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Unit Two: Ancient Civilization 
Mesopotamia
Writing: The text shows early people who lived as hunters and Nomads did not need written records. As the first cities are rose, people began to require records of ownership, business deals, and government. The Sumerians devised the world's first script or writing system. At first they use picture symbols to represent objects such as cattle, Grand, oarfish. By around 3300 BCE the citizens of work we're using about 700 different symbols, or pictographs. These were pressed into soft clay with a stylus, weaving a wedged-shaped mark that then hardened. Over the centuries the marks develop into a script that represented sound as well as meaning. Archaeologists call this cuneiform (wedge-shaped) writing. It was used by later Mesopotamian people, including the Akkadian, Babylonians, and Assyrians.(Seele 12)
Location: The text shows most ancient Mesopotamia lay within the border of modern Iraq. At times it also extended into parts of what are now Turkey, Syria, and southwestern Iran. Much of the region was hot desert, but many areas were much more fertile in quantity. Mesopotamia also included cooler mountainous regions in the north and reed-filled wheatlands in the southeast.(Steele 6)
Art: this Beaker comes from the element City of Sousa and was made nearly 6,000 years ago. It is play Painted with bold geometric patterns. Over the centuries, Potter's learned to decorate pots with paint, slips (patterns made from watery clay), imprints, and engravings. glazed finishes were perfected by about 1500 BCE. Pottery Styles varied over time. When archaeologists find Shards of pottery, the style helps them to date the site.(Steele 28)
Architecture: The text shows The crumbling Tower is All That Remains Borsippa's ziggurat. Archaeologists have identified 32 ziggurat sites. Some of the structures are still impressive, but too many have been heavily eroded by thousands of years of wind and sand.(Steele 24)
Religion: The text shows the crescent moon was said to be the boat of the Moon god, Sin. The full moon was his crown. The Moon god looked after the city of Ur, where he was worshiped under the name of Nanna. (Steele 14)
Government: The text shows The Sumerians believed that the world floated on an ocean of freshwater, called Apsu. This one rolled over Enki (later known as Ea), the god of water. In places the Waters of Apsu bursts through the Earth to form Rivers, which were the source of all wisdom. Knki who warned humankind of the great flood described in Sumerian mythology and the Bible. Enki had a special following among Woodworkers, Mason, and goldsmith.(Steele 14)
Ancient Egypt
Location: In the text it said that the ancient egyptians lived near the nile river or in various canals coming off if it. this area was also called the "black land" because after flooding there would be rich dark silt.
(Hart 8)
Architecture: The text shows Today there is a law in egypt forbidding visitors from climbing the great pyramid But is the 19th century many people felt the urge to climb the pyramid and admire the view below. It was not difficult to climb, but if you slipped, it was almost impossible to regain your footing. (Hart 20)
Writing: The text shows the beetle, symbolizing the Sun god, was often carved on the tops of stamp steals. The underside could include names, titles,or information which the owner could stamp on clay or papyrus. the large scarab tells us that Amenhotep III killed 102 lions during his reign.
(Hart 35)
Art:The text shows this section from a tomb painting shows a group of dancers and an orchestra of women paying a song in a praise of nature. The frontal view shown in this picture is very unusual in Egyptian art. (Hart 50)
Government: The text shows that the kings were called Pharaohs. They made their citizens Kiss the royal family's feet.
(Hart 12-13)
Religion: The egyptians worshiped hundreds of many different gods and goddesses and sometimes it is difficult to work out who was who. Many of the gods are represented by animals: a baboon might stand for thoth, god of wisdom, at one temple, and a moon god named khonsu at another.
FACT: the wedjat eye symbolizes both the vengeful eye of the sun god and the eye of horus,torn out by the seth in the struggle for the throne of egypt but was magically restored.
(Hart 24)
Ancient China
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Writing: in the text it said kings during the Shang dynasty used oracle bones to talk to ancestors. The people would use tortus shells and ox bones in order to inscribe questions. The questions would be scripted in the bones. (Cotterell 11)
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Ancient India
Writing: In the text it says that more than 400 symbols have been uncovered from different locations from writing. Most of the symbols are located on seals, ceramic pots, and some other types of materials. People have wondered if it actually had been part of the proper writing system. But the lack of decipherable texts means that we can't get more real insights into many of the details of the Indus society.
(Prentice Hall: World Studies)
Architecture/Technology: In the text it says that during the Ancient Indian times they really believe in hygiene and built there cities around the use of hygiene.These cities show remains of the world's earliest hygiene system. In the cities, people could get water from wells. (Prentice Hall: World Studies)
Location: The author wrote that the Indus Valley civilization covered the modern-day country of Pakistan, the northwestern portion of India, and a bit of afghanistan. In the region under layers of dirt, people found remains of 4,000 year old cities. Over time, a vast number of settlements were built on the banks of the Indus river and surrounding areas. Around 5,000 years ago, along an alluvial plain, the civilization developed and it was close to a major water source.(Prentice Hall: World Studies)
Government: In the passage it says one Aryan influence on modern-day India was the growth of the caste system. A caste is a social group which people are born and they cannot change roles. People were split based on wealth and job.(Prentice Hall: World Studies)
Religion: They author wrote that the aryans came from an area called Central Asia. They spoke a language by the name of Sanskrit which became the basis of many modern South asian language. Some of what we know about was heavily influenced by their sacred writing called Vedas. There is also the religion of ancient Aryans, known as Brahmanism, was polytheistic and heavily influenced the later development of Hinduism.
(Prentice Hall: World Studies)