Vocabulary• Geography• Prehistory• Anthropology• Culture• Archaeology• Artifact• Historian• Nomad• Animism• Domesticate• Civilization• Polytheistic• Pictogram• City-state• Cultural diffusion

• Silt• Delta• Dynasty• Pharaoh• Mummification• Hieroglyphics• Demotic • papyrus• Ziggurat• Cuneiform• Criminal law• Civil law• Barter economy• Money economy• Monotheistic

• Covenant• Prophet• Diaspora

Civilization Begins

Prehistory – 3000 B.C.

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Understanding Our Past

• * Archaeologists learn about the human past by studying artifacts, or objects made by people, such as tools, weapons, pottery, clothing, and jewelry. (Pre-History, before writing)

• * Historians reconstruct the past by studying written evidence such as letters or tax records and visual evidence such as photographs or films.

• Must evaluate information for reliability

Geography, the study of people and their environments

• * Geographers study five major themes– Location, where a place is on the surface of the Earth– Place, physical and human characteristics of a location– Interaction, how people have shaped and been shaped

by the places where they lived– Movement, movement of people, goods, and ideas– Region, places with similar unifying physical, economic,

or cultural features

The Dawn of History

• *Old Stone Age or Paleolithic age, until about 10,000 BC – The people were know as hunter

gatherers or nomads– People made tools, digging sticks,

spears and axes from natural materials

– Learned to build fires and wear clothing

– Developed spoken languages– Religions began

Sungir, Russia, buried

some 25,000 years ago

*New Stone Age or Neolithic Age….11,000 years ago

• *Humans learned to farm, a development that transformed the way people lived– Planting seeds and

domesticating animals• * By about 5,000 years ago, the

advances made by early farming communities led to the rise of civilizations.– Social hierarchy– Accumulation of personal property– New technologies

Beginnings of Civilizations

• *Cities, first rose in river valleys– Water– Farming– Renewable soil– Animals – Transportation

*Eight basic features common to most early civilizations:

• Cities– In fertile areas producing a food surplus

• Well-organized central governments– Needed to maintain order and the surplus– Divine Right– Bureaucracy developed

• Complex religions– Polytheistic, believing in many gods– Controlling the natural forces and human activities– People created ceremonies, temples and priests to

intervene with the gods on behalf of the people• Job specialization

– Artisans, priests, farmers, weapons maker and soldiers

Marduk

God of Thunder

Features• Social classes

– The importance of the persons job ranked them socially

• Arts and architecture– Temples to the gods– Places for the rulers

• Public works to benefit the city– Defensive walls, irrigation systems,

roads and bridges• Writing

– Pictograms– Leaders needed to keep records

Summary

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First Civilizations (3200 B.C. – 500 B.C.)

• Ancient Kingdoms of the Nile– Egypt and Nubia

• * Egyptian civilization is divided into three main periods:– Old Kingdom (2700 to 2200 BC)

• Egyptian pharaohs organized a strong centralized state

• Built majestic pyramids• Pharaoh was a God

– Middle Kingdom (2200 to 1800BC– New Kingdom (1800 to 100BC

Egyptian Civilization• Egyptians worshiped many gods and

goddesses.– * Amon-Re sun god, Osiris and Isis – They also believed in life after death

• * Developed special skills for preserving the bodies of the dead.

– Mummification, for the trip into the after life

Valley of the Kings

Tutankamun

Hieroglyphics Picture writing

• Kept records and histories of their culture on Stone, Clay and Papyrus

•* Rosette Stone Demotic and Greek

Egyptian Scientific Advances

• Mathematics developed geometry to survey fields

• Medicine diagnosing illnesses, complex surgery and medicines

• Astronomy developed a calendar which we use today

• Engineering to build the pyramids and irrigation systems. – Romans later used Egyptian engineering in their

buildings

Summary

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City States of ancient Sumer

• Sumer, the oldest civilization of the Middle East– Developed in *Mesopotamia

means “between the rivers”– On fertile land between the

Tigris and Euphrates rivers.– *Epic of Gilgamesh, oldest

works of literatureXI

City States• * Few natural resources, built

great cities of clay– Built *ziggurats pyramid temples– Sumerians made the first wheeled

vehicles• Each of which had its distinct

social hierarchy– The ruling family, leading officials,

and priests at the top– Small middle class of artists and

merchants– Peasant farmers and slaves at the

bottom

Sumerian Culture• Women had rights as in

Egypt but not as many• * The Sumerians invented

the earliest form of writing, known as cuneiform– A form of picture writing

• Made great advances in mathematics and astronomy.– 360 degrees and base 6

numbers

Sumerian Religion

• * Polytheistic– Gods controlled

every aspect of life

– More pessimistic than Egyptians

The Bull-man is a demon. He is a man above the waist and a bull below the waist. He also has the horns and the ears of a bull. He helps people fight evil and chaos. He holds the gates of dawn open for the sun god Shamash and supports the sun disc.

Ishtar is the morning and evening star (the planet we call Venus), and the goddess of love and war. She is shown as a woman standing on a lion, generally holding several weapons.

Invaders, Traders and Empire Builders

• *Mesopotamia’s location at a geographical crossroads opened it to a succession of invaders

The Babylonians

•Hammurabi, king of Babylonia

•* Published the Code of Hammurabi on a stone pillar

•The world’s first major collection of laws

•Both civil and criminal

•Improved irrigation and trained his army

The Persian Empire

• * Darius organized the empire– Provinces headed by a satrap– Based taxes on what each could

afford– Built roads– Kept moving his royal capital– Uniform weight and measures– Introduced coinage– Tolerant of the customs and cultures

under their controlDarius I - Darius the Great (521-486 BC)

Effects of Warfare and

Trade• * Spread ideas and technology around the

Mediterranean (cultural diffusion)– Hammurabi’s Code of laws– Iron-working from the Hittites– Phoenician alphabet

• Used 22 symbols for consonant sounds• Greeks added symbols for vowels (p. 109)

Summary

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The World of the Hebrews• By 1000 B.C., the Hebrews had set up the kingdom of

Israel in the Fertile Crescent of Mesopotamia.• Moses led from Egypt to Canaan (Palestine) the

promised land• King David united the feuding tribes• King Solomon built Jerusalem and an impressive

temple to God• Israel divided, Israel in the north and Judah in the

south• Nebuchadnezzer destroyed the temple and exiled the

Hebrews• Israel lived under a series of rulers

*Covenant with GodThey would obey commandments and worship Him

alone.....God would protect and Cannan would be theirs forever

• * Monotheistic– One true god all knowing, all

powerful and everywhere• * The Chosen People

– Covenant with Abraham– Renewed with Moses

• God’s laws are set down in the Ten Commandments and the Torah

• *Believed in Prophets or spiritual leaders who interpret God’s will– Preached a strong code ethics– Saw their leaders as men not gods who must obey god’s law

Summary

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The End

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