? starter activity

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? starter activity
What do you know about life in ancient times? Use
your own knowledge and information from sources
2-4 on p.14-15 to answer questions 1-4
2
How sophisticated was Ancient Egyptian medicine?
? Aims

• To understand how features of Egyptian life
  affected medicine
• To find out who treated the sick and the cures
  they used
• To evaluate whether there was greater change or
  continuity in Egyptian medicine

3
? Your task

• Read p.16-17 and create a spider diagram on how
  Egyptian life affected Egyptian medicine. Your
  diagram should include the following categories
• Wealth
• Trade
• Improved writing
• Religion
• Nile farming

4
Wealth

• International trade
• Fertile farmlands due to River Nile
• Rich employed specialist doctors employed, e.g.
  pharaohs physican
• Specialist craftsmen able to produce medical
  instruments

5
Trade

• International commercial links
• Ideas on new medicines, e.g. herbal remedies

Egyptian traders
6
Writing

• Papyrus
• Treatments and remedies could be passed down or
  among doctors

7
Religions

• Belief in afterlife led to new discoveries
  through embalming
• Body parts removed preserved

8
Nile farming

• Comparisons made between life-giving properties
  of Nile channels inside body, e.g. veins
  arteries

9
? Your task

• Study the sources on p.18. Discuss these
  questions with our neighbour
• Who treated the sick in Egyptian times?
• Is there any evidence doctors were specialists?
• Is there any evidence that women acted as
  healers? If they did, why is there so little
  evidence?

10
? Your task

• Read the information on p.18-21 and complete a
  chart similar to the one below

People who treated the sick Knowledge of the body Causes of disease Cures and treatments
(Complete this once you have done the source task on p.20-21)
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? Extension task

• Choose one of the Ancient Egyptian cures
  mentioned on p.20-21 and write a short radio or
  TV advert for it. Take a vote as a class on which
  product you would buy based on the historical
  accuracy of the advert and how convincing the
  advert was.

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? Your task

• Study sources 1-5 and on the map of the world
  note as many of the following
• Evidence of who cured the sick, e.g. doctors or
  medicine men
• Types of cures medicines
• If the Prehistoric Britons / Ancient Egyptians
  used these methods

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? Writing task

• Was Egyptian medicine an important step forward?
  Answer this question as an essay. You should try
  to discuss these points
• Which ideas did Egyptians continue to use?
• Which ideas were new?
• Why the changes were important for the future