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Unit Two Ancient Civilizations 
Mesopotamia
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Location in the text it said that most of the area that was ancient mesopotamia was located in modern day Iraq.Two great rivers the tigris and Euphrates, join near Al-Qurnain Iraq.(Steele 6)
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Ancient Egypt
Location in the text it said that the ancient Egyptians lived near the Nile River or in various canals coming off of it.This area was also called the black land because after flooding after there would be rich dark silt.(hart 8)
religion: The Egyptians worshiped hundreds of different gods and goddesses. many of the gods are represented by animals: a baboon might stand for thoth, the god of wisdom, at one temple. and a moon god named khonsu at another
Government: At great state occasions like royal jubilee celebrations or the giving of gifts to favored countries, the king and court gathered together, and the top officials ect, some of these countries were relatives of the king, someone high office through their ability as scribes (hart 12)
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art Many of the products and tools of the ancient Egyptian carpenter have survived, including a variety of objects made from the various trees that grew in the Nile valley or delta.For roofing beams the carpenter could use either the date palm or the doum palm. (Hart 42)
Writing Scribes hat to be experts at writing hieroglyphics an elaborate from the picture with about 700 different signs. It was deliberately kept complicated so that not to many people could master it. so that Scribes could keep there special position. Hieroglyphics were also used to state monuments, temples, tombs, ect. they could be written from left to right to top to bottom (hart 34)
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 tortoise shells and ox bones in order to inscribe questions. The questions would be scripted in the bones. (Cotterell 11)
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The mesopotamians were writing down numbers over 5,000 years ago.The early civilizations of mesopotamia made astonishing advances in scholarship and learning,in astronomy, mathematics, medicine, geography and architecture
During the first babylonian empire students were using multiplication tables and calculating squares,square roots, cubes, and cube roots.Today's mathematics still use the old babylonian counting system, based on multiplies of 60, when they divide the circle into 360 degrees.