warm-up 9/2 – turn in hw later the ancient egyptians were obsessed with the idea of life after...

Warm-up 9/2 – Turn in HW later

• The Ancient Egyptians were obsessed with the idea of life after death.

• In what ways might geography have played a roll in shaping their strong belief in an afterlife?

If you don’t know the

answer, just ask your mummy

AP – Chapter 1 Quiz

• 1.What is bi-pedalism? List 2 advantages of it.• 2.How do archeologists “DESCRIBE” the difference

between the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages?• 3.What is the Neolithic Revolution and what is an

important way it changed people’s lives?• 4.Define the terms: prehistory, nomad, and

sedentary • 5. What animal was domesticated in the Americas?• 6. What important achievement did the Babylonian

King named Hammurabi accomplish?

Civilizations developed.

• Civilizations are advanced cultures that have the following things:

• 1) Cities

• 2) Formal Governments (Kings, Queens, etc.)

• 3) Formal religion (Priests, Temples)

4) Social classes – rulers, priests, warriors,

workers, slaves, etc.5) Writing

6) Art, sculpture, or advanced architecture

Limerick

• Along river valleys the first cities arose

• From fertile soil everything grows

• Civilizations emerged

• Artistic endeavors did surge

• Empires rose and fell as the wind blows

Limerick

• There once was a King named Hammurabi

• Writing laws was his favorite hobby

• The guilty paid with an eye

• But no one asked why

• His laws favored the rich and the snobby

How to analyze Primary Source documents

• SOAPPSTONE• S = Subject matter• O = Occasion• A = Audience• P = Purpose• P = Point of View• Tone = Tone

  #3 If any one bring an accusation of any crime before the elders, and does not prove

what he has charged, he shall, if it be a capital offense charged,

be put to death.

  #6 If any one steal the property of a temple or of the

court, he shall be put to death, and also the one who receives the stolen thing from him shall

be put to death.

 #109 If conspirators meet in the house of a tavern-keeper, and these conspirators are not captured and delivered to the

court, the tavern-keeper shall be put to death.

117   If any one fail to meet a claim for debt, and sell himself, his wife, his

son, and daughter for money or give them away to forced labor: they shall work for three years in the house of the man who bought them, or the proprietor, and in the fourth year they shall be set free.

129   If a man's wife be surprised

(in flagrante delicto) with another man, both shall be tied and thrown into the water, but the husband may pardon his wife and the king his slaves.

148   If a man take a wife, and she be

seized by disease, if he then desire to take a second wife he shall not put away his wife, who has been attacked by disease, but he shall

keep her in the house which he has built and support her so long as she

lives.

196   If a man put out the eye of

another man, his eye shall be put out. [ An eye for an eye ]

200   If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be

knocked out. [ A tooth for a tooth ]

209   If a man strike a free-born woman so that she lose her unborn child, he shall pay ten shekels for her

loss.

210   If the woman die, his daughter

shall be put to death.

What are some important differences between the laws of

Hammurabi and the laws we have today?

A monarch

Art

Architecture

Writing

Larger cities required…

• There were certain projects that individuals could not do like building irrigation projects and city walls.

• Advanced projects required cooperation.

• United efforts required leadership.

Invention and innovation

• Are found in cities

• People can copy and share ideas easily

• The use of metals

• The use of animals for labor

Civilization emerges

• Near rivers

• Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, Americas

• Sumerian Civ. appears in Mesopotamia

• Cuneiform, the wheel, 12 month calendar, math system based on 60, arches and columns.

• Polytheism, Ziggurats

Babylonians and then…

• 1700BCE Hammurabi

• Hittites, Assyrians, Chaldeans (new Babylonians), Persia

How were ideas spread?

• Trade, cultural diffusion, war

• The huge Persian Empire brought many cultural groups inside the same Empire

Lydians, Phoenicians, and Hebrews

• Lydians – Coined Money

• Phoenicians – 22 letter alphabet

• Hebrews – Monotheism

Egypt

• Nile River

• Old, Middle, New

• King Menes, pharaohs, hieroglyphics

• Importance of trade

• Afterlife

• Hatshepsut

More on Egypt

• Social structure from top to bottom

• Why did Egypt and the other large Mesopotamian civilizations decline?

Homework

•Handout Mesopotamian and Egyptian religions reading and questions