Post on 04-Jan-2016
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A visual review of WH 1
Sumerian ziggurat - temple made of brick
The Fertile Crescent - shown in yellow
2 major rivers - Tigris & Euphrates
Greece’s location
Greece’s Location, location, location
• Good for trade• On a peninsula• between Mediterranean Sea & • Aegean Sea• easy sailing distance to Egypt &
Fertile Crescent
Rival Greek city-states - Athens & Sparta
Greek Architecture•2 major Greek contributions
•Parthenon
•3 types of columns
The Parthenon - temple to Athena
The Parthenon - temple to Athena
The Parthenon - temple to Athena
3 types of Greek columns
•Doric - simple
•Ionian - fancier
•Corinthian - fanciest
•see pictures
Doric - simple
Ionian - fancier
Corinthian - fanciest
•these columns have been copied for centuries by builders
Rome’s Empire at its largest
Emperor Hadrian’s Wall across Great Britain marked the northern boundary of the Roman Empire
ROMAN architecture•Pantheon - in Rome, temple to all of the Roman gods, concrete dome
Pantheon - to all of the Roman gods
Rome’s Colosseum
• A stadium for gladitorial fights/ entertainment
Rome’s Colosseum
The Forum in Rome – a place “for-um” to shop
The Forum in Rome
•a large public area/market
•similar to Greece’s agora
• features of Roman architecture have been reproduced in Western buildings
•arch
•dome
•concrete
Rome’s roads - for moving people & stuff
A Roman aqueduct - for moving water
Another aqueduct, in Fr., built by Romans in 49 BC
aqueducts•to move water from where it is to where it was needed
Hagia Sophia - Church
minarets were added later by Muslims
Hagia Sophia• largest Christian church of its
time
• built in Constantinople (city is now known as Istanbul)
• notice the rectangular room with a round dome
A Russian church -
notice the onion-shaped domes with crosses
Russian church - onion-shaped domes with crosses
A mosque in Hampton - notice the crescent moon atop the dome, NOT a cross
Mosque in Mecca with minarets(towers)
Kaaba in center
Kaaba in Mecca - destination for Muslim pilgrims
Mosque in Mecca - see the minarets
The Great Wall - WAS the border, isn’t a border any more
Notice the Silk Road, the red line pointing the way to the west
Note location of China’s Huang River - Huang has a hump
India began along the Indus River
the Indus and Ganges 2 very important rivers for India
The Taj Mahal - towers show influence of the religion of Islam on architecture in India after 600 AD
Egypt’s pyramids - tombs for pharaohs(kings)
Egypt’s location along the Nile - in yellow
Ancient African History by the SOL• African civilizations developed at Kush
in East Africa and Ghana in West Africa.• Kush and Ghana concentrated on trade
with different partners.• Both economies focused on trade
throughout Africa and the Middle East.• Kush traded primarily with Egypt.• Ghana’s economy was based on the
exchange of gold for salt.
Kingdom of Kush• yellow
• along the Nile River in what is now Sudan.
Ghana• In west
Africa
• Economy based on gold for salt
• trade across the Sahara region
2 African Civilizations• Kush in East Africa
• Ghana in West Africa
• major similarity - both relied on trade
• major difference - different trading partners
Niger River
Ghana, Mali, Songhai
Zimbabwe
AxumKush
Egyptian hieroglyphs - (pictograms)pictures representing words
The Rosetta Stone – provided a way to read and understand Egyptian Hieroglyphics
Bird tracks on wet sand? No
Cuneiform
Sumerian writing
Sanskrit – writing from Ancient India
The Phoenicians were the first to develop an alphabet•ABCDEFGHIJKLOMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
•Ours is the Roman alphabet
Zambezi River
Limpopo River
Great Zimbabwe
Greece
Rome
Black Sea
Baltic Sea
Andes Mountains
South & East Asia
Himalayas
Hindu KushMountains
India
KoreaChina
Japan
Sea of Japan