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Explore the importance of artifacts like the Rosetta Stone, significance of river valleys in early civilizations, Phoenician achievements, and cultural aspects shaping ancient societies. Learn about Sumerian kings, Old Stone Age, and influential ancient empires like the Gupta Empire in India.
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Statue of Demedji and Hennutsen, Old Kingdom Egyptian Portrait of Mrs. Agosta and her husband 21st century, American What are these both examples of?
The Rosetta Stone • It has the same thing written in three different writing systems: hieroglyphics, demotic (Egyptian writing that was easier than hieroglyphics), and Greek. • It allowed archeologists to decipher (figure out) hieroglyphics by using the other languages there.
What is the title of the epic story about a Sumerian king who goes on many adventures?
What main feature did the ancient civilizations in the Fertile Crescent, Egypt, India and China have in common?
Where do most people (in ancient times and modern times) like to live?
Near the coast and rivers (because that’s where the fertile land is!)
They were known for:1. their seafaring skills2. their ship building 3. spreading Mesopotamian culture around the Mediterranean Sea4. INVENTING THE ALPHABET
Bringing water from a river to farmland using ditches or pipes.
The time period in which there was no civilization, no writing, people were nomadic, and farming had not occurred yet was called __________________________.
Fishing if you live near the sea. • Dressing differently depending on the climate. • Terrace farming on the sides of mountains. • Building irrigation ditches to water crops.
Culture is sometimes referred to as “a blueprint for living.” What do you think that means?
Culture is a person’s total way of life including how they eat, dress, behave and speak. It is like a blueprint because a blueprint is the general design for something like culture is a general design for your life.
Twin capitals of the ancient Indus river valley civilization that showed a great amount of urban planning.
There were exceptions to this rule from the Hammurabi Code in ancient Babylon:“An eye for an eye” TRUE OR FALSE
If you hurt someone from a lower social class, the punishment was not as harsh. TRUE
How did ideas and goods get from ancient China to the rest of Asia and eventually Europe?
What ancient Indian Empire can claim the accomplishments of iron stupas, the concept of zero, Sanskrit and free medical care?