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Egypt and Sumer Notes

• Religion, Government, Economy, Geography, Social
  Structure, and Accomplishments

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Egypt - Religion

• Mummification the preservation of the dead
• Sun god was chief god
• Pharaohs were looked upon as a god as well as a
  monarch
• Buried pharaohs with great care and filled tombs
  with riches

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Egypt Govt

• Pharaoh ran the land
• Vizier - chief advisor who oversaw all
  activities (enforced laws, collected taxes)

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Egypt - Economy

• Based on trade, but surplus and advances allowed
  for new opportunities (merchants)
• Foreign conquests brought new riches to Egypt

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Egypt - Geography

• Nile River Valley
• Yearly floods helped leaving layer of silt (rich
  soil)
• Cataract - waterfall of the Nile
• Delta triangular area of marshland formed by
  deposits of silt at the mouth of some rivers

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Egypt - Accomplishments

• Building of pyramids
• Advancement in medicine, astronomy, and
  mathematics

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Sumer - Religion

• Believed in afterlife a grim underworld from
  which there was no release
• Gods were thought to control every aspect of life
• Polytheistic

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Sumer Govt

• Many independent city states
• Each city state ruler was responsible for
  maintaining city walls and irrigation
• Led armies in war and enforced the laws

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Sumer - Economy

• Trade brought riches to city
• Using rivers and the first wheeled vehicles were
  able to expand trade routes

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Sumer - Geography

• Fertile Crescent
• Between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
• Rivers frequently rose and flooded, causing the
  soil to be ruined

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Sumer Social Structure

• Social hierarchy
• Ruling family, high priests, leading officials
  (highest class)
• Merchants, artisans, lesser priests, scribes
  (small middle class)
• Peasant farmers (largest class)
• Slaves (lowest class)

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Sumer -Accomplishments

• First wheeled vehicles
• 1st writing system (cuneiform)
• used iron