The_History_of_The_Mesopotamia汇.pptx

Before we begin!!!!!;Ancient River Valley Civs;ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA;Geography;In what modern day country was the Fertile Crescent? Iraq;Ur, the capital city of Mesopotamia;Social;More cuneiform writing;More ziggurats;Hanging gardens of Babylonia;;Another painting of the hanging gardens with Tower of Babel in back;Economic: trade and farming;Sumerians invented the wheel!;Political:Mesopotamian Law;Cities were centers on political order and power, and religious worship. Farming – flood – irrigation灌溉, canals运河, dikes堤 Writing – by priest Pictograms 象形文字 Cuneiform 楔形文字 Phonetics 语言 Kings and wars – 2370 B.C. King Sargon of Akkadians united the kingdoms formed the 1st empire Knowledge in algebra – decimal base of 10, 60 sexagesimal, 360 degree circle ;That concludes Mesopotamia.;ANCIENT EGYPT;Egyptian civilization;Pyramids;Political:Egyptian Pharaohs;Abu Simbel was built by Ramseses II ;Mummies;;Egyptians wrote in hieroglyphics象形文字;What did Egyptians write on?;The Great Sphinx is located on the Giza plateau, about six miles west of Cairo.;Nubia努比亚;The Egyptians called them the Kush. The Kush was comparable with Egypt, and both states communicated with each other constantly. Today we do not hear of Nubia nor Kush. In its place is nothern Sudan. With the construction of the Aswan high dam in the 1960s, Nubian land was flooded and that forced some 100,000 Nubians to seek new homes in Egyptian and Sudanese cities. Nubias glorious past is now under water.;Egyptian economy;That concludes Egypt.; ;G:What modern day countries was the Indus Valley civ in?;Indus River Valley;Indus River civilization;Various artifacts found;What are artifacts?;Indus Economy;That concludes Indus River Valley Civilization.;Indus River Quiz;ANCIENT CHINA;As in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and along the Indus River, Chinese civilization began within a major river valley. Modern China itself is a huge geographical expanse. Around 4000 BC, this huge area contained an almost infinite number of ethnic groups an