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Toward Civilization

Toward Civilization. Do Now. Take out your drawings of gods and goddesses. Objectives. Essential Question: How did the Nile River support early civilization in ancient Egypt? 1. Summarize your findings of Egyptian gods and goddesses.

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Toward Civilization

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  1. Toward Civilization

  2. Do Now • Take out your drawings of gods and goddesses

  3. Objectives • Essential Question: How did the Nile River support early civilization in ancient Egypt? • 1. Summarize your findings of Egyptian gods and goddesses. • 2. Summarize and interpret information found in the textbook • 3. Recognize the significance of an advanced civilization in Egypt.

  4. Question 1 • 1. By 3100 B.C., early Egyptians were developing an advanced civilization in towns along the Nile.

  5. Question 2 • 2. What advances in Egyptian society do you see in the first paragraph?

  6. Question 2 • A. They built temples as places of worship and stone tombs to hold the bodies of rulers who had died. • B. Early writing appears on these temples and tombs. • C. The Egyptians made pottery on which they painted scenes from their lives. • D. They mined copper for tool-making and gold for decorative art.

  7. Egyptian Pottery

  8. Copper Gold

  9. Question 3 • What 2 crops were primarily grown in Egypt?

  10. Question 3 Wheat Barley

  11. Question 4 • Where were these crops grown?

  12. Question 4 Nile Valley Nile Delta

  13. Question 5 • The SinaiPeninsula was a crossroads for early Egyptians and traders from southwesternAsia.

  14. Sinai Peninsula

  15. Question 6 • Trade also took place on the NileRiver. This served as a highway connecting Egyptian settlements. To use this “highway,” Egyptians became expert shipbuilders.

  16. Question 7 • Explain how shipbuilding progressed in Egypt.

  17. Question 7 • At first, Egyptians built their boats from bundles of reeds. Later, they made large sailing ships out of wood from what is now Lebanon.

  18. Egyptian Boat

  19. Lebanon

  20. Question 8 • Sails did more than just increase traveling speed. They also made it possible for ships to sail upstream against the river’s current.

  21. Question 9 • This meant that nearly all the Nile, except for the cataracts in Nubia, could be used for travel and trade.

  22. Question 10 • Trade and travel made it possible for some towns to grow into cities. Then some of these tradecenters emerged as separate cultures and powers.

  23. Question 11 • By 3100 B.C., Egypt consisted on what 2 kingdoms?

  24. Question 11 • Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt

  25. Wrap Up • List at least 3 things that you learned in today’s lesson. Be sure to include 1 fact that you learned about Egyptian gods or goddesses.

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