- Today's Objectives
- Discuss Video Assignment
- Establish Groups For Video Assignment
- Do Something Involving Notes
- Finish Lecture Notes Involving Mesopotamia and Egypt
- Video Assignment Group
- Jet
- Lydia
- Issac
- Derek
- Henry
- What Did We Learn About Mesopotamia?
- It Sucked...Why?
- They had unpredictable, very damaging floods
- Dust storms
- Locust
- What Did They Have To Do To Sustain Agriculture?
- Dig canals for irrigation of crops
- What were the benefits of locusts?
- They were a great source of protein
- What Is Widely Open In Mesopotamia?
- Where did 80% of people live?
- Within the city, preferably for protection
- Between 4000 and 1900 BCE what four river civilizations were established and ended?
- Indus
- Mesopotamia
- Egypt
- China
- What Made Mesopotamia Special?
- What Do We Know About Gilgamesh?
- Lived in Uruk
- He was a King
- He in the tale of Gilgamesh was considered a bad king
- Gilgamesh chased after immortality
- Gilgamesh and Shamat civilized Enkidu how....
- In some stories, that is done through Enkidu having sex
- In the notes it is cited that he is taught to drink beer, how to bathe, oil your body, and comb your hair
- Who was Shamat?
- What is a Mesopotamian Proverb Based on Beer?
- He who drinks too much beer, must drink water
- What is the shelf life of Mesopotamian Beer?
- Why did Mesopotamians Drink Beer With A Straw?
- There are lots of particles in the Beer, that you want to avoid drinking, which can be done by drinking it through a straw
- How do Kings in the Ancient World Pitch Themselves?
- That the King is needed to exist for the people, as a sacred gift from the gods
- What Are The Jobs That All Ancient Kings Must Do?
- Religious Work
- To keep things right between the Gods and their people
- conducting festivals
- completing rituals
- Civic Duties
- Administration of Justice
- Generating Public Works
- Military
- Protecting the people
- Securing the water
- What is an Enduring Solution That Starts In Mesopotamia and Continues Throughout The Ancient World?
- Anyone can appeal to the king
- How Did Trade Work in Mesopotamia?
- People traded resources in a relay style between two points, with each trader moving back and forth between two trading locations.
- Goods spread from trader to trader.
- What Was The Purpose of Religious Practices in Mesopotamia?
- Ziggurats
- Divination
- To learn what the Gods desire in order to placate them
- What Were Gods Like In Mesopotamia?
- They changed on the flip of the hat
- What Is Morality Like In Mesopotamia?
- What is right and wrong is determined by the Gods Will
- What is the Mesopotamian Afterlife?
- A dark realm where you slide on your belly, it is dark, and the food is bad.
- How Does One Take Over The World?
- Collect, Maintain, And Secure As Many Resources As Possible
- Water
- Agricultural Resources
- Wood
- Metal
- People
- Textiles
- What is the Hammurabi Code?
- Was it the first law code?
- Not the first law code, not even in Mesopotamia
- What Was A Lot Of It About In Concern of Family Relationships?
- What Did Hammurabi's Laws on Family Relationships Accomplish?
- It protected women against unreasonable treatment by their husbands or other men.
- Ensures the legitimacy of children to protect the economy of families
- Was Hammurabi's Law Based on Eye for an Eye?
- No, it was based on class. Your place in the social system is what determines what kind of, and what reparations are given/received.
- Who is Hammurabi?
- Used legal precedence that already existed, and then proclaimed that Marduk chose him to be king, and that the legal precedence that already existed was proclaimed by the Gods.
- Why Doesn't Egypt Suck?
- Natural Barriers
- Open Social Structure
- There are noble families
- There are bureaucrats, who can move up in society
- Religion
- The Gods aren't petty
- Pharaoah is God on Earth, meaning that you don't have a priest hood that can fight for power.
- Climate
- The Nile is better than the Tigris and Euphrates
- The Nile floods around the same time, every year, and floods very gently
- Agriculture
- Has very fertile soil, known as Kemet
- Societal Housing
- People lived in Villages
- Why
- They had more widespread resources
- They required less security
- Why
- No in-fighting city-states
- An united Egypt
- What is the Word For No Government in Egypt?
- Primary Sources
- Definition
- Examples
- Diary
- Autobiography
- Document
- Interview
- Eye Witness Account
- Oral Tradition
- Art/Artifacts/Textiles
- Letters
- News Paper Reports
- Secondary Sources
- Definition
- Interpretation or Account of a Primary Source By a Different Source
- Examples
- Book
- Scholarly Article (Peer-Reviewed)
- Websites
- Herodotus
- Importance
- Known as the Father of History
- Greek Historian
- Type of Source
- Bias
- Doesn't Like Kids
- Cultural
- Ancient Homosexuality/Pedophiles
- It was a status symbol for a man to have sex with a child, which is heavily frowned upon in modern society.
- Women were forbidden from practicing homosexuality.
- How Did Ancient Persian People Greet One Another
- How Is the Word Barbarian Used By The Ancient Persians
- To refer to Non-Persian people
- How Did The Persians Treat Gods
- They believed them to be non-human
- How Did Persians Worship Gods
- Why Did Persian Men Not Want to See Their Children Until They Were Five?
- Men won't have to deal with the child for the most part, and can begin to interact with their child at an age in which they truly can.
- Agriculture In Nile River Valley
- Civilization moved up from the Sudan and into where?
- Where is Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt?
- What Did Herodotus Refer to Egypt As?
- When Did Egyptians Harvest Crops?
- There were annual floods during the summer
- Crops are harvested in Winter and Early Spring
- First Egyptian Kingdoms
- Small kingdoms appeared in Egypt and Nubia by 3300 B.C.
- Agriculture societies built organizations which controlled or regulated public and private life.
- Menes
- The first pharaoh of Egypt, the first ruler, of the first dynasty
- Known as Narmer
- Established his rule in Memphis
- Established a Centralized Government
- Pharaohs
- Claimed to be Gods manifest among men
- Claimed to be Offspring of the Sun God
- Kingdoms of Egypt
- Archaic Period
- Old Kingdom
- Middle Kingdom
- New Kingdom
- Pyramids
- Were constructed during the Old Kingdom.
- Made from 2.3 million limestone blocks with an average weight of 5000 pounds.
- Nubia
- Had periodic battles with who?
- Developed a southern kingdom called what?
- Middle Kingdom of Egypt
- Central state under the pharaoh re-emerged after a short decline
- Pharaohs lost power that they once held
- Egypt was invaded by the Hyskos
- The Hyskos has an advantage thanks to being able to combat using chariots.
- Egypt unified to fight against the Hyskos, and won, which allowed them to establish the New Kingdom
- New Kingdom of Egypt
- Population
- Expanded territory in response to what?
- Controlled Nubian Territory to A Certain Point
- Nubian leaders revived Kush
- Social hierarchies of Egypt
- Pharaoh
- Professional Military Forces
- Bureaucrats and Administrators
- Tax Collectors
- Peasants and Slaves
