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In your groups:
1)  Use the textbook to answer the questions on the Padlet. (Include pictures and links in your responses to help illuminate the material).
2) On a large sticky note create a visual response to the main ideas and questions from your section to be presented.

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1. What was the Nile's Usual flood pattern?
2.How were the political power structures that developed in Egypt become linked to the Nile river?
3. Describe three unique ways the Nile was used by ancient Egyptians?

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1. What was unique about the pharaoh?

2. Why was the pharaoh considered a deity?

3. What was the earliest of the Egyptian dynasties?

4. What did Egyptians do with their dead?.

5. In what document did they preserve these ideas?

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1. What was formal Egyptian writing called and what was it typically written on?
2. What was the less formal writing script used in Ancient Egypt.
3. Why did they have two different scripts?
4. How was ancient Egypts social structure organized?  (Draw it and include the major segments of Egyptian hierarchy).

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1. Describe ancient Egyptian Family life.
2.How were sons and daughters treated differently in the structure of ancient Egyptian families?
3How were male and female roles different in Egyptian society?

4. What were the labor obligations for common Egyptians during the Old Kingdom?

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1. Who were the Hyksos people and why did they move into the Nile delta during the Middle Kingdom?
2. What positive contributions did the Hyksos make to Ancient Egyptian society, particularly the military?

3. How were the Hyksos rulers defeated and what happened as a result?

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1. Who was Akhenaton and how was he unique among other Pharaohs?.
2. Who were the Hittites, where were they from and how did they impact the Egyptians?.

2. How did the early confrontations between the Egyptians and Hittites end? Be specific.
4. What led to the collapse of the Hittites and the fragmentation of the Egyptian empire?

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1. What was The Bronze Age Collapse and what was its impact in the region?
2. As Egyptian power began to decline what new power centers emerged in the region?
3. How did Egypt and the Pharaohs confront these new powers?
4. Who was King Piye and what were some of his accomplishments?

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1. Who were The Phoenicians, what were they famous for, and what was the range of their settlements?

2. How was The Phoenician culture and society constructed?

3. What were some of the many cultural achievements of The Phoenicians and who did they influence?

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1.  Hieroglyphics was the more formal form of Egyptian writing, written on stone or papyrus.  This was used for religious or political writings.

2.  Hieratic was the less formal form of Egyptian writing, used to write documents of daily life.

3. They had two different scripts because one was more formal, while the other allowed for more efficient and quicker writing for different types of documents.

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1. called "purple people". introduced grape growing and new regions around the Mediterranean, which increased the amount of wine for consumption and trade. also traded goods which made them welcomed visitors. their travels brought them in contact with greeks, which introduced many components of Mesopotamian and Egyptian cultures

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1. The Pharaoh was the political and religious leader in Egypt. This is unique because usually, they would have a political leader and also a religious leader.

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Akhenaton was the son of Amenhotep III, and a Pharaoh is Egypts new kingdom. Akhenaton was unique because he changed Egyptian religious ideas, choosing to worship Aton as Egypt's sun god (rather than Amon or Ra).

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1. (Victoria)
a.) The Hyksos people were a group of Egyptians who migrated throughout the Fertile Crescent and accommodated to local culture.
b.) They were looking for good/better land to live and farm on.

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3. The earliest Dynasty was the Old Kingdom from 2660-2180 B.C.E.

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1. Egyptian's lives centered around family. Although this was the case most families treated marriage as a business arrangement and arranged marriages for their children at a younger age.
2. Women were expected to be married off and have children, ideally boys to continue the family line. Women still had many legal rights, they could own land or have a business, but they were still expected to obey the men of the family.

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2. the culture included many writings including an alphabet, and developed signs that represented sounds. this system helped begin communication among the people and practical record keeping. while Egyptian scribes and officials used hieroglyphics, the Phoenicians created a simpler system for their own language and spread it around the Mediterranean.

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They brought methods of making bronze from the eastern Mediterranean

They also brought techniques of casting the bronze into weapons that would later become a common and crucial part of Egypts army

They brought Egypt into the bronze age

They brought horse drawn chariots and the composite bow, which helped revolutionize their army

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2. They believed the pharaoh to be a descendant of the sun god Ra
4. Mummified them to preserve the corpses and then buried the important ones, typically Pharaohs, in Pyramids
5. The Book of the Dead, which was in actuality a papyrus scroll.

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3. they traded and founded colonies throughout the Mediterranean and dispersed the phonetic alphabet.

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1. The Nile river flooded once a year for a period of several months bringing fertile soil and moisture for farming.

2. The idea developed that a king was responsible for the rise and fall of the Nile. Through this, the king became viewed as a descendant of the gods and a god himself.

3. During the flooding season, the farmers would work on tasks away from the field. When the flooding receded, the farmers were able to use the Nile's water for irrigation and farming. They also used the Nile as a highway. They were able to communicate using the Nile which ran through all of Egypt, and this unified them. They also used the Nile as a means for trading.

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The Hittites Kingdom of Hittites was a kingdom that rivaled Egypt shortly after Akhenaton's death. At around 1600 BCE, Hittite kings began to conquer and obtain more land. Because of their southward expansion, they came into conflict with Egypt and both sides battled until a peace treaty in 1258 BCE.

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3. In Egyptian Society, the males continued the family line because only they could perform the burial rites for their father. Most men married one wife, but others had multiple and had similar rights to women, who had to obey their father and husband. Men and women were both able to own land, operate business, and testify in court.
4. The nile decided much of what the labor obligations looked like for the Egyptians back then, especially for farmers. During the flooding season, farmers worked on the pharaoh's building programs, but as the water receded, they diverted water for future irrigation and planted and harvested crops until the next flood season. Other labor obligations included forced labor as slaves and fighting in the Pharaoh's army after being drafted.

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a.) (Victoria) 1570 B.C.E, new pharaoh dynasty pushed out all the Hyksos from Egypt.

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b.) (Will)

Resulted in the pharaoh's conquering the northeast and southern territory

This led to the New kingdom

And the first Egyptian Empire

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The first interactions between the Hittites and the Egyptians were fairly negative. Both sides were trying to expand, and seeing the other side in the way of their expansion, a number of battles were fought between the two sides. The war between the Egyptians and the Hittites ended as a sort of draw, with both sides understanding they couldn't conquer the other.

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The Hittites and the Egyptians both collapsed and fragmented because of "Sea Peoples." The Sea People raided and migrated into the coastal parts of the Hittite and Egyptian empire. The raids and migration of Sea People, along with the expansion of Assyria collapsed the Hittite Empire, and fragmented the Egyptian Empire.

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1. The Bronze Age Collapse was a time of massive political and economic disruption and was also a period of the spread of new technologies.

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1. The Bronze Age Collapse was a time of massive political and economic disruption and was also a period of the spread of new technologies.

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2. The new powers that merged were Nubia, and then another power, which was Kush, took over and created what is now Sudan.
3. They adopted the cultures of Ancient Egypt, specifically Egyptian gods, the use of hieroglyphics, and the buliding of pyramids.
4. King Piye was a Kushite and swept through the entire Nile
Valley to the delta in the north and created an empire.