egypt

Ancient Egypt

Geography:

Ancient Egyptians thought of Egypt as being divided in to two different places. The black land and the red land. In the black land you could grow crops. The land was very fertile. The red land was a dessert like area. It was very dry and hot. It protected Egypt on each side Egypt's climate is hot and dry like a dessert. Egypt had many buildings and structures due to their natural resources. They have decorative stone, copper, and lead ores, gold, and semiprecious stones. It made buildings and making of jewelry possible for them to do with those natural resources.  

Government:

Religion and government are very important or inseparable in Ancient Egypt. The Pharaoh was the head of state and the divine representation of the gods on earth. The pharaoh was at the top of the social hierarchy. 

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 the levels of class 

Laws:

Ancient Egyptians used common sense to make their legal system. The Egyptians goddess Ma'at was the goddess of justice basically, the law followed the teachings of Ma'at according to the priest, about what was right and wrong. No remains have been located of written laws.  

Achievements/social class: 

Ancient Egyptians had many achievements such as unification's, pyramids, hieroglyphics, and calendars. In ancient Egypt they did have their own form of slavery such as forced labor. That is slavery. Usually if your mom was a forced worker or slave then you would be also. 

 

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Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia

Geography

 Mesopotamia means 'between two rivers' in Greek. The two rivers are referring to Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Mesopotamia is marshy flat wide areas. Cities along the rivers. Settlers had to irrigate their land along the rivers. Settlers had to irrigate their land along the river to their crops. Mesopotamia has a warm climate with enough rain to grow their crops. The land is quite fertile due to seasonal rains. Early settlers used the land and timber, stone, and metals found on the mountain. 

Government and laws

They believed in their own gods. Their religion was polytheistic. Mesopotamia was ruled by kings. The kings only ruled one city. Not a whole empire. For an example King Hammurabi was the king of Babylon.

List of kings:

Ur-Nammu- King of Ur

Sargon of Akkad- Established Akkadian

Hammurabi- King of Babylon

Ashur-uballit II- Established Assyrian Empire

Tiglath-Pileser I- Established Assyrian Empire

Society

The Mesopotamian's had many rights toward women such as having equal rights,filing for divorce, and could own their own land. Women and Men both worked jobs. They had three different classes: nobility, slaves, and free citizens. Priests and kings were nobility. Modern people were the free citizens. Slaves were the slaves. They worked but were allowed to get married if they wished to. 
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Achievements

The Mesopotamian had some achievements they built cities along the rivers. They had advanced technology's like the wheel, plow, and their writing system. Farmers in the summer would create levees o hold back floods to protect their fields and cut canals to channel river to the fields.
  

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Ice Man

• He had 2 meals before he died
• meat from ibex and red deer with grain
• wearing shoes and goatskin made coat and goat skin leggings with a bear fur cape tied on with leather straps 
• 61 tattoos
• was about 5'2 when he died but shrunk over the past 5,300 years
• 110 pounds when he died 
• his mummified body is around 29 pounds
• was 45 years old
• probably had brown eyes
• he died around 3000 B.C.
• 3 faces of what he looked like
• he has a "curse" people have died that have associated with him 

Summary

Helmut and his wife were hiking when something caught Helmut's eye. He made the conclusion it was trash left behind. When he got a closer look it was a human body. Covered with ice that had started to melt. They were not sure if they were gonna report the body due to all the police questions they would get and ruin their vacation. They stopped for drinks at a near by lodge and that's when they decided to report the body to a worker. The police freed the body with doing that did make a few mistakes.

The Ice Man died around 3000 B.C. They say that he was injured during a battle or a fall before he froze to death. Some theories say he was accidentally shot due to the arrow they found in his shoulder. Others say he was being robbed for the items he had with him. His hand was injured so they say he could have fallen on his knife.

When he died he wasn't in the best health. He showed many signs of stress in the months before he died. His lungs were showing results from being around smoke from fires. He had a very small case of Lyme disease. He had very bad tooth decay and gum disease. So he was not in the nest health he could have been in.

Many people say the Ice Man has a curse. People that have had things to do with him have been killed and in bad accidents. One man helped put the body in a body bag the day of the finding a year later he was on the way to have a meeting about it and was in a bad car accident and was killed. One man made a documentary about the Ice Man and not long after died from a brain tumor.



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