The Bronze Age → Dark Ages Greece Mesopotamia - Tigris and Euphrates Egypt - Nile : flooding every year which makes the soil fertile In the 4th millenium‚ settled clusters of people 1. Predynastic 2. Old kingdom - known for grandiose architecture (pyramids) 3. First intermediate 4. Middle kingdom - brief‚ unspectacular 5. Second intermediate period - started around 1800 B.C.‚ Egypt is experiencing a decline‚ irregular floods‚ people losing trust in the government. Hyksos
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Geography DBQ The ancient world is very unique‚ and in some ways tough to figure out. The hardest part of solving the mysteries of ancient times is getting in the minds of the people living back then. No one can completely understand the full effect of a regions geography on the shaping of civilization. The only way we can fully comprehend a civilizations reliance on geography is by reading into it. Through documents and maps we can start to understand the impact geography had on a civilizations
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die it was the first non-conformist ideas he taught them . Then he started his next class when he told his students to rip the introduction of their book. The introduction describes poetry in a very mathematical way‚ by measuring the enjoyment by the hymn verse and the length .So he told his students to rip out the pages because he was a transcendentalist /
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Historical Context Geographical‚ topography and resources of Egypt and its neighbours Geographical‚ topography and resources of Egypt and its neighbours Dominated by the Nile River Key facts about the Nile: - 7000km in length - formed from 3 rivers; the white Nile‚ the Blue Nile and the Atbara - Flows north towards the Mediterranean sea - broken up in 6 places by impenetrable rocky outcrops and rapids known as cataracts - Consists of three sections * narrow 800km stretch
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Between the late 17th century and early 18th century‚ almost all of Africa was under European rule. This was in great contrast to 1880‚ when close to none of Africa was under direct rule of the continents. This stark change in power was due to the interest in raw materials‚ new trade opportunities‚ political gain over other countries‚ and Europeans feeling the need to spread Christianity‚ democracy‚ and capitalism. (Spielvogel and McTighe 230-233). Although European imperialism helped to "civilize"
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1.2 and 1.3 and your own knowledge‚ explain the changes in the solar cult before the reign of Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten (10 marks – 800 words) In a land like Egypt where the sun was one of the two dominating forces of nature (the other being the Nile)‚ it was natural for the people to worship the sun as a god. Solar (sun) worship had been practiced throughout Egypt in one form or another since Predynastic times. Popular beliefs about the sun god varied from place to place as did the names by which
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Many civilizations have risen and fallen over the course of time‚ yet they have all left an impact on the world. As they conquered the nations surrounding them‚ they spread their revolutionary ideas that affected the world centuries later. One such influential nation is the famed empire of Egypt. The Egyptians accomplished breakthroughs throughout their society‚ yet all their accomplishments could not have been completed without the intelligence of the people. The Egyptians surroundings and their
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Buried kings and executed royal servants- meet king’s needs in afterlife Religion- source of good and evil (associated w/ rain) After 5000 B.C- climatic change- hotter‚ drier (drove inhabitants out) Nile river valley- fertile- support agricultural economy Egypt and Nubia: “Gifts of the Nile” Egypt broader floodplain than Nubia- better advantage of floods Migrants introduced collecting grains‚ language of Coptic‚ crops (watermelon)‚ animals (cattle‚ donkey) Egyptians- after flood‚ sowed
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1 The Birth of Civilization Mohenjo-Daro Figure. Scholars believe this limestone statue from about 2500 B.C.E. depicts a king or a priest from Mohenjo-Daro in the Indus valley in present-day Pakistan. Does this figure seem to emphasize the features of a particular person or the attributes of a particular role? Hear the Audio for Chapter 1 at www.myhistorylab.com CRAIMC01_xxxii-031hr2.qxp 2/17/11 3:22 PM Page xxxii EARLY HUMANS AND THEIR CULTURE page 1 WHY IS “culture” considered a defining
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sustaining properties. The oldest religious literature of India is the Rig-Veda; a hymn from the Rig Veda claims that human life began “in the watery darkness” (Fiero 14). Another creation story passed down orally by African tribal people says that life originated in “the slender grasses that grow in wet‚ marshy soil” (Fiero 14). This is very similar to Egyptian myths of creation that stated “At the beginning of time‚ the Niles primordial waters brought forth a mound of silt‚ out of which emerged the self-generating
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