Answers to Questions

1. There is a relationship between mummification and natural environment. Mummification can happen through the environment, if a person dies near a bog or airless area there body will stay untouched or just partially decayed not fully.

2. Some of the reasons people have been mummified is ancient people believed that mummies have a much better chance in there afterlife, they believed mummified people will live a rich and prosperous life, and be powerful in there afterlife.

Defining Words

The words I didn't know were

Cadavers: A corpse or lich, is a dead human body

Societal Outcasts: A person who is rejected, and sometimes isolated

Bogs: is a wetland that accumulates acidic peat

Transgressions: a crime usually created by social or economic boundary

Cryonics: A low temperature Preservation of humans and animals

Mummy: An ancient cadaver whose soft tissues has partially or wholly resisted decay

1. Mummies have been part on parts of the Andes, China, Europe and Egypt.

2. Mummies were usually found in wet and damp places such as bogs, you can also find mummies on really high altitudes such as the Andes, Some mummies are found indoors such as the Pyramids in Egypt.

3. Ancient Egyptians preserved the dead by wrapping the in linen and then putting them in a sarcophagus.

4. Ancient Egyptians took a lot of care to embalm the dead because they believed that the way there buried that's how there afterlife I going to look like, If they were buried with lots of treasures, they will be rich and powerful in there afterlife.

5. Wet areas such as bogs attentionality mummify people, also places without a lot of oxygen.

6. Some mummies were intentionally mummified in order to life an afterlife, others were executed and then mummified.

Questions

1. Does mummification have to do with religion ?
2. Do certain areas of the same religion mummify people while others don't?
3. Do all culture's that believe in afterlife mummify?
4. If a culture mummify's do they mummify every single person?
5. Does your mummification depend on your place in the community?

Phoenicians Project

This is are ancient empires poster about Phoenicia.

Unit Reflection

Through the domestication of plants and animals we got new things, and we always had food. Animals such as dogs could help us hunt other animals for food. We didn't constantly have to move and settle in different places. The transition from hunter-gatherers to early civilizations was very important. We started producing surplus and we started to live in bigger settlements that didn't migrate. Governments formed and there were social classes and a division of labor. Early beliefs and religion were also very important. They gave people a chance to believe in something. If someone told me that learning about Sumerians wasn't important, they were one of the first civilizations, lot's of the things we have today we owe to Sumerians who invented them. We couldn't do lot's of the thing's we do today without the Sumerians they were the first civilization with kingship and that's how government started.

Endeduana of Sumer

Enheduana was the first known author in mans history, she was also the first bestseller. Enheduana lived 4300 years BC and was the daughter of King Sargon, considered the best king of the Akkadian empire. Her father used to be a cupbearer for the king for the king of Kish and managed to get the throne and expand the empire. When Enheduana became a teenager, her father thought she was responsible and appointed her the high priestess to Nanna, the important moon-god of Sumer. Enheduana had to move to the city of Ur to live and work on top of the 7 story ziggurat which was situated in the middle. As the high priestess Enheduana had to preform rituals and prayers throughout the year, she also had to offer sacrifices. Enheduana wrote a great cycle of poetry, which was sung and preformed. A nephew of Enheduana came in power and sent her into exile.

1. At the time Enheduana lived books weren't paperback they were clay tablets which were much more durable.
2. Enheduana lived in the city of Akkad, her father used to be a humble cupbearer for the king of Kish and he somehow became the king then he expanded the empire and included new states.
3. Enheduana was the High priestess of Nanna the important moon-god of sumer, when her nephew became king after the death of her father she replaced her with his daughter and sent her into exile.
4. Archeologists found over 50 copies of her work, back then only some people could read, it was also very hard to copy onto clay tablets.
5. Enheduana she wrote about her father and how at one point city-states he united had a revolt against him but he finally broke the siege and there was peace again

From earliest times, people have changed their environments. How have people today changed their environment. Discuss both the good and the bad

We've changed are environment in many ways. We domesticated animals, which helped us, but also provided shelter for lots of animals such as dogs. We used animals for different resources such as milk for that we domesticated cows. We clear the rainforests and forests to obtain wood and fields for farming and fields for grazing. We sometimes build mountains or islands to be able to house more people. Sometimes we blow up mountains to look for gold or diamonds. People did lot's of things to affect are environment during are history and we still do today. All of the things we do we gain, but sometimes it badly affects are environment.

Why is Catal Huyuk An Important Archaelogical Find?

Catal Huyuk was one of the biggest settlements in the world at that time. And by studying it archeologists could find out a lot about the life of earlier humans in one of the first big settlements in the world what there living standards were like and how an average person lived. Through this one city historians and archeologists already found out that the people of Catal Huyuk mostly farmed, they also know the people traded there surplus and made hunting weapons and tools out of obsidian. Catal Huyuk was different than we would think of it there were no roads but everybody walked on each others roof you entered the house through the hole on the roof, to historians and archeologists revealed a lot about the peoples culture and thinking. Catal Huyuk is also very important because through out this we can see how most of the people in this region lived and worked and what the design was of most nearby settlements.