2. PLANNER  CW: Chapter 10 section 1 Notes  CW: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids  Reminder: States Map Test Friday, Aug: 14 th Chapter 10 section 1 quiz Monday, Aug. 17 th Chapter 10 Test Wednesday Aug. 19 th WARM-UP  Look up Ch. 10 Sect. 1 vocab.  Write a sentence using each word. ** You DO NOT have to write the definition of each word, just use it in a sentence.

4. Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt

6.  Egypt and Mesopotamia – earliest known civilizations  Egypt in North Africa  Mesopotamia in Southwest Asia

9.  Located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers  Started:  Using a 12-month calendar  Predicting the floods  Used the plow  Irrigation system

10.  Sumer – location of the earliest known city- state  Invented:  The wheel  The sailboat

11.  Polytheism – worship of many gods or goddesses  Ziggurat – large tower that led to a temple where the priests lived

12.  Theocracy – government controlled by religious leaders (right to rule from the gods)

13.  First to keep lists and written records  Cuneiform – wedge like symbols in clay tablets  Schools called “tablet houses”  Only the wealthy could go to school  Wrote 1 st known story – “Epic of Gilgamesh” (similar to Noah’s Ark)

15.  2300 B.C. – Akkad conquered Sumer and created the first empire  Empire – groups of states under one ruler  Babylon eventually conquered Akkad

16.  Created number system based on 60 ▪ An hour ▪ Minute ▪ Circle  Hammurabi’s Code – an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth

20.  “Gift of the Nile”

21.  King Narmer united Upper and Lower Eqypt in 3100 B.C.

22.  An Egyptian ruler is called a pharaoh.  They believed in theocracy (religion). What does that mean?  They believed the pharaoh was a GOD.  Considered the center of Egyptian life.

25.  Theocracy – gods based on nature  Re – sun god  Hapi- river god  Horus – sky god  Osirus – harvest and eternal life god

27.  Said that the soul could not exist without the body  After death, Egyptians were:  Embalmed  Organs removed  Slowly dry the body  Wrapped in long strips of ribbon

29.  Massive tombs for the bodies of pharaohs  Statues also used to remember the great pharaohs (Sphinx)

30.  Hieroglyphics

31.  Put writing on monuments of papyrus (plant from the Nile)

32.  First to use splints, bandages, compresses, stitching wounds, and setting bones.

33.  Conquered by Greece and Rome

34.  Using the diagram on page 317, create a pyramid.  On the pyramid use pictures and only pictures to describe how you would want to be remembered. *Remember: it will be easier to draw on your pyramids before you glue them together. *use construction paper and colors; we will hang these from the ceiling after you are finished!!