Along the River Nile

I am passing from the River Nile with my sailing boat. The only thing I can see and pay attention is the beauty of Nile. The nature is just amazing. It smells grass and tress. I see a crocodile pop out from the sea. For a second I think it's my end. But than I see that they are just looking around. The River is really nice and the sun is on top of me. I feel my head and skin burning. I look to my right and I see a huge pyramid with a lot of servants working.I need some water. I feel the weather getting hotter and hotter every minute. At last I'm out of Nile. I hope I can go again.

Homework(Mummies)

You should:
List at least five questions that you would ask a promising location. Your questions should relate to climate, culture, religion, and other factors that you think are important. Include Images. You do not have to answer your questions.

1.Why do Egyptian mummify their dead?

2.Who were the king mummies?

3.Where are the mummies?

4.Why did Egyptians make mummies?

5.Are mummies still being mummified today?


Pictures:

New words from the Article

New Words
1.Yearn: To have a strong desire
2.Cadaver:A dead body, especially one intended for dissection.
3.Mossy:Covered with moss or something like moss
4.Bogs:An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate.
5.Mingled:To mix or bring together in combination


Questions
1.DEFINE the word "MUMMY"?
A body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial. Also an Ancient Egypt person.


2.According to current scientific beliefs. What are some reasons people were intentionally mummified?

The reasons why people were intentionally mummified was because they were trying to extend human life and some bodies were frozen for the climate.

3. What features of the natural environment can cause bodies to be mummified unintentionally?
Some reasons why bodies are unintentionally mummified is that the climate is very cold which is a good weather to mummify. Another good place the be mummified is places were there is snow or ice.


4. In what parts of the world have mummies been found?
Mummies were found in Egypt, China,Siberia, Italy Greenland and Mexico.


5.In what types of places( physical geography&climate) have mummies been found?
The types of physical geography that mummies have been found in includes mostly places that have good environments for preservation,for example cold places.


6. How did Ancient Egyptians preserve their dead?
Egyptians preserves their dead because they believed in the after life and in order to got there they needed there body.


7. Why do you think Ancient Egyptians took such care to embalm their dead if the desert could do the job for them?
Ancient Egyptians didn't want their work done by others because they thought they should have their own jobs done.Many cultures have this belief that when you preserve a dead body you give that person peace to his soul. They also put their organs in to kind of little jars.

Assyrian Poster

This poster is about the Assyrians. Their government, empire, facts, daily life and also includes a map, timeline and a lot of pictures. Everyone in our group worked really well together and brought a lot of information.

By: Ergi,Brin,Emily and Luka L.

Unit #3 Reflection Mesopotamia

1. In 2-3 sentences for each topic, summarize what you learned about the following:
    a) The domestication of plants and animals   
    b) The transition from hunter-gatherer communities to the first civilizations
    c) Early religion and beliefs

2. Imagine someone saying to you, "Learning about the Sumerians isn't very
    important since they're long gone!" What would you tell them in order to change their mind?

3. Include at least 2 visuals in your post (photograph, drawing, map, table/chart...)

1.

A) What I learned about domestication of plants and animals is that people in the past made the plants and animals domesticated so they could eat them.I learned that they domesticated for a lot of reasons like to produce food, or valuable stuff like cotton,wool or silk, for helping them in transportation and trade. They also grew a lot of different crops.

B)Almost the whole of human history, from at least 3 million years ago, mankind has lived hunting or fishing, and gathering edible items of any kind for example;from fruit to insects.But basically hunter-gatherers,have lived by doing what comes natural. I learned that they improved a lot of things, like language,writing system and the calendar. 

C)The things I learned about religion and beliefs is that when they started to improve their religion they started practices and also started praying. They believed in god so much and were scared what would happen if they did a bad thing. They thought the god would strike and punish them.

2.If somebody told me that "Learning about the Sumerians isn't very important since they're long gone."
I would tell them to learn about this because that is how we are now in this day, how they developed since now and how they changed living,religion and also their beliefs.




PICTURES

Enheduana of Sumer

Enheduana was the worlds first author almost 4,300 years ago. She was also known as a poet.   her works weren't published as paperback.  they were slabs of clay, which was still soft, and a stylus was used to write into it.As Enheduana and her brother grew older, her father expected her brothers to be kings and be the empirere.


Questions:
1..What did books look like during the time that Enheduana was writing? How were these books written?
She wrote books but using wet clay and a object called styblus.


2. Where did Enheduana and her family live? What did her father do?
Her father was the king and they lived in city-state of Akkad.

3. What was Enheduana's job? List three of her duties. How did she lose her job?

Her job was high prisetess.and She lost her job after her nephew took the throne

4.The author says that Enheduana's poems were so popular that they were like bestsellers today. What evidence does she use to support this claim?

Telling us that people still talk about her today even though she wrote in 2300 B.c.

5. Enheduana's writings are hymns of praise, but they also tell us about the times she lived in. Describe one "current event" that Enheduana wrote about.

Enheduana wrote about about her father. She wrote that at one point in time the city-states that Sargon had taken united in revolt against and also that they tried to capture Akkad.

Catalhoyuk

Catalhoyuk is the largest and best preserved Neolithic site found to date. The meaning of Catal is fork on the Turkish language .was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5700 BC.Catalhoyuk is located overlooking wheat fields in the Konya. Konya is a city near to the captial of Turkey, Ankara. It's approximately 140 kilometers, which is equal to 87 miles. The entire settlement of Catalhoyuk was composed of domestic buildings. The site has no obvious public buildings. While some of the larger buildings contain rather ornate wall murals, the purpose of such rooms remains unclear. It also has something on top of it that helps it protect from to sun, like a shield, but the sides of it are open.Since 1993 an international team of archaeologists, led by Ian Hodder, has been carrying out new excavations and research, in order to shed more light on the people that inhabited the site.The Neolithic site of Catalhoyuk was first discovered in the late 1950s and excavated by James Mellaart between 1961 and 1965. The site rapidly became famous internationally due to the large size and dense occupation of the settlement, as well as the spectacular wall paintin gs and other art that was uncovered inside the houses.