2. Definition of A.W. In the Ancient World the first
importantcivilizations appeared: Mesopotamia,Egypt, Greece and
Rome. It started in theyear 3.000 BC with the invention ofwriting
and ended in the year 476 AD withthe fall of the Roman Empire. 3.
INDEX Mesopotamia and Egypt Greece Rome Famous buildings (Egypt,
Greece andRome) 4. Mesopotamia and Egypt Mesopotamia: was between
the riversTigris and Euphrates. There wereimportant cities like
Babylon. They wrotethe first laws. Egypt: was next to the river
Nile. Its kingswere called pharaons. They built greatmonuments like
the piramids. 5. PiramidsBabylon 6. Greece Greece: the Greeks were
the first peopleto have a political systems based ondemocracy.
Culture was very important and theirarchitecture, sculpture and
literaturewere very advanced. 7. Parthenon 8. Rome Rome: romans
conquered many territoriesand created a great Empire, whose
capitalwas Rome. Latin, there lenguage, spread throughoutthe
Empire. Many European languages arebased on it. 9. A temple of
RomeRoman Coliseum 10. Famous buildings (Egypt) Egypt has
famousbuildings like thepiramids. They itscalled: Keops,Kefren
andMicerino.MICERINOKEFRENKEOPSPiramids 11. Famous buildings
(Greece) Greek has manyfamous buildingslike the templesTemple of
Greek 12. Famous buildings ( Rome) Rome has manyfamous
buildingslike the RomanColiseum, temples,aqueducts, roads Roman
Coliseum Roman ForumRoman road Roman aqueducts 13. The End
