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Power concedes nothing without a demand.
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Date:
Mr. Carey/Mr. Clarke
Do Now: CRS Passage
Homework Quiz
Directions: Respond to the question below in your world history notebook. Be ready to discuss the question.
1. According to the text, why did Egyptians practice Mummification?
2. According to the text, how many pyramids are still around in modern Egypt?
Poem Analysis
Directions: Respond to the question below in your world history notebook. Be ready to discuss the question.
1. A famous Greek Historian, Herodotus, once wrote “Egypt is the gift of the nile.” Based on the poem below, what
did he mean by this quotation and was he right?
Egypt Review
Directions: Using your homework article, respond to the questions below
1.
Based on the text, what do the great Pyramids of Egypt reveal about Egyptian social, political and cultural life?
Use evidence from the text to support your answer.
2. Based on the text, how would you characterize the process of mummificaiton? Use at least three pieces of
evidence from the text.
The social elements of a society/civilization often concern the ways
in which the people of that society/civilization interact with each
other. Do social classes exist within the society/civilization in
Social
question? What are the expectations for family units? What are the
expectations for males and females? How do the people of different
races or ethnicities within the society/civilization in question relate?
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
Political
Cultural
Economic
The political elements of a society/civilization often concern the
groups/individuals that control a society/civilization, as well as how
that society/civilization is built to run. What kind of government
exists within the society/civilization in question? Is the
society/civilization in question stable, or is it prone to revolts and
revolutions? How does the society/civilization in question approach
outside societies/civilizations around it?
The cultural elements of a society/civilization often revolve around
the belief/value systems, religions, philosophies, and ways of
thinking at work within that society/civilization? How do the people
within the society/civilization in question look at the world? What
things (art, poems/writing, technology, buildings) do the people
within the society/civilization in question create to express
themselves or solve problems?
The economic elements of a society/civilization often concern the
systems of trade/exchange at work within that society/civilization.
How does a society/civilization in question get its resources or
accumulate wealth? How does this society/civilization then trade
these resources for other resources, or use the wealth it gains?
Directions: Carefully read and respond to the following prompt in a complete, college-ready fashion.
1. Based on the article below, do you think the Egyptian understanding of the after-life is fair and just (just means
when something is right/fair)? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.
A dead noble stands trembling in the Hall of Truth. Behind the noble, Horus, the half-falcon, half-man ruler of
Earth, unleashes a piercing stare at the quivering man. Thoth, the sharp-beaked, ibis-headed deity of scribes,
sharpens his quill — poised to record a verdict of divine judgment.
Seated before the noble on a golden throne is Osiris, the king of the dead. Upon his head rests a glittering crown
with a gorgeous white feather plume on either side. Behind Osiris stands Isis, the revered goddess of nature,
who is responsible for bringing the dead earth back to life each year. She holds an ankh, a cross with a loop
above the bar. An ankh guarantees that a dead person will live forever.
The noble wonders if he will live forever. Or will he be fed to the hideous crocodilelike god called the Eater of the
Dead and forever cease to exist. (How can the noble wonder about all this if he's already dead? The noble is
actually in limbo, a place where the souls of dead people go while being judged.)
Osiris begins the process of judging the noble's life. On one side of a scale, Osiris places the heart of the noble,
which bares the secrets of the soul. Had the soul lied, cheated, or lived an evil life? The soul defends itself before
a variety of interrogating gods.
The noble thinks about his second self, called the ka. The ka lives within every human being. When the physical
body expires, the ka goes on to enjoy eternal life, where it can hunt, fish, live with its family, be entertained, and
eat favorite foods.
Now Osiris holds up the sacred feather, the emblem of truth, and places it on the other side of the scale. If the
scales balance, eternal life awaits. If not, the Eater of the Dead has his favorite food for lunch: noble.