Week of September 6-9

Tuesday-

Phoenician

Economic

  • Greatest seafaring civilization
  • north star was originally called phoenician star
  • When they dyed there clothes it would dye them purple, they were called "purple People"
  • known as great ship builders

Advancements

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

Political advancements

  • Kingship
  • Alliances- King israelite
  • Social Structure
  • Republic Government- Tyre

Social

  • Religion
    • Polytheistic
  • Education
    • Educated only by elders in Community
  • Art
    • Influenced by egyptian and mesopotamian art
  • Entertainment
    • Music and Hymns
    • Festivals
  • Gender Rules
    • Women were lower than men

Babylon

Political

  • 1894 City state
  • Absolute monarchy

Economy

  • Agriculture
  • Barter/Trade system

Social

  • Religion
    • Strong belief in many immortal gods
  • Gender rules
    • Men had more rights
  • Entertainments
    • Hunted
    • Boxed wrestled
    • Board Games
  • Art
    • Some in architecture

Hanging Garden

  • Believed to float in the sky
  • 7 wonders of the world
  • 605 B.C.
  • 8200 gallons of water 75 ft high

Geography

  • Largest city in the world from 1770 to 1670 B.C.
  • First major city to reach 200,000
  • Natural protection-Caucasus mountains, Asir and Hejaz Mountains, Arabian desert, An Nafud Desert, Anatolian Plateau, Black sea, Red Sea, Medditaria Sea, Persian Gulf

Wednesday 

Harappan

Background

  • 3300-3100 B.C.
  • Indus River valley civilization
  • Found by "James Lewis *british army Deserter* Posed as a american engineer

Geography

  • Large village on the province of punjab and Pakistan
  • Begun around 2900 to 2500 B.C.
  • Earliest know indus valley civilization
  • Natural Barriers- Hindu kush mountains, Himalayan mountains
  • Surrounding by mountains but is in a dessert
  • The great bath is one of the best known structures of theirs
  • used as a public bath
  • it was the largest of the 4 ancient civilizations
  • the two largest cities are mohenjo- Daro and Harappa
  • both were urban with populations of 40,000 people
  • streets ran from north to south and east to west
  • Built some of the worlds fist planned cities
  • created on of the first written languages

Religion

  • Polytheistic
  • worshiped the goddess of fertility
  • haven't fount a temple yet
  • buried objects with the dead
  • they worshiped a lot of nature

Entertainment

  • They enjoyed dance
  • Had a large pool (great bath)

Art

  • Bronze statues, terracotta figures, bowles made of silver and bronze
  • Many pictograms and animal designs
  • they were very literate people they used the dravidian language

Technology

  • Seals for currency(traded)
  • Created beads from bone and other people
  • Created weights for trade and tax

Political

  • Government was a theocracy
  • Lots of things related to hinduism
  • they had 3 Laws
  • Defined the classes
  • Kept the order
  • Religion was a huge role in the laws and beliefs
  • Karma(one of their laws)- people choose their fate in the after life, if you are bad in you first life, you will be poor in your second life
  • Cycle of samsara(the third law)-the cycle of birth, death and rebirth
  • they want to achieve nirvana
  • They were a peaceful civilization

how and when

  • 3300-1300 B.C.
  • Himalayan and hindukush mountain provided protection
  • The water way provide for trade
  • people were farmers
  • commoners harvested twice a year because of all of the natural disasters
  • no one knows why they lost powers, could have been a river drying up

Economy

  • Urban and mercantile
  • Traded with mesopotamia, southern india, afghanistan and gold , silver and turquoise were traded
  • were a rich civilization
  • rich used gold instruments with jewels
  • had weights and measures
  • Ate a lot of wheat rice and vegetables
  • raised cows,bulls, buffalo,sheep, goats, and camels

thursday 

Egyptians

Where

  • Egypt lies in norther africa
  • bordered by Gaza Strip, Israel, Libya and Sudan
  • Desert to east and west
  • mountains to the south
  • mediterranean sea to the east also
  • Souther egypt contains low mountains and deserts
  • northern egypt contains wide valleys near the nile
  • total area of 386,662 miles
  • nile valley,nile delta,western desert, eastern desert, sinai peninsula

Economy

  • Worked around the nile
  • grew food
  • made mud bricks
  • Farmers
  • Craftsman

Politics

  • Pharaoh was the highest
  • Agriculture was the foundation of government and economy

  • Before the old kingdom
  • Barter system
  • taxes-animals, crops, jewelry, precious stones

  • Old kingdom
  • Government centralized
  • pharaoh ruled
  • pyramis started to be built
  • 5th and 6th dynasty is when pharaoh's started to collapse

  • Middle kingdom
  • Pharaohs added more officials
  • determined what people paid in taxes
  • mayor of each town became in power
  • no central government

  • New kingdom
  • created 20 little nomes
  • created a military
  • let people enlist in the military

Religion

  • polytheism
  • temples ( worship places)
  • everyone would pray everyday
  • gods could be female or male
  • all gods part animal
  • they created myths to explain life
  • mummification gave you soul life forever
  • only royal and rich got mummified

Education

  • boys and girls would stay until 4 and then got to school
  • schools where in temple
  • most girls usually stayed home and learned about motherhood

most boys at age 4 would learn what there fathers did and take over there job

  • wealthy at age 7 were to become scribes, writers, and artists 

Art

  • Made a lot of sculptures, paintings, masks
  • valued clothes, jobs and their religion

Entertainment

  • board game and sport
  • created team uniforms and neutral referees
  • maintain healthy and body and mind
  • adult played games with dice
  • kids played with balls, wrestled, and shot arrows

Gender roles

  • women were responsible for children and house chores
  • men provided for the family
  • men worked outside
  • women worked inside

Inventions

  • hieroglyphics
  • papyrus
  • ink
  • black
  • calendars
  • clocks
  • ramp,lever
  • glass, beads
  • furniture
  • medicine
  • plow
  • Dental hygiene
  • make-up
  • Pyramids,tombs

Friday-

We Presented

monday study day

test 

1st part verble

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