Yesterday in class we continued to take notes from the textbook on early river valley civilizations. We also talked about good note taking skills and how you should write down anything in bullets, different font, different color, and anything bold. We took notes on the geography of the fertile crescent, as well as environmental changes and challenges, solving problems through organization, Sumerians creating city states, who controls the government, police and rulers sharing control, the spread of cities, and summering culture.
Today in class we reviewed for our test on Egypt: Upper Egypt- 500 mile long strip of fertile land along the nile (mountain area) Lower Egypt- Wide land of the nile delta (sea level) In 3100 BC Narmer united Egypt Pharaoh is king and god- all powerful Egyptians relied on harmony and balance of the universe which they call "maat" gods were portrayed with animal heads or bodies people in Egypt believed in after life called ka they preserved bodies with mummification Earliest Egyptian writing formed in 3100 bc and were small pictures known as hieroglyphics papyrus- paper Papyrus was stored in scrolls and were books of ancient Egypt Jean François Champollion discovered hieroglyphics Egyptian astronomers created a calendar with 12 months and 365 days to make better sense of the seasonal cycles wooden sailboats were constructed to increase transportation ability on the nile- technological breakthrough British archaeologist who discovered tutankhamon's tom in ...
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