PDF-Egypt Lesson Plan 1: Hieroglyphs and Co

12 Lesson Objectives Students will 1 Make comparisons between modern day text messaging techniques and the use of hieroglyphs as forms of communication 2 Analyze how hieroglyphs were used. Like a giant snake, the Nile River slithers through some of the driest desert land on earth to create a narrow green valley. . The ancient Greeks called this land Egypt. For more than five thousand years, famous and often mysterious civilizations thrived along the banks of the Nile. About . Cuneiform & Hieroglyphics. Allows us to record history, . _______ . and religious texts and to create literature.. Essential to the spread of . ________________ . and the advancement of ideas. Writing. SWBAT discover and analyze the greatest mysteries of the Mayan civilization. Maya Civilization. The Mayan were located in the “hook” of . Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras,. El Salvador, Belize, and parts of Nicaragua. . Hieroglyphs. Meaning=Divine speech or god’s words. Used by priests for religious writing-written on papyrus or wood. Hieroglyphs is an . abjad. , a writing system where each symbol stands for a consonant-the reader must think of the correct vowel. What is a Hieroglyph Anyway?. Hieroglyphs are what the ancient egyptians used to write with.. They were pictures that meant words or sometimes they were two words combined.. How The Alphabet Works. Hieroglyphs are signs, they are usually divide into 4 categories.. 3,000BC just about the same time as the Mesopotamians!. What allowed Egyptians to begin trading among themselves and with others?. The introduction of the . shadoof. Farming the Nile Delta. Minerals from the red land. Duane . Dieunne. Justin Castro. Alex Palma. Ronald Worley Jr.. Sean Holman. By Duane . Dieudonne. Egypt. Government. . Ancient Egypt Government. In ancient Egypt, the head of government was Pharaoh.. writing. ?. In 391 AD .  the Byzantine Emperor . Theodosius close all pagan temple throughout the empire. This action construct a four thousand years old traditions. The message of the egyptians language was lost for 1500. It was not until the discovery of rossette stone and the work of the jean-francois . By. Erin Smith, . Robert . Hardmond. and . Chad Wynne. Part of the Ottoman empire until 1914. British had been in charge since 1882. The War . Protect Suez. Staging point for attack on Johnny Turk. Provide Labor and cotton. TERMS . Pharaoh. – the title given to the rulers in ancient Egypt.. Nomes. – the provinces into which ancient Egypt was divided.. Nomarch. – the official who governed a nome (province) in ancient Egypt.. The Great Pyramid. The Pyramids were considered "Houses of Eternity“.. Tallest human-made structure until the Eiffel Tower in the 1800's. Took approximately 23 years to build. All pyramids had to have a North-facing entrance, to align with the North Star.. (2700 BCE to 2200 BCE). People saw their kings as gods. Called a . theocracy. = same person is the political AND religious leader. King gave many responsibilities to a . bureaucracy . = groups of government officials. 6. th. Grade Social Studies. Chapter 4 Lesson 4. The Big Picture. Farmers . planted. and . harvested. crops between the yearly Nile floods.. Most people worked on huge farms owned by . government leaders. . Agricultural Value Chain Development: . . An economywide approach applied to Egypt. Clemens Breisinger, Mariam Raouf, James Thurlow and Manfred Wiebelt. IFPRI. ICRAC Conference. 5/12/2019. Cairo, Egypt.