1 / 16

FOH 6

FOH 6. The Rise of Cities and Hydraulic Civilizations. As agriculture spread through the ancient world, something new appeared on the horizon…. Cities!. Where? Why there? What would you find there? What attracted people to them?.

maia
Download Presentation

FOH 6

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. FOH 6 The Rise of Cities and Hydraulic Civilizations

  2. As agriculture spread through the ancient world, something new appeared on the horizon…

  3. Cities! Where? Why there? What would you find there? What attracted people to them?

  4. To talk about these changes in the ways humans in ancient times lived, historians have found it useful to draw a distinction between two terms that are often used interchangeably in ordinary conversations:

  5. To talk about these changes in the ways humans in ancient times lived, historians have found it useful to draw a distinction between two terms that are often used interchangeably in ordinary conversations: CULTURE vs. CIVILIZATION

  6. culture?

  7. Culture = the knowledge, skills, beliefs, practices, customs, habits and other taken-for-granted aspects of daily life in a particular place and time that can be (and often are) passed on from one generation to another or one person to another and that are shared by a group of people as a common way of life

  8. civilization?

  9. civilization = a number of cities (or city-states) located in proximity to one another which share a common culture city? city-state?

  10. city = a densely populated urban area, in ancient times often surrounded by walls and containing a range of public facilities (water source, temple, markets, etc.) city-state = an independently governed entity consisting of an urban center/settlement and the surrounding lands (which provide food for urban population)

  11. First civilizations?

  12. First civilizations Mesopotamia Egypt Harrapan/Indus River valley China

  13. First civilizations Mesopotamia Tigris Euphrates Egypt Nile Harrapan/Indus River valley Indus China Huang He Yangtze

  14. Fancy term for these civilizations?

  15. hydraulic civilizations • What role did the river play in the development of a civilization? • What role did a priest play?

  16. Continued with PowerPoint by Mr Butler on “hydraulic civilizations” – segments on Mambatu (turnip god) and growth of cities.

More Related