basic concepts of ancient civilizations

1. ANCIENT HISTORY

2. ANCIENT HISTORY BEGAN WITH THE
INVENTION OF WRITING
THEY USED
PICTOGRAMS

3. Do you know why writing was
invented?
They needed to control the
production, the land, the taxes.
The first writing system was invented
in Mesopotamia about 5500 years
ago.

4. FIRST CIVILISATIONS
Describe the pictures… Do you
know what the first civilisations
were?

5. WICH ELEMENTS DO THE
PICTURES HAVE IN
COMMON?
.
In ancient times, major civilisations
developed along large rivers and
next to the sea.

6. Do you know why rivers were so
important?
• All the ancient civilisations developed next to
big rivers.
• Good farming conditions made it easy to feed
large numbers of people.

7. • It was easy for people to move from place to
place.

8. MESOPOTAMIA
They used writing to edit the law.
The Hammurabi Code consists of 282 laws
If anyone commits a robbery and
is caught, then they shall be put to
death.
If a man destroys the eye of another
man, they shall destroy his eye. If one
breaks a man's bone, they shall break
his bone.
If a boy strikes his father they would
cut off the boy's hand or fingers .
If anyone commits a robbery and
is caught, then they shall be put to
death.
If a man destroys the eye of another
man, they shall destroy his eye. If one
breaks a man's bone, they shall break
his bone.
If a boy strikes his father they would
cut off the boy's hand or fingers .

10. The Rivers in Mesopotamia:
Euprhates, Tigris

11. They invented the wheel to
improve transportation
They made canals to improve
farming
First cities appeared: they had
streets, squares, public buildings,
palaces and temples.

12. Ziggurat was the most important
temple in Mesopotamia.
Only priests could come in
They had several plants
They wanted to be near to the sky

14. THE FERTILE CRESCENT LISTENING

17. GREEK CIVILITATION BEGAN TO
DEVELOP ABOUT 3000 YEARS AGO
DESCRIBE THE PICTURE

18. THEY WERE FARMERS AND
ANIMAL HEADERS

19. THEY FOUNDED PROSPEROUS
CITIES (POLIS) LIKE ATHENS AND
SPARTA

20. SOCIETY

21. Women in ancient Greece were not
permitted to take part in public life.
Men went to the Theatre for
entertainment To watch dramas
It is thought that women were not
allowed to watch theatre or perform at
the theatre, although male actors did
play women roles
THEY WERE INTERESTED IN
PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE AND ART

22. ANCIENT GREEKS INVENTED
DEMOCRACY AS A NEW FORM OF
GOVERMENT

23. • The Olympic Games began over 2,700
years ago in Olympia, in southwest
Greece. The Games were part of a
religious festival.. The Games were held
in honour of Zeus, king of the gods, and
were staged every four years at
Olympia, a valley near a city called Elis.
People from all over the Greek world
came to watch and take part. The
modern Olympic Games begun in 1896
The Olympic Games

24. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MthU

26. Can you see some similarity with the Greek
and the Mesopotamian civilisation?
GEOGRAPHY
People say that a man called
Romulus killed his twin
brother Remus and built a city
called Rome.

27. ROME
• ROME WAS THE ______OF AN ANCIENT
EMPIRE
• THE ROMANS SPOKE A ______ CALLED LATIN
(OUR LANGUAGE COMES FROM LATIN)
• THE ROMANS________ MANY CITIES AND
MONUMENTS
TEMPLE
AMPHITHEATRE
AQUEDUCT
CAPITAL
LANGUAGE
BUILT

28. • Of all the
people in
Ancient Rome,
nearly half of
them were
slaves.
• In Ancient
Rome, only
boys went to
school. Girls
stayed at
home.
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30. Ancient Egypt. Educational video
for Kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgVlXOyU10I