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MESOPOTAMIA
The Cradle of Civilization
Mr. Snyder
Mesopotamia*
• Means: “Between the Rivers”
• Land between the Euphrates and Tigris
Rivers
The Beginning
• This is the land where humans may have
been first on Earth
Christianity started here.
As did Judaism and Islam
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BC and AD*
• BC and AD is how we count years
• BC: Before Jesus Christ
• AD: Anno Domini: In the Year of our
Lord Jesus Christ
The Laws of Hammurabi*
• Ruler of the Babylonian's – An ancient
Empire in Iraq- around 1800 BC
• He passed the first laws to protect his
people in recorded history
– Hammurabi’s Laws sheet
Middle East Map
• In 2 minutes fill out as much as the map
as possible
Maps of War*
• http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/imperia
l-history.html
• The middle East has seen a lot of
empires
The Egyptians*
• 3150 – 30 BC (which is closer to AD?)
• Had Pharaoh's as Kings/Queens
• A rich nation thanks to conquest and the
Nile River
• Built great stone works like tombs and
Pyramids
• http://www.history.com/topics/ancientegypt/videos#coroners-report-king-tut
Hieroglyphics*
The Rosetta Stone
• This stone allowed us to match Greek
words with the
hieroglyphics. Before
this we never knew how
to read them.
It was found in 1799
The Pyramids*
• There are 138 pyramids
• The most famous are in Giza, outside
Cairo – Egypt’s capital
• Khufu is the largest and the only of the 7
wonders of the world still in existence
Mummies*
• Egyptian's believed you had to mummify
the body to help it into the after life
• So how did they do it?
• http://www.history.com/videos/how-tomake-a-mummy#how-to-make-amummy
Egyptian Life
Entertainment
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Wrestle
Play board Games
Race Chariots
Tell stories
Dance/Sing
Religion
They were polytheistic,
meaning they believed
in many Gods. Here
are a couple:
Ra: God of the Sun
Isis: Mother Goddess
Pharaoh: Human God
Famous Pharaohs
• Pharaoh's were living
Gods and were in
charge
• They led battles,
made heirs(babies to
be king)
• Khafra: Built the
great Pyramid and
the Sphinx
• Sphinx means:
“Terrifying one”
Famous Pharaohs*
• Ramasses II: Lived
until 92, famous for
building/expansion
• Possibly the Pharaoh
in the Exodus
• Tutankhamen: Pharaoh
at age 9 – died at 18.
famous for his tomb
• Cleopatra: The last
Pharaoh, a Queen, fought
with her brother over the
crown then was beaten
by the Romans
Word Wall*
• Pharaoh: King/God
of Egypt
• Polytheistic:
Worships many Gods
• Sphinx: Terrifying
one
• Ra: God of the Sun
• Isis: Mother God
• Heir: Person that
inherits something
after a death
• Exodus: Fleeing
oppression in mass
numbers
Egyptian Life
• The Nile River
flooded each year
providing farming
land
• The “Vizier” helped
the Pharaoh control
the people
• The “Temples” is
where people
worship and they
controlled the
taxes/money of the
government.
• They used Honey to
stop infection, knew
todays basic math
skills
Valley of the Kings
• Where many of the
Pharaohs, family, and
royalty is buried
• We still do not know
how many tombs are
there
The Boy King*
• Pharaoh
Tutankhamen’s story
• Please read silently
Map Making
• Draw from memory a map of the middle
East and label the countries all bodies of
water we looked at yesterday
The 7 Wonders*
• http://www.unmuseu
m.org/wonders.htm
• 1. Statue of Zeus at
Olympia
• 2. Hanging gardens
of Babylon
• 3. Lighthouse of
Alexandria
• 4. Temple of Artemis
• 5. The Great Pyramid
• 6. Mausoleum at
Halicarnassus
• 7. The Colossus of
Rhodes