Transcript Early River Civilizations

8/23/10
Turn your map over and label the
following areas
Mesopotamia 1
India 2
China 3
Egypt 4
do you see the memory cue for
remembering the 4 early civilizations??
as a cover page for the
unit, draw a picture of a
river and label the page
“Early River
Civilizations”.
8/24/10
Turn your map over and label the
following areas
Bay of Bengal A
Mediterranean Sea B
Persian Gulf C
Nile River D
Red Sea E
advanced cities
specialized
workers
inventions
Civilizations
record
keeping
system of
government
Write the following vocabulary words
with 3 lines in between each word
1. pyramid
2. ziggurats
3. artisan
4. hieroglyphics
5. polytheism
6. monotheism
7. theocracy
8. Hammurabi’s Code
9. pharoah
10. delta
11. papyrus
12. Fertile Crescent
13. scribes
14. cuneiform
15. dynasty
**draw a memory cue for each word
8/25/10
List 3 of the 5
qualities that
make up a
civilization.
8/26/10
Turn your map over and label the
following areas
China
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Spain
Mesopotamia – land between the rivers
Advanced technology
wheel
plow
arch
math – 60 sec = 1 min, 60 min = 1 hour
Record Keeping - cuneiform
Government
Theocracy
1st set of written laws
Temples
*ziggurats
Hammurabi’s Code
*retaliation
*protect property
Specialized workers - scribes
8/27/10
List 3 contributions from
Mesopotamia. Write them
on your map north of
Mesopotamia, in the area of
modern-day Europe.
8/30/10
Define the following words:
theocracy
Polytheism
monotheism
ANCIENT EGYPT NOTES
1
Nile River
-longest
in the world
-rich, fertile soil
for farming
-Egypt is the gift of
the Nile
-water for human travel, trade,
war, moving stones for pyramids
*pyramids
*geometry
*astronomy
*calendar based
on Nile’s floods
-30 days/month
-12 months/year
-5 feast days
Technological Advances
2
ANCIENT EGYPT NOTES
*organized
into city-states
*Rulers were
called Pharaohs
*polytheistic
*pyramids were built
as tombs for the pharaohs
who Egyptians believed
had great power in the afterlife
3
complex institutions
8/31/10
Why did the
Egyptians spend so
much time and effort
on their pyramids?
*Papyrus
-reed-like
plant used to
make paper
*Hieroglyphics –
symbols to represent
words
Record Keeping
4
ANCIENT EGYPT NOTES
*cities
sprang up
along the Nile
1. Thebes
2. Memphis
3. Giza
5
Advanced Cities
1. traders
2. Farmers
3. Surgeons
4. Craftspeople
5. Stonemasons
6. mummification
Specialized Workers
6
9/1/10
List types of workers
that are associated
with the pyramids.
The Egypt packet is due Friday
at the beginning of class for a
stamp. Please plan your
schedule according. If you turn
it in early, you will get extra
points.
9/2/10
Why is there a
language program
today called the
Rosetta Stone?
9/3/10
List one benefit of
the Answan Dam or
the Suez Canal.
Mesopotamia vs Egypt quiz
Number your paper 1 – 10. Write M or E (or both) depending on
which civilization is being described.
1.
Built pyramids
2. Used papyrus
3.
Used cunneiform
4.
Polytheistic
5.
ziggurats
6.
Pharaohs
7.
Advanced cities
8.
Tigris R.
9.
Nile R.
10. Land between 2 rivers
09 – 08 - 10
•Answer question #4
on page 55. don’t
forget to use complete
sentences!
Ancient China
Huang River
2000 BC
Religion & Gov’t
-importance of
ancestors
-supreme god &
lesser gods
-priests interpreted
bones & shells to
answer questions
put to the gods
Rule by Dynasties
-series of rulers from
the same family
-mandate of Heaven
meant that gods approved
of the ruler
Record keeping
*characters to represent
a syllable
*unified the large country
*thousands of characters
to learn
Ancient China
Specialized
workers
-traders
-farmers
Contributions
*silk
*coined money
*iron weapons
*iron tools
Cities
*walled cities to protect higher classes
*peasants lived in huts outside of the walls
Huang River
2000 BC
underground army with horses & weapons
made to protect the emperor 250 BC