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PLANNER
WARM-UP
CW: Chapter 10 section 1
Notes
 CW: Ancient Egyptian
Pyramids
 Reminder:
States Map Test Friday, Aug:
14th
Chapter 10 section 1 quiz
Monday, Aug. 17th
Chapter 10 Test Wednesday
Aug. 19th
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Look up Ch. 10 Sect. 1
vocab.
 Write a sentence using
each word.
** You DO NOT have to write
the definition of each
word, just use it in a
sentence.
Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt
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Egypt and Mesopotamia – earliest known
civilizations
 Egypt in North Africa
 Mesopotamia in Southwest Asia
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Located between the Tigris and Euphrates
Rivers
Started:
 Using a 12-month calendar
 Predicting the floods
 Used the plow
 Irrigation system
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Sumer – location of the earliest known citystate
Invented:
 The wheel
 The sailboat
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Polytheism – worship of many gods or
goddesses
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Ziggurat – large tower that led to a temple
where the priests lived
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Theocracy – government controlled by
religious leaders (right to rule from the gods)
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First to keep lists and written records
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Cuneiform – wedge like symbols in clay tablets
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Schools called “tablet houses”
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Only the wealthy could go to school
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Wrote 1st known story – “Epic of Gilgamesh”
(similar to Noah’s Ark)
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2300 B.C. – Akkad conquered Sumer and
created the first empire
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Empire – groups of states under one ruler
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Babylon eventually conquered Akkad
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Created number system based on 60
▪ An hour
▪ Minute
▪ Circle
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Hammurabi’s Code – an eye for an eye and a
tooth for a tooth
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“Gift of the Nile”
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King Narmer united
Upper and Lower
Eqypt in 3100 B.C.
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An Egyptian ruler is called a pharaoh.
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They believed in theocracy (religion). What
does that mean?
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They believed the pharaoh was a GOD.
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Considered the center of Egyptian life.
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Theocracy – gods based on nature
 Re – sun god
 Hapi- river god
 Horus – sky god
 Osirus – harvest and eternal life god
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Said that the soul could not exist without the
body
After death, Egyptians were:
 Embalmed
 Organs removed
 Slowly dry the body
 Wrapped in long strips of ribbon
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Massive tombs for the bodies of pharaohs
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Statues also used to remember the great
pharaohs (Sphinx)
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Hieroglyphics
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Put writing on monuments of papyrus (plant
from the Nile)
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First to use splints, bandages, compresses,
stitching wounds, and setting bones.
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Conquered by Greece and Rome
Using the diagram on page 317, create a
pyramid.
 On the pyramid use pictures and only
pictures to describe how you would want to
be remembered.
*Remember: it will be easier to draw on your
pyramids before you glue them together.
*use construction paper and colors; we will
hang these from the ceiling after you are
finished!!
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