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Essential UNIT Question: How did the ancient world contribute to the development of
civilization?
Social Studies StandardsCase study of an early people of the Middle East (Sumer, Egypt, or Mesopotamia): 3.1 a, 3.1 c, 3.1 d
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Focus Question # 22:What were the contributions of the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt? (Part 3)
Egyptians Leave Their Mark:The Egyptian pyramids were great monuments of
stone, built at the direction of the pharaoh;Pyramids prepared the pharaoh’s passage to the
afterlife;The Great pyramid of Pharaoh Khufu (KOO-Foo),
built in 2,600 BCE, brought honor to many Egyptians;
The pyramid walls contained inscriptions of the achievements of the pharaoh;
There was also a dark side to the legacy of the pyramids: Many people were enslaved and forced to work as laborers on the pyramid’s construction.
Khufu’s Monument of Life & Death
A Written LegacyEarly Egyptians scribes documented official
court records (schedules, contracts, funeral rites, medical and religious writings, etc.) and left behind a body of literature by using a system of writing called hieroglyphs or sacred carvings: “hiero” means holy (Greek) and glyph (Greek) means to carve or shape by hand;
Scribes practiced hieroglyphic writing on sheets of papyrus, which is a reed-like plant that grew in the Delta. It is the source of the word “paper.”
Making Papyrus
ContinuedJean Chompollion, a Frenchman, was the first
Western scholar to learn how to interpret/read Egyptian hieroglyphics, by cracking the code of the Rosetta Stone;
Through the Rosetta Stone, Chompollion (Shahm-pohl-YON), learned about the Egyptian economy.
Economics is the study of how one country uses its resources and coverts them into goods and services, which creates wealth for its people.
For ex. Papyrus (resource) Paper (goods) Scribes (services).
Rosetta Stone
Top portion was written in Egyptian hieroglyphics.
The middle portion was written in modern “demotic” Egyptian.
The bottom portion was written in Ancient Greek.
Jean Champollion (top left) used Greek and demotic text as the basis through which he learned to read Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Preparations for Afterlife:
Sarcophagus & Canopic Jars
Sarcophagus = Coffin Priests placed vital organs in jars
Tomb Raiders:
Stepped Pyramid:
Menes “The Pharaoh of Unity”
The Double Crown of Egypt
Crown of Upper Egypt (White); Crown of Lower Egypt (Red) United Crown of Egypt
Lower and Upper Egypt:
Silt deposits = Rich soil
Silt helps nourish soilSilt scooped out of the Nile
Egyptian Irrigation
Canals The Shadoof
The Nilometer
Egyptian Cloth
Flax was used for clothing Egyptian weavers
The Flooding of the Nile River
Egyptian Transportation
Egyptian Domestication
The Nile and Its Delta
The Delta
Activity:
Homework # 31:See HW tab (Website)
Today’s Middle Easthttp://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/cou
ntrys/me.htm
Today I Learned . . .