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
2nd part essay
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