MESOPOTAMIA EGYPT Mesopotamia and Egypt are together known as the Fertile Crescent Just like Mesopotamia Egypt is one of the oldest civilizations in the world Although Egypt arose after Mesopotamia what characteristics do you think they shared ID: 785776
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The First Civilizations in the World
MESOPOTAMIA
EGYPT
Slide2Mesopotamia and Egypt are together known as the Fertile Crescent
Slide3Just like Mesopotamia, Egypt is one of the oldest civilizations in the world. Although Egypt arose after Mesopotamia, what characteristics do you think they shared?
Slide4Ancient Egypt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdtgX9ORiW4
Slide5EGYPTIAN HISTORY
Begins around 3,000 BCEOfficially ends in 30 B.C.E when Cleopatra, the last queen of independent Egypt dies, and Egypt is annexed by the Roman Empire
2340 BCE Sargon starts an empire in Mesopotamia
4000 BCE Sumerian city states develop
Egypt becomes part of Roman Empire
Slide6GEOGRAPHY OF EGYPT
Surrounded by the Red Sea on its eastThe Mediterranean Sea on its northLocated along the Nile River within the Sahara DesertRemember the Nile River begins in central Africa and flows north . Why?
Geography as Positive
Geography
as
Negative
Slide7ECONOMIC
Used the Nile to tradeGrew flax, wheat, barley, cottonTraded cotton linenLots of natural resources like precious metalsWho would the Ancient Egyptians have traded with?
Slide8EGYPTIAN SOCIAL HIERARCHY
Why this order?
Slide9WRITING SYSTEM:
HieroglyphicsEgyptian form of writing based on pictures (pictographs)Some stood for sounds, others for wordsWritten on papyrus: -made from reeds (plant along the Nile) -equivalent of paper
How might hieroglyphics compare to cuneiform?
Slide10GOVERNMENT
Pharaoh (King)Egyptians believed the pharaoh was the son of Re, the sun godCarried out ritualsPart of a theocracy (government led by a religious figure)
Slide11Hatshepsut
Came to power c. 1473 BCEWas supposed to help her nephew rule but just made herself pharaohGirl Power!Made Egypt rich through trade along the Red SeaUsed the wealth to build a great tombhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9jmZiy_T-c
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khenaten1370 BCEAmenhotep wanted to stop the priests from getting too powerful so he started his own religionBased it on worship of one god “Aten”, a manifestation of the sun god RaThe first monotheistic religion?Why didn’t it stick?
Slide13Tutankhamen (King Tut)
Ruled from c. 1330 BCERestored old religion (polytheism instead of Akhenaten’s religion)Famous for his tomb with tons of treasure and mummieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8keAEanI34
http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/ancient-egypt/videos/coroners-report-king-tut?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=false
Slide14RELIGION
Religion: Polytheistic (belief in many gods)God of natural thingsGods act like humans but are immortalAfterlife is like a paradise http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/ancient-egypt/videos/journey-to-the-afterlife?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=false
Mummies were preserved bodies so a person could be whole in the after life
http://
www.history.com/news/egyptian-princess-needed-bypass-surgery-mummy-study-shows
http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/ancient-egypt/videos/how-to-make-a-mummy?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=false
Slide15THE PYRAMIDS
Pyramids were royal tombs where pharaohs would live in the afterlifehttp://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/ancient-egypt/videos/mankind-the-story-of-all-of-us-building-the-pyramids?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=falseWhat do the pyramids tell us about the Egyptian people? What skills/organization did the Egyptians have to have?
The largest Egyptian pyramid:http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/ancient-egypt/videos/deconstructing-history-the-great-pyramid?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=false