PLANNER

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

WARM-UP

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

Egypt and Mesopotamia – earliest known civilizations Egypt in North Africa Mesopotamia in Southwest Asia

Located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

Started: Using a 12-month calendar Predicting the floods Used the plow Irrigation system

Sumer – location of the earliest known city-state

Invented: The wheel The sailboat

Polytheism – worship of many gods or goddesses

Ziggurat – large tower that led to a temple where the priests lived

Theocracy – government controlled by religious leaders (right to rule from the gods)

First to keep lists and written records

Cuneiform – wedge like symbols in clay tablets

Schools called “tablet houses”

Only the wealthy could go to school

Wrote 1st known story – “Epic of Gilgamesh” (similar to Noah’s Ark)

2300 B.C. – Akkad conquered Sumer and created the first empire

Empire – groups of states under one ruler

Babylon eventually conquered Akkad

Created number system based on 60 ▪ An hour▪ Minute ▪ Circle

Hammurabi’s Code – an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth

“Gift of the Nile”

King Narmer united Upper and Lower Eqypt in 3100 B.C.

An Egyptian ruler is called a pharaoh.

They believed in theocracy (religion). What does that mean?

They believed the pharaoh was a GOD.

Considered the center of Egyptian life.

Theocracy – gods based on nature Re – sun god Hapi- river god Horus – sky god Osirus – harvest and eternal life god

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

Massive tombs for the bodies of pharaohs

Statues also used to remember the great pharaohs (Sphinx)

Hieroglyphics

Put writing on monuments of papyrus (plant from the Nile)

First to use splints, bandages, compresses, stitching wounds, and setting bones.

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!!