Veto q&a 7 Month22 (1)

@brain mapping
2018
April
• Egyptians practiced the use of some slaves, but
slavery is not mentioned in their writings
• Most people lived in mud-brick homes
• Women raised the children and men usually made
an income for the family
• Bread was the main food source, but they would
have eaten meat during festivals
• They had a burial building called mastaba during
ancient time
• A Mastaba had a flat roof, similar to the base of a
pyramid without a top
• The building of a Mastaba later led to the building
of pyramids
• The well known pyramids during the Old Kingdom
at Giza and the Sphinx were built for Pharaoh Khufu
• The great pyramid was built by King Khufu
• The eleventh dynasty ruled from a new capital city
called thebes
• Pharaoh Akhenaten tried to start a new religious
tradition of worshipping only one God.
• Worshipping one God is called monotheism
• During the 19th and 20th dynasty of the New
Kingdom many of the Pharaohs were named as
Ramsses.
• Ramsses II was probably the greatest Pharaohs in
Egyptian history
• He is known as Ramsses the Great
• Attacks from nearby civilizations especially Persia,
Greece, and Roman took control of Egypt away from
Egyptians.
• Roman control of Egypt was the beginning of the
end of Ancient Egyptian culture
• Rome controlled Egypt for several centuries until
Arab Muslims from the Middle East (Southwest
Asia) took control.
• They discouraged the old Egyptian culture and many
Egyptians converted to Islam.
Hatshepsut (1492-1479Bc)
• Hatshepsut was a women Pharaoh.
• She is known as the first woman ruler of the world
mesopotamian civilization
(Bc 5000-4000)
• Her tomb is an amazingly long ramp leading to
a temple that has been cut out of a
mountain
• The Mesopotamian civilization comprises the
Sumerian, Babylonian and assyrian cultures
• This civilization flourished in a region between two
rivers, i.e, euphrates and tigris
• The word Mesopotamia means ‘ the Land between
Rivers”
• The Garden of Eden mentioned in the Old Testament
of the Bible was believed to have been situated within
this region
• The region known as the cradle of Civilization –
Mesopotamia
the amorites :
The Amorites were
an ancient Semiticspeaking
people
from Syria who also
occupied large parts
of southern Mesopotamia. They started the
Babylonian Empire
Political life
• The word Sumerian means black- headed.
• They settled in the southern part of Mesopotamia
near the Persian Gulf
• Sumer was their chief city state, so they were called
Sumerians
• Their kingdom was conquered by the Semitic king
of Akkad, Saragon I.
• Babylon was made the capital of Amorite
• Amorites were called Babylonians and their powerful
king was Hammurabi
• His reign is described as the
golden age of Mesopotamia
• Later, Assyrians conquered
Mesopotamia. They were cruel
and believed in terror activities.
• The chief centres of Assyrian
power were Assur and Nineveh
Q&A Bonus
child marriage Prohibition act came into force in - 1872
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