do we ……
• trade with other people?
• have a government and laws?
Yes
Early civilization
Where did the early civilization begin?
Civilization first began in:
• Mesopotamia in West Asia
• the Nile Valley in Egypt
• the Indus Valley in India
• the Huanghe Valley in China
Yes
Early civilization
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What were the common features of the people living in
the four centres of early civilization?
What were the common features of the people living in
the four centres of early civilization?
They invented writings.
Cuneiform writing of the Sumerians
They invented writings.
What were the common features of the people living in
the four centres of early civilization?
Early Chinese writing on an animal bones
What were the common features of the people living in
the four centres of early civilization?
They used metals.
Tutankhamun’s golden mask
They used metals.
A bronze pot of ancient China
What were the common features of the people living in
the four centres of early civilization?
What were the common features of the people living in
the four centres of early civilization?
They built large towns.
The city of Babylon under
Nebuchadnezzar II
They built large towns.
Remains of the city of Mohenjo-Daro
What were the common features of the people living in
the four centres of early civilization?
What were the common features of the people living in
the four centres of early civilization?
They traded with
other people.
Sumerian traders sailing in their reed boats
They traded with
other people.
Egyptian traders sailing to distant countries in large
wooden ships
What were the common features of the people living in
the four centres of early civilization?
What were the common features of the people living in
the four centres of early civilization?
They developed religion.
They formed government.
Hammurabi’s pillar of laws
A bronze statue of an Indian god
What is the climate of Egypt like?
Is it appropriate to call Egypt ‘the Nile’s gift’?
River Nile
Egypt is hot and dry.
Yes. It is because the
river provides the
Egyptians water.
Why was the River Nile important to the Egyptians?
1. Summer - flooding
2. Autumn - planting
Life in Egypt
4. Spring - harvesting
3. Winter - watering
Government
Farming
Do you know
who he was?
He was the pharaoh
(Egyptian king).
The Egyptians were
good farmers.
He was the most
powerful man in Egypt.
Shaduf – invented by ancient Egyptians