Outline Howard Spodek

The creation of writing in Egypt was actu eachy close to the creation of writing in Mesopotamia may shake off well-read it from Egypt Developed their own script Hieroglyphs (Sacred carvings) Wrote of orchestra pit tablets, limestone flakes, pottery, and papyrus Used of crease and administration Unification and the Rule of Kings The king lists, records the noses of Upper Egypt Didnt care just about race or ethnicity Color of their skin reflected gender Females workers at rest home were painted a lighter color Males -? workers outside were painted a darker color Menses or Manners were known as the alike(p) person Menses symbolized unification Kings became very powerful (Gods) With more kings this created more tombs and uneven distri preciselyion of wealth Early civilization included internal religious ideology The Gods, the Unification of Egypt, and the Afterlife Souris represented order and virtue, but his brother Seth represented disorder and evil Seth say Souris in a b ox and sent him down the Nile Isis got the box and rescue him Seth got Souris again and cut him into 14 pieces and sent them dont the river Isis got them all and order them back together and saved himSouris conceived a son, Hours Hours defeated Seth in a battle Hours was often depicted as a hunt down on top of the kings Afterlife inspired mummification Afterlife was seen as a place for important hatful Cities of the Dead Things such as shrines, burial sites were most prominent in Egyptian culture Tombs in Abodes were called Maestros Kings Were buried with furniture, food, weapons, anything they needed for the afterlife Tombs near Square had copper objects and stone vessels Women of Elite families were buried in pyramids, such as Misshapenness 2 The Growth of Cities No existing city-states, had teeny-weeny self generated communities Economies are establish off of cereal crops Selected cities were spaced strategically and eventually grew in to full-fledged cities politics head q uarters had given a big encouragement to the communities they were in 2 cemeteries served 1 city 1 for common bulk and 1 for more wealth people Irrigation saved agriculture and helped in severe drought Shaded Irrigation is when buckets bring water from a river to man do irrigation chance Nell Fewer water problems then Mesopotamia Cities supposedly flourished from its temple communityIrrigation + Administration + Worship-? City The Nile vale provided an adequate natural shield Thebes is the most monolithic site The Nile Delta connected Egypt to the outside world Ports were drop off points for foxiness being sent on donkey of on a small little boat Monumental Architecture of the Old Kingdom Pyramids and Fortresses increase power created more monumental architecture The administrative organization and sparing productivity contain due to increase until the end of the Dynasty. Egypt artistic encephalon continued to develop the sculpture of its tombs. Architects realized the beauty o f filling in the Steps Of the pyramids to create a triangular form. Tombs of the queens are situate within proximity of the kings.Tomb robbing were quite frequent. Architectural, spiritual, political and military accomplishments date to the millenary we now call Early Dynastic. The Disintegration of the Old Kingdom Monarchs dispassionate and kept taxes for themselves. The Nile did not reach optimal flood heights and unnatural agriculture. The Rise and the Fall of the Middle Kingdom King Menthol of Thebes defeated his rivals in the north and reunited the mining. Trade was revived. Fine arts and literature flourished Started to have invasions of the maulers Kathleen, Capital City of King Kathleen Modern excavations at Marin unearthed the ruins of an ancient Egyptian capital.King Annotate challenged the order of Egypt by adopting a new monotheistic religion. Senate confine a city where he, his wife and their six daughters practiced the new religion. The eccentricity of the rule wa s reflected in the cities sculptures, architecture, and painting. His isolated position threatened the stability of Egypt empire. The Roots of the Indus Valley Civilization In 1 856 British rulers were supervising construction of a railway and as they were working on it they found thousands of old bricks. They besides found stones with artistic designs on them. Many scholars assumed that the Indus valley people learned the art of City buildings from the Sumerians and other people in Mesopotamia.We corporation make educated guesses about the function and meaning Of remaining artifacts and physiological structures. Arts and Crafts Included pottery, dying, metalworking, and beading. Small sculptures are in stone, or terra cotta. like is the first known use for a fiber in weave textiles. Carefully Planned Cities The two largest settlements are Harp and Enjoy-dark were very similar. separately city held about 40,000 people. The town plan was orderly and regular (even baskets were al l uniform in size and shape. ) The regularity Of plans suggests a very make government and bureaucratic capacity. Excavations at Dollars revealed immense gates at the jumper lead entrances of the city.Legacies of the Harpoon Civilization Most records involve literary and artistic forms. raw(a) ecology is based on rice cultivation and the use of iron. The Indo-European groups grew skilled and powerful as they move East. The Cities of the Nile and the Indus, What difference do they make? Along the Nile, they are part of a single state that is interconnected about 3,000 B. C. E. They formed the core of an Imperial state. We learn the significance of archeological and textual study is unearthing. Records can show alliances between rulers and priests. Without text we have no record of religious, philosophical, legal, or administrative systems in the Indus valley.