Ancient World History

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World History Fall Final

Ancient History to

the American Revolution

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Prehistoric means before ?

Writing

Then how do we know about prehistoric people and what they did?

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In the Old Stone Age they hadn’t figured out how to raise their own crops, so they were known as ?

NOMADS

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Everyone starts to specialize their labor

So they start the barter economy

Set up new laws to deal with people

And warfare starts between the settlements.

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Why do ancient civilizations settle near the river valleys?

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King Menes has a powerful family

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Ancient Religions

VS.

HEBREWS

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Slide 9

Which religion believes in reincarnation?

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Olmecs in the Americas

Around 6,000 BC the first cultures began to emerge. The first were the Olmecs which began around 1500 BC and died out around 200 AD. They were known for the Olmec heads. 16 of them are at the Museum of Anthropology in Xalpa.

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Cuneiform writing – reeds pressed into clay

Babylonian – Way pickin’ old

2300- 800 BC

Hieroglyphics – organized writing mostly Egyptian

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Phoenicians were good traders

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Hatshepsut- Egyptian queen 1503-1482BC

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Mesopotamia

Means the land between the rivers

Which rivers?

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The Afterlife !!!!

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Match the vocabulary

Bureaucracy

Shogun

Missionaries

Calligraphy

aborigines