How do natural features such as rivers, lakes, and mountains hep unite people or keep them isolated?

Natural features can keep people united but also isolated. Rivers oftentimes unite people, because they can trade and travel down the river to establish communication with other town or villages along the river. But a river can also isolate people, if they don't have boats or transportation to get over the river. Lakes can also act like rivers you can get to the other towns and villages and communicate and unite. But people can also unite walking around the lake which is also and option. Mountains mostly isolate people especially if there tall. It takes time to climb onto a mountain or over it, mountains can also be very dangerous and treacherous.

Traveling Down the Nile river

I am traveling down the Nile river in a Greek trading Vessel. To the right and left side of me I can see small wooden homemade Egyptian fishing ships pushing there way through the strong currents of the Ferocious Nile river. Suddenly on the right side a small town appears the streets are bustling, and ships take turns entering and leaving the harbor. I can smell the pleasant aroma of fresh fish being unloaded off the small Egyptian vessels. I hear fisherman at the fish market debating the prices for the fish they proudly caught with the unsatisfied merchants, Who think the fishermen went mad. I can feel the afternoon breeze pushing at my back as we sail further on. Inside I feel intrigued by this ancient civilization, but at the other hand satisfied that I visited great river.

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