WEEK 1 Ancient Period of Africa and Middle East

Africa

• Stone tools

• Antlers

• Bone Harpoons

stone tools

• Chipping flakes off stones to sharpen for tools

• (during stone/paleolithic age).

Antlers

to create tools for cutting or drilling.

Bone Harpoons

• (barbed spears) used for fishing

Egypt

• 365 days in Calendar

• Hieroglyphics

• Sadd-el Kafara Dam

• 700 drugs and medications

• Mummification/Embalding

• a medical book named Symptoms of Leprosy

• Canal of the Pharaohs

Cairo

Capital of Egypt

365

How many days in the Egyptian Calendar

Hieroglyphics

Symbols from Egypt

Sadd-el Kafara Dam

• Located at the Garawi River

• It is the world’s oldest large-scale dam

700

How many drugs and medication was discovered by Egypt

Symptoms of Leprosy

What was described in the first medical book by Egypt?

Canal of the Pharaohs

A canal joining the Nile River with the Red Sea

Mesopotamia (Sumeria)

• Bagdan, Iraq

• sun - Dried bricks

• Clay tokens

• Wheel

• Glass

• Maps

• Irrigation system

• 360 day calendar

Clay tokens

used for record keeping.

Sun - Dried bricks

• What were the houses in Sumeria made out of?/

Irrigation system

What was used to water crops in Sumeria?

360

How many days were in the Sumerian Calendar?

Global Positioning System

What does GPS stand for?

Cartographer/Cartography

• Maker of maps, art of making maps

Iraq

• Sumeria is now known as?

Bagdan

Capital of Iraq

Mesopotamia (Phoenicia)

• Lebanon

• Created the Alphabet

Lebanon

Mesopotamia (Phoenicia) is now known as?

Alphabet

Was from Phoenicians, then to Greek to Latin (Roman) to English

Mesopotamia (Babylonia)

• Dispersal

• Astronomers study comets

• Positional number system

• Medicine as a separate science

• Star Catalogues

• Horoscopes

Comets

Bring Destruction or Grants your Wishes

Positional number system

• Is a Hindu Arabic Numeral System that uses symbols

• Used in Babylonia

Star Catalogues

• compile list of planets and stars

• (Also uses for divination)

Horoscopes

Divination or uses of planets for prediction of futures

Aries

• Ram

• Mar to Apr

Taurus

• Bull

  • Apr to May

Gemini

• Twins

  • May to June

Cancer

• Crab

• June to July

Leo

• Lion

• July to Aug

Virgo

• Maiden/Virgin

• Aug to Sept

Libra

• Balance

• Sept to Oct

Scorpio

• Scorpion

• Oct to Nov

Sagittarius

• Archer/Centaur

• Nov to Dec

Capricon

• Goat

• Dec to Jan

Aquarius

• Water Bearer

• Jan to Feb

Pisces

• Fish

• Feb to Mar