What Makes Us Civilized P Political Organization P
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What Makes Us Civilized?
P. • Political Organization
P. E. • Political Organization • Economy
P. E. R. • Political Organization • Economy • Religion
P. E. R. S. • • Political Organization Economy Religion Society/Social Classes
P. E. R. S. I. • • • Political Organization Economy Religion Society/Social Classes Innovations/Technology
P. E. R. S. I. A. • • • Political Organization Economy Religion Society/Social Classes Innovations/Technology Art/Architecture
Mesopotamia Land Between Two Rivers
Crossroads of Three Continents
Mesopotamia The Fertile Crescent • Floods unpredictable • No natural barriers for defense • Few natural resources except reeds
Sumerians 3000 BCE
Sumerian Political Organization • Priests with religious and power – Success of crops – irrigation • Warrior kings – Defense – Dynasties • • City-states—Ur Laws Taxes Public Works – Ziggurats – Walled cities
Royal Standard of Ur What does this reveal about Mesopotamian culture? Found in the royal cemetery. Depicts scenes of war and peace
Economy • Agriculture – Catastrophic floods • Irrigation • Canals – Date Palms, grains such as barley and wheat • Trade – Traded—grain, cloth, crafted tools – Received—stone, wood, metal
Mesopotamian Trade From Egypt to India
Sumerian Cylinder Seals • Carved in reverse to leave a negative image. • Used as receipts and to show ownership.
Religion • • Polytheistic Goddesses Afterlife Pessimistic
Society • Social Hierarchy • • Kings, ruling family and Priests Merchants, scribes, lesser priests Peasant farmers Slaves – Captured in war – Sold self into slavery to pay off debts
Sumerian Scribes Over 500 characters— required years of schooling
Innovations • • Cuneiform Canals, dams, irrigation Mud bricked walls Wheeled vehicles, sail, plow? ? Number system based on 60 Arches, columns, ramps Ziggurat
Cuneiform Wedge Shaped Writing on Clay Tablets Earliest form of writing
Deciphering Cuneiform
Metallurgy Skills What is the significance that gold could not be found within 200 miles of Mesopotamia?
Art and Architecture
Ziggurats Tallest building in the city-state Grim view of afterlife
• Babylonian – Hammurabi • Law Code
Hammurabi’s Code STELE
Hammurabi the Judge “Eye for an eye” Why are written laws important?
The Ancient Egyptians These expensive projects were part of the reason for the decline. Climatic disasters also led to decreased grain supply Slaves were not used to build these but rather peasants who did so instead of paying taxes, public works projects, or serving in the military
Satellite photo of Nile River Deserts, jungles, seas, and cataracts provided natural barriers Rich, fertile soil Source=Lake Victoria to the south Optimistic outlook Reliance on floods
Nile River “Longest River in the World” Lower Upper
Egypt: The Gift of the Nile • Canals built to connect Red Sea and Nile River • 95% of the Egyptian people live on 5% of the land Annual flooding of the Nile
The Fertile Nile Valley What can you tell about the Egyptians from the picture?
Irrigation
Menes Unifier of Upper and Lower Egypt 3000 BCE 1 st Pharaoh
Ancient Egyptian Housing Middle Class Housing Peasant Homes
Daily Life
Social Hierarchy Women could own property and succeed to the throne
Pharoahs Thutmose III Amenhotep Queen Hatshepsut “Akenaton” 1480 BCE 1370 BCE
Akenaton “First Monotheist? ” Said he was=to sun god Priests unhappy= Why?
Tutankhamen Ramses Last Pharaoh
Archaeologist Howard Carter 1922
Priestly Class
Scribe First scribes were priests
Papyrus = Paper Hieratic Scroll Piece Used to make rope, mats, sandals, baskets
Champollion and the Rosetta Stone • 1799—French troops • Stone commemorates visit of Greek Ambassador—written in hieroglyphics, hieratic, and Greek
Hieroglyphics 24 letters plus 700 phonetics Literacy needed in the bureaucracy to keep the records
Gods and Goddesses Osiris God of underworld Isis Horus
Book of the Dead A collection of hymns as a guide to the afterlife. Anubis weighs heart against feather
The Final Judgment Osiris, Anubis, Horus
Trade Routes Nile, Canals to Red Sea, Overland
Innovations Medical texts Hieroglyphics Math based on units of ten Astronomy
Hittites Beginning of Iron Age origin in present day Turkey 1900 BCE-1193 BCE Spoke wheeled chariots Iron Weapons
The Harappan Civilization 3300 BCE - 2400 BCE
Citadel of Mohenjo-Daro Grid layout
Aerial View of Mohenjo-Daro
Wide View, Mohenjo-Daro
Main Street, Mohenjo-Daro
pottery, Mohenjo-Daro
Bison Seal, Mohenjo-Daro
Necklace, Mohenjo-Daro
Public Well, Harappa
Unicorn Seal, Harappa
Burial Pottery, Harappa
Harappan Writing Undecipherable to date.
China’s History
Shang Dynasty 1700 -1027 BCE Huang He River
Oracle Bones
Zhou 1028 -771 BCE
Mandate of Heaven The Zhou justified taking over from the Shang by saying that they had lost divine approval to rule
Zhou Dynasty 1029 -258 BCE • • Leaders/Traits Walled cities Trade routes between cities Mandate of Heaven Feudalism Philosophy • Daoism – Laozi – 500’s BCE • Confucianism – – Mencius Analects Chaotic government 522 BCE
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