1. Today: Pyramids Over Time Mesopotamia Chart is Due Tomorrow!
11/29/11 BR- Prove your point: “Mesopotamia was a place of advanced civilizations.”
Today: Pyramids Over Time
Mesopotamia Chart is Due Tomorrow!

2. KWL - Egypt What do you know about it? What do you want to know?
What have you learned?

3. Homework Read 35-41 Complete Questions 1-8 on page 41.
Follow Cornell Notes Format.
Title: Pyramids on the Nile Pg 41
Copy the questions into the left column and answer them on the right.
Write a brief summary of why Egypt would be classified as an advanced civilization.

5. Geography
Movement
The Nile flows north from its source in Lake Victoria to its mouth in the Mediterranean Sea which forms a delta.
Upper and Lower Egypt
(This is tricky!)
River flow

6. Advanced Cities Thebes – center of artifacts
Temple of Luxor
Valley of Kings
Valley of Queens
Necropolis
Giza – Sphinx & Great Pyraminds

7. Complex Institutions Pharaoh Dynasty Theocracy polytheism
Egyptian gods
Amun-Ra
Osiris
pyramids
mummification

8. Record Keeping & Writing
Pictograms
Hieroglyphics
Papyrus
Rosetta Stone

9. Advanced Technology Pyramid Calendar Forensics Water clock Sun dial
Bronze work
medicine

10. Specialized Workers?