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ANCIENT EGYPT
location: On page eight it said that "The Egyptians lived on the banks of the Nile River." Ninety percent of the land was desert and called Red land, but most people lived along the river. Without the silt that fertilized the land, there would not have been an Egyptian civilization. (HART 8)
Architecture: The architecture in Ancient Egypt was pyramids. Tons of the pyramids were built to honor a king that had passed away. That's why the pyramids were built, to honor the kings. In the text it said "The first pyramid was built at the burial place of King Djoser in c. 2650 BCE, by his gifted architect Imhotep. (HART 20)
Religion: I know the religion because it said in the text that the Egyptians believed in many different gods and goddesses. In the text it also said "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. This shows that there are many different names and beliefs for the gods. (HART 24)
Writing: The graphic showed that the scribes had to be very skilled people. They had to be skilled in writing hieroglyphs. The hieroglyphs were very popular and they were a big part of their culture. That's why the scribes had to be very skilled, when writing the hieroglyphs. The hieroglyphs were very important. In the text it said "Hieroglyphs were used on state monuments, temples, tombs, and religious papyri." (HART 34)
Art: In Ancient Egypt there was a lot of gold, that cost a lot of money. A lot of the gold was found between the Nile and the Red Sea. There was a lot of jewelry in Ancient Egypt. The goldsmiths made the gold. In the text it says "You can see the glint of gold everywhere in Egyptian jewelry." (HART 56)
Government: In the book it says that the Ancient Egyptians government consisted of lots of celebrations and more. The king was the main idea of the government, the king could do whatever they wanted. On page 12 it said "At great state occasions like royal jubilee celebrations or the giving of gifts to favored courtiers, the king and court gathered together, and top officials, diplomats, and high priests would attend." (HART 12)
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Indus River Valley
Location: On the website it said "Around 5,000 years ago, a civilization developed along the Indus River alluvial plain (floodplain), in South Asia, due to the large amount of fertile land and proximity to a water source." I know because it talks about how Indus River Valley covers a lot of Pakistan, some of India and a little but of Afghanistan. The website showed that "In the 1920s, under layers of land and mounds of dirt, archaeologists discovered the remains of 4,000 year old cities, which existed at the same time as the Egyptians and Mesopotamians." (https://sites.google.com/mccsc.k12.in.us/history-of-south-asia/home/3300-bc-1500-bc-indus-river-valley-civilization/location)
Writing: The website showed "One of the most confusing aspects of this ancient civilization is that the writing cannot be deciphered." I know because many symbols have been found, that lead to the writing. The website wrote "Some scholars have wondered whether these symbols actually constituted a proper writing system. Whatever the case, the lack of decipherable texts means that we can gain no real insight into many of the details of Indus society as well as little about its government and politics." (https://sites.google.com/mccsc.k12.in.us/history-of-south-asia/home/3300-bc-1500-bc-indus-river-valley-civilization/writing)
Religion: The website showed "Much of what we know about them today also came from sacred writing called the Vedas." I know this because the Vedas is a religious text that is like a holy book for the Hindu's. An example that was shown in the website was " The religion of the ancient Aryans, known as Brahmanism, was polytheistic and heavily influenced the later development of Hinduism. Both religions have much in common and share many rituals." (https://sites.google.com/mccsc.k12.in.us/history-of-south-asia/home/1500-bc-aryans)
Government : The website showed "For example, one Aryan influence on modern-day India was the development of the caste system." I know this because the caste system was a social group where people have no freedom. On the website it showed " A caste is a social group in which people are born and they cannot change. The caste system began because the Aryans had four social classes, which they called varnas. People were divided based on wealth and occupation." (https://coggle.it/diagram/ZtscvsrvLIwlWn33/t/ancient-civilization-background-aerial-view_548832-2395-ns)
Architecture/Technology : On the website it said "
The people within the Indus Valley created well-planned cities. Specifically, the people during this time cared deeply about hygiene, and their cities resembled the importance of this idea." The website showed that the people had very impressive building techniques. The website said "These early cities show remnants of the world's earliest sanitation system. With the cities, people could obtain water from wells. Also, within many homes, some rooms had facilities in which waste water was directed to cover drains and these lined the major streets. This was VERY advanced for the time." (https://sites.google.com/mccsc.k12.in.us/history-of-south-asia/home/3300-bc-1500-bc-indus-river-valley-civilization/architecutretechnology)
Mesopotamia
Government: In the text it says that the Mesopotamians have very precious land. The kings and the people of Mesopotamia look at their land as power. They all loved having tons of land. I know this because in the text it says "Sumerian rulers enjoyed great power and fame and their exploits and deeds were remembered for centuries.
Architecture : In the text it says that the Mesopotamians built some pretty nice things. For a long time lots of famous powerful people built some great architecture. Coming from in the book it says "These were magnificent buildings. Their massive gates were bound in bronze, their walls glazed in bricks, their beams of cedar, and their roofs of other precious woods."
Art: In the text it said mesopotamians were very great at making crafts and different materials, very early in their history. They made potter's wheel, Vessels, and much more. They also made pots from clay. Not only did they made things using machines or ideas that were already invented, but they made their own machines and ideas. In the book it states "By 3000 BCE, metalworkers were mixing tin the copper to produce the tough alloy called bronze. This technique was first delivered in Anatolia, but soon spread to Mesopotamia with the growth in the trade in tin." (Steele 28)
Writing : In the text it said the early people that lived in Mesopotamia didn't need writing. Eventually the people of Mesopotamia needed some form of writing, so the people came up with cuneiform. At first the writing was mostly symbols and pictographs. The writing was made by pressing clay with a stylus, that made a mark forming the symbols. Many people in Mesopotamia used the cuneiform. I know this because in the book it states ''It was used by later Mesopotamian peoples, including the Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians.'' (STEElE 12)
Religion: On page 14 it says that they believed in many gods and goddesses. There were many different ways that the people believed in the different gods and goddesses. I know that because in the text it says "They believed the stars traveling across the night sky were the cows of sin or Nanna, the horned moon God. Enki, the god of water and wisdom, was thought to live in an underground ocean called the Aspu." (STEElE 14)
location: On page six it said that flowing southward through the Middle East were two great rivers. The location of Mesopotamia was in modern-day Iraq as well as parts of Turkey, Iran. In the book it states that "Mesopotamia included cooler mountainous regions in the north and reed-filled wetlands in the southeast." (Steele 6)