Explain the rise of civilization in one of the following locations: Ancient Egypt‚ Indus River Valley‚ or Mesopotamia. Egypt‚ otherwise known as the “Gift of the Nile”‚ started as small villages along the great Nile River‚ and slowly became greater to the point of city-states‚ and eventually a great empire. The small villages evolved into the thriving civilization by three major doings; commercial trade along the river influencing and ultimately boosting their economy‚ architecture that has lasted
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Emergence of Native Empire (Group 2) Cristobal‚ Lorraine Laxamana‚ Chelsi Nato‚ Joie Remigion‚ Lyndon Sambat‚ Ezekiel Sta. Romana‚ Catherine Mesopotamia 5000 BCE-600 BCE Mesopotamia (from the Greek‚ meaning ’between two rivers’) The ’two rivers’ of the name referred to the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers and the land was known as ’Al-Jazirah’ (the island) by the Arabs referencing what Egyptologist J.H. Breasted would later call the Fertile Crescent‚ where Mesopotamian civilization began. Lasted
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On top of the "Social Pyramid‚" which is about all the classes rated high to low‚ is the Pharoh. Which was the ruler of Egypt. (Pharaoh already did in government.) Nobles and priests were under the Pharaohs. Nobles were to make sure taxes were collected and to watch and supervise the king’s tomb in Vally of the Kings. Priests performed ceremonies at all temples through Egypt. Priests usually pass down their job to their son. Soldiers were under the Nobles and Priests. They were in the Egyptian
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Ahmose I‚ or he was called Amosis‚ Amenes‚ and aahmes and his name reflects to the lah born. The son of Pharaoh Seqenenre Tao and brother of last pharaoh in seventeenth dynasty (King Kamose). Ahmose I was a Pharaoh of ancient Egypt in the eighteenth dynasty. Also‚ he was one of the members of the Theban royal house. At the reign time his father or grandfather Thebes rebelled against the rulers of eygpt; Hyksos.At the age of seven‚ Ahmose I father was killed and at the age of ten his brother was dead
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Egypt was located in the desert along the Nile river. Without the Nile‚ Egypt would be just the barren desert that surrounds the river. Ancient Egypt had two distinct regions‚ Upper Egypt in the south and Lower Egypt in the north. Upper Egypt stretched from the Nile’s first waterfall‚ to within one hundred miles of the Mediterranean Sea. Lower Egypt covered the delta region where the Nile empties into the Mediterranean. In 3100 B.C. The king of Upper Egypt‚ United the two regions. Egypt’s first
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Egypt It is possible to prove that the Ancient Egyptians believed in the possession of a "soul" or animism. For example‚ the Ancient Egyptians had a name for "soul" (the ba)‚ which artists depicted as a human-headed bird. The association of a bird to the soul is rather interesting in that‚ to the Ancient Egyptians‚ birds had a magical power that humans did not: flight. It has also been in very recent times that humans have been obsessed with flight: the Wright Brothers and others like them‚ for
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This snapshot is a depiction of a powerful dynasty that ruled Egypt 5‚000 years ago. The snapshot is a portrayal of the Egyptian civilization and its wonders. Just as many civilizations before it‚ the Egyptian civilization arose from the banks of a river; the Nile. The mighty river which flowed north from Africa to the Mediterranean Sea sparked the fire that started the powerful empire. Because Egypt was full of deserts. Many Egyptians was forced to live by the banks of the Nile. The Nile provided
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for agricultural production. 2 of the greatest river-valley civilizations were Mesopotamia and Egypt. All though they both supported having a patriarchal leader or king‚ Egypt had a strong‚ centralized government‚ whereas Mesopotamia was decentralized‚ and built based on small city-states operating independently. In both societies‚ the patriarchal leaders were influenced by religion tremendously. For example‚ in Egypt‚ all the citizens believed that not only did their pharoah have “powers”‚ but
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The ancient Egyptians use a metal tool and put it through the nose. They scrambled the brain with this tool and pulled it all out of the nose. The ancient Egyptians practiced mummification in order to preserve the body‚ the process had many steps‚ and it was believed that the soul needed a body for the afterlife. The ancient Egyptians preserved the bodies of the dead. They believed that to live forever in the afterlife they had to preserve the body. At the time when the pyramids where being built
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important part of ancient Egyptians’ life and society was religion. They are a polytheistic religion: believing in more than one god. In ancient Egyptian civilization‚ death and the afterlife were very important events. To the Egyptians’‚ death was far from the end and they believed that life continued even after death‚ so to ensure that the dead received comfortable passage to the afterlife various rituals were carried out‚ such as mummification which is in reverence to the gods. Ancient Egyptians’ believed
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