Week of September 5-9

Monday- no school labor day

Tuesday- notes

Phoenicians Economy

  • greatest seafaring people
  • Dominated trade in the Mediterranean for a thousand years
  • Phoenicians is Greek for People of the Sea
  • Great sea trading empire
  • Famous for 
    • alphabet
    • cedar ships
    • purple cloth
    • trade
    • art
    • religion
  • Determined their direction by looking at the sun and stars.

Technology Advances

  • shipbuilding
  • Navigation
  • Writing
  • See through glass
  • Mathematics
  • Dyes

Political Advancements

  • Kingship
  • Alliances- King Israelite
  • Social Structure
  • Republic government- Tyre

Social

Religion

  • Polytheistic

Education

  • Educated by elders in the community

Art

  • Influences by Egyptian and Mesopotamian art

Entertainment

  • Music and Hymns
  • Festivals celebrating their Gods

Gender Roles

  • Women were subjected to lower ranking jobs than men

Babalon

  • Dynasty
    • Absolute Monarchy
    • Hammurabi's Babylonian Empire 18th Bablon to Babylonia
    • Hammurabi's code (282)
      • eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth
      • what you do to someone that is what will happen to you
    • Assyrian conquest 12th
    • Naboplassar 625 BC (Nebucbadnezzar II)
    • 539 BC Persia
  • Economy
    • Agriculture
    • Barter/Trade system
    • Currency
    • Big Economy= 200,000 people

Social

  • Religon
    • strong beliefs in many immortal gods
    • Each individual would have their very own god to pray to
  • Gender roles
    • men had more rights over women
    • Women had some rights
  • Entertainment
    • hunted
    • boxed and wrestled
    • board games
  • Art
    • some in architecture
  • Education
    • scribal type learning
    • Boys went to school
    • Some girls went

Hanging Garden

  • Float in the sky
  • Was made by king nebuchandnezzar II
  • 650 BC
  • 8200 gallons 75 feet high

Geography

  • Largest city in the world from 1770-1670 and first 200,000 population

Harappans

  • 3300-1300 BC
  • James Lewis British army deserter posed as an American engineer noticed mounded ruins at a small town in Punjab called Harappa. Since Harappa was the first city founded that how the civilization got named.
  • Large village in Pakistan
  • Begun around 2900 or 2500 BC

Natural Barriers

  • some of the natural barriers around Indus Valley include the following
  • Hinda Kush- Great Mountains in Central Asia
  • Himalayan
  • These are meant to protect against invasion and stop flooding

Mountains or Dessert Like

  • both because it is around the Himalyans
  • Lots of houses are mud bricks that are in a kiln to dry to make them harder and harder to destroy

Great Bath

  • Public bathtub
  • Indus Valley Civilization at Mohenjo daro in Pakistan

Religion

  • Polytheists
  • Worshiped goddess of fertility
  • Haven't found a temple yet
  • Buried objects with the dead
  • Many things about beingclean
  • Nature worship

Social Class

  • Ruling class
  • Middles class merchants, craftsmen
  • Lowest class, mainly laborers that lived in huts in villages

Entertainments

  • Enjoyed dancing
  • Large heated pool, public pool with private rooms

Art and Language

  • Bronze and beads and ornaments were found
  • Very literate peoples, Dravidian language only some as been figured out
  • Many pictograms and animal designs

Gender Roles and Technological Advances

  • Women were key to survival of the harappans represented fertility
  • Duties for women were to bare children and housekeeper
  • Men were priests, warriors and tribal leaders and inheirit land
  • Seals were used for currency 
  • Created beads from bone and other material
  • Created weights for trade and tax

Political

  • Priest ran everything
  • They had three laws 
  • Defined the classes
  • Kept order
  • Religon is a huge roll

Samsara

  • Cycle of birth, death and rebirth
  • influenced by one's action
  • Want to escape to achieve "ultimate bliss"

Wars

  • No real evidence 
  • Art didn't represent war
  • Peaceful civilization

Lost Power

  • 3300-1300 BC
  • Main Reason. River Drying

Economy

  • Urban trading
  • Trade with India Afghanistan and Persia for gold, silver, copper and turquoise
  • Rich people used instruments studded with jewels
  • Ate a lot of wheat rice and vegetables
  • Raised cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats and camels

Sumerians

Geography

  • southwest of Asia which is part of Mesopatmia

Political

  • Individual Complex City States
  • First "Burdens"
  • First Scribes
  • Kings
  • City states
  • Laws
    • The Code of -Ur-Nammu
    • Not the father
    • Sargon the Great/Sumer
    • 3000 to 2215 BC
  • Great Leaders
    • Jusher, Kish
    • Enmerkar, Uruk
    • Mesh-Ane-Pada, Ur
    • Enhengal, Legash
  • Loosing Power
    • Sargon the Great
    • 2334- 2279 BC
    • Unison of Sumer
    • Soil Salinity
  • Social 
    • Religon
    • Polythesis, believed in several gods and goddesses, Inanna, Queen of heaven
    • Schools- Priests-Tough-Boys
    • Girls would be home-schooled unless rich
    • Learned reinforced by beating - sore, not crippling
  • Art
    • Ornate and Complex- marble
    • Temples and Palaces- intricate and Elaborate
  • Entertainments
    • Festivals, drums, lyres, flutes, harps
    • top, jumps, ropes
    • boxing wrestling
    • board games- Backgammon
  • Gender Roles
    • Gender Equality
    • women were highly respected
    • Men and women- same
    • Priest, rulers, kings- both
    • Singer, weaver- women
  • Inventions
    • time
    • wheel
    • circles
    • Geometry
    • Children's toy
    • Writing
    • Irrigation
    • Dentistry
    • Medical advancements
    • Urbanization
    • Sailboats
    • Calendar

Wednesday- notes 

Thursday-  notes presented 

Friday-

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