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Name: Mesopotamia Ancient Egypt GeoHistoGram Dates 5000 - 500 BCE 7000 - 330 BCE Geography ● Landscape ● Water Euphrates River Tigris River Floods Nile River Floods Fertile land Sahara Desert Mediterranean Sea Nile River Valley Marshy land Red Sea Cities Uruk Ur Sumer Babylon Akkid Assyria Memphis Thebes Upper Egypt Cairo Lower Egypt Alexandria Hermopolis Giza Leaders Hammurabi King Sargon King Menes Cleopatra King Tut Ramses II Queen Hatshepsut Nefertiti Laws or Moral Codes Hammurabi’s Code of Law Mesopotamia Government ● Priests - received the divine word from the gods ● Kings - received the divine word from the gods Pharaoh’s Laws and rules Ancient Egypt Pharaoh both political and religious leader Collected taxes Pharaoh’s had different government boundaries Old Kingdom Middle Kingdom New Kingdom Social Class Upper Class ● Priests ● Kings ● Government Officials Middle Class ● Craftsmen ● Artisans ● Merchants ● Farmers Lower Class ● Slaves 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pharaoh Vizier Priests & Nobles Government officials & Scribes Craftsmen/merchants Slaves, Laborers, peasants, farmers Mesopotamia Ancient Egypt Religion Polytheism - belief in more than 1 god Polytheism - belief in more than 1 god Writing System Cuneiform Hieroglyphics Literature Epic of Gilgamesh Hammurabi’s Code of Law Rosetta stone Book of the Dead Buildings Ziggurats Hanging Gardens of Babylon Pyramids Temples Sphinx Burial chambers Houses Accomplishments (Inventions) Wheel Plow Writing Sailboat Irrigation system Arts (jewelry) Pottery Lunar 12 month calendar Number system of 60 Arch Medicine Irrigation - built machines to move the water (levy-dykes) Makeup Math Solar calendar Pyramids Papyrus paper Mummification Toothpaste Levers Hieroglyphics Daily Life ● Music festivals ● Mud brick houses ● Clothes made from sheepskin or wool ● Women had long hair with braids and men had long hair and beards ● ● ● ● Women could have high ranking jobs Makeup worn by both men and women Wore linen clothes Men wore kilts and women wore a straight dress ● Slaves wore clothes with patterns Fun Facts ● Learned how to make glass ● Pottery and sculptures were often painted ● People signed items with a ● People slept on top of the roof in the summer because it was too hot in the mud brick house ● Average peasant girl married at the age of seal made from stone carvings ● At the top of a ziggurat is a shrine to a god 12 ● People bathed daily in the Nile River ● Bread they ate was so rough it made their teeth wear away