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Early civilisationsEarly civilisations

What do we know?

The first civilisations

What are the people in this painting doing?

What other economic activities did people in the first civilisations do?

Mesopotamia

Name three Mesopotamian kingdoms.

Why did Mesopotamian civilisation emerge in this region?

The history of Mesopotamia

What do you know about the Sumerians?

How did Sumerian rule end?

Life and culture in Mesopotamia

Where did Mesopotamian people live?

What activities are the Mesopotamian people in the image doing?

Mesopotamian society

Which social groups appear in each level of the painting?

What do you think life was like for each of these social groups?

Religion

What can you see in the image?

What were the religious beliefs of the Mesopotamians?

Architecture and art

Describe what you see in the image?

What other types of buildings did the Mespotamians build?

Ancient Egypt

Why was the Nile so important for Ancient Egyptians?

What were the differences between Upper and Lower Egypt?

Ancient Egyptian history

What did the Ancient Egyptians use pyramids for?

In which period of Ancient Egyptian history were the Giza pyramids built?

Ancient Egyptian history

In which period of Ancient Egyptian history did Ramesses III rule?

What were the characteristics of this period?

Life and culture in Ancient Egypt

What activities are the people in the image doing?

Which different social groups can you see in the image?

Women in Ancient Egypt

What rights did Ancient Egyptian women have?

Which social group do you think the women in the image belonged to?

Architecture and art

Which parts of the temple can you see in this image?

What was the function of each of these parts?

What have we learned?

The birth of the firstcivilisations

The birth of the firstcivilisations

The first cities and two great civilisations emerged: Egypt and Mesopotamia

The institutions of government and public administration appeared

Mesopotamia

It developed beside the rivers Tigris and Euphrates

Formed by the regions of: Assyria, Akkad, Sumer

Society: the king, and his family, the ruling caste, other free people and slaves

They were polytheists and believed in life after death

They built palaces, temples and ziggurats with adobe

What have we learned?

EgyptEgyptSociety: the pharaoh (god and king at the same time), the ruling caste, other free people and slaves

They were polytheists and believed in life after death

They constructed temples and tombs (mastabas, pyramids and hypogea)

They worked in agriculture, livestock, craftwork and trade

History: the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, the New Kingdom and the Late Period

It grew up beside the River Nile