Ancient Cultures

Section 2

Riddles of the Day

• What gets wet when drying?

• Why didn’t the orange make it across the road

Israel

• Believe in One God – Yahweh-• Captive in Egypt, later Babylonia

• Famous Leaders –Abraham, Moses, David, and Solomon

• Known as Jews today, live in modern Israel

Exodus

• The Israelites were defeated and made slaves by Egypt.

• Yahweh sent 10 plagues to free his people: Moses then led them across the Red Sea to safety

Babylon

• Known as the Babylonians: 1894 BC – 529

• Ruled over modern Iraq

• Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar were famous kings

• (We already learned about Hammurabi)

Nebuchadnezzar

• Found in the Bible in the book of Daniel– Daniel interprets dreams for him and is

his advisor

– Read the passage silently

Babylon

• Their capital was Babylon• http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW9X3P0lbZk

Persia*

Empire from 550 – 330 BC

Founded by Cyrus the Great

Defeated by Alexander the Great of Greecehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFXfMfE43jI

Persia*

• A vast and wealthy empire• It ruled more of the world than any

kingdom before them

• Persepolis was the capital

Today it is the country of Iraq

All things Persian*

• Persians gave us plenty of firsts:– Spinach– Tame chicken– Postal system– Tax system– Wine– Windmill– Stapler– Ice Cream– Backgammon– Cookies

Persian DOminance

• Read the article on King XerxesI

First Exam

• Exam on all material since the beginning of school

• Friday September, 13th

• We will be studying tomorrow with a study guide

Economics

• Has to deal with money• Trade, currency, money policy,

economy

• When you hear anything about money policy in a nation, it has to deal with economics

Social

• Social has to deal with people

• Examples of social issues are rights, gender, race

• Nations deal with social issues all the time

Political

• Political issues deal with politics

• Examples are politics, voting, parties, legislation

Graphic organizer

• Create a Venn diagram on:

• Political, Social, and economic issues– Compare contrast/3 examples for each

Sources

• Primary: Source written by a person who has a first hand account of a happening

• Secondary: Person who rights about a happening after the fact

• Lets take some examples:

Sources

• A newspaper in 1884 writes about a Gold Rush happening that day

• You write a book about Hammurabi

• You read a letter of a WWII soldier about his experience in DDay