ANCIENT RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS

I.

Location!
A. B. Looking at your maps, what do the cities all have in common?! In what ways did River Valley Civilizations develop similarly?

 2. Earliest Locations!
Nile River Valley! Tigris and Euphrates Rivers! Huang He River!

3. Time Period!
1000BCE in Europe and Asia! 750 BCE Africa

" SHARED CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIETIES

Specialized Labor! Advanced Technology Dependent! Government for mass organization! Complex system of shared beliefs

 C. Economy!
The ways in which people use the environment around them to meet their material needs!
Irrigation! Specialization of labor ! Trade! Development of writing

 Rise of the Cities!

Read through Chapter 1 Section 1 and identify values that were shared by each of the cultures of the River Valleys

QUESTION OF THE DAY!

You are the king or queen of your own city-state. Write ten laws with their consequences to keep order in your society.

MESOPOTAMIA
Where is it? ! !
On your maps, label the modern nations of the Fertile Crescent: Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, Iraq!
Mark an M for modern

MESOPOTAMIA!
Meaning!
land between rivers!
In the middle of the Tigris and Euphrates

SUMERIANS
A. Builders of the first Mesopotamian Cities! City States- define from page 59!
Each city state independent but with common culture, language and religion

CONTRIBUTIONS OF SUMERIANS
Read about the Sumerians on pages 59-61 !
List their contributions to Middle Eastern Culture!
In what ways did they affect the role of women in the world? How did they change record keeping etc.

SARGON
King of the Akkadians !
United all of the city states of Mesopotamia under one ruler!

! Hammurabi!
King of Babylon!
Organized a strong government and turned Babylon into the major city in the world

EGYPT

What was the relationship between religion and government in Ancient Egypt?

LOCATION

Along the Nile.! Good for Agriculture

UNITING EGYPT
A. Establishment of the Monarchies!
1. United Villages! 2. Small Kingdoms! 3. Strong Kings conquer weaker kings

 B. Narmer!
King of Upper Egypt! Conquered Lower Egypt!
Capital in Memphis!

Founder of first DYNASTY

LIFE AS AN EGYPTIAN

ERAS OF EGYPT
Old Kingdom 2700-2200 Theocratic Bureacracy Pyramids Middle Kingdom 2050-1600 Southern Capital (Thebes) Trade with Persia Fall to Hyksos New Kingdom 1600-945 Pharaohs Creation of Empire Leveled society

Read Chapter 2 Section One: Create a Venn Diagram of the three kingdoms of Egypt.

 Pyramid of Egyptian ! Society

Upper Class

Royals, Nobles, Priests

Middle Class

Lower Classes

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