'Outline Howard Spodek\r'

'The creation of opus in Egypt was very close to the creation of paper in Mesopotamia †may have acquire it from Egypt highly-developed their own script †Hieroglyphs (Sacred carvings) Wrote of stone tablets, limestone flakes, pottery, and papyrus use of business and administration Unification and the Rule of Kings The queen regnant lists, records the noses of Upper Egypt Didnt care about race or ethni city Color of their skin reflected gender Females †workers at national were painted a lighter color Males -? workers extraneous were painted a darker color Menses or Manners were known as the same person Menses” symbolized unification Kings became very powerful (Gods) With more than(prenominal) kings this bring ond more tombs and uneven distri neverthelession of wealth previous(predicate) civilization included national religious political orientation The Gods, the Unification of Egypt, and the Afterlife Souris repre displaceed order and virtue, but his b rother band represented disorder and brutal Seth put Souris in a concussion and sent him down the Nile Isis got the box and saved him Seth got Souris again and cut him into 14 pieces and sent them dont the river Isis got them all told and put them back together and saved himSouris conceived a son, Hours Hours defeated Seth in a competitiveness Hours was often depicted as a hunt down on top of the kings Afterlife inspired dry gangrene Afterlife was seen as a place for authoritative people Cities of the Dead Things such as shrines, burial sites were well-nigh prominent in Egyptian stopping point Tombs in Abodes were called â€Å"Maestros” Kings Were conceal with furniture, food, weapons, anything they needed for the afterlife Tombs well(p) 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 lower-ranking ego generated communities Economies are based o ff of cereal crops Selected cities were put strategically and eventually grew in to full-fledged cities ecesis head quarters had given a grand boost to the communities they were in 2 cemeteries served 1 city; 1 for common people and 1 for more wealth people Irrigation saved agriculture and helped in severe drought Shaded Irrigation is when buckets bring water supply from a river to man made irrigation chance Nell Fewer water problems then Mesopotamia Cities supposedly flourished from its temple communityIrrigation + Administration + Worship-? metropolis The Nile Valley provided an adequate natural shield Thebes is the most monumental site The Nile Delta connected Egypt to the outside population Ports were drop off points for trade being sent on donkey of on a small little boat Monumental Architecture of the overaged terra firma: Pyramids and Fortresses Increasing power created more monumental architecture The administrative organization and economic productivity contain due to increase until the end of the Dynasty. Egypt elegant genius continued to develop the sculpture of its tombs. Architects know the beauty of filling in the Steps Of the pyramids to create a triangular form. Tombs of the queens are situated within proximity of the kings.Tomb robbing were quite frequent. Architectural, spiritual, political and array accomplishments date to the millennium we now call azoic Dynastic. The Disintegration of the Old Kingdom Monarchs collected and unploughed taxes for themselves. The Nile did not reach optimal flood senior high and affected agriculture. The Rise and the Fall of the Middle Kingdom King Menthol of Thebes defeated his rivals in the north and reunited the mining. conduct was revived. Fine arts and literature flourished Started to have invasions of the meat hooks 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 parvenu monotheistic religion. Senate made a city where he, his wife and their six daughters practiced the new religion. The eccentricity of the ruler was reflected in the cities sculptures, architecture, and painting. His isolated position menace 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 free-base thousands of old bricks. They also 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 can make educated guesses about the influence and meaning Of remaining artifacts and physical structures. Arts and Crafts include pottery, dying, metalworking, and beading. Small sculptures are in stone, or terra cotta. like is the first known use for a fibre in weaving textiles. Carefully Planned Cities The 2 largest settlements ar e Harp and Enjoy-dark were very similar. Each city held about 40,000 people. The town plan was orderly and continual (even baskets were all uniform in size and shape. ) The mode Of plans suggests a very organized government and bureaucratic capacity. Excavations at Dollars revealed immense gates at the mind entrances of the city.Legacies of the Harpoon Civilization Most records involve literary and artistic forms. New ecology is based on rice cultivation and the use of iron. The Aryan groups grew complete 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 unified about 3,000 B. C. E. They organize the core of an Imperial state. We learn the significance of archaeologic and textual study is unearthing. Records can show alliances amid rulers and priests. Without text we have no record of religious, philosophical, legal, or administrative systems in the Indus valley.\r\n'