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Jun 1, 1400
British Museum - Egypt
Egyptian LifeDaily life in ancient Egypt revolved around the Nile and the fertile land along its banks. The yearly flooding of the Nile enriched the soil and brought good harvests and wealth to the land. The people of ancient Egypt built mudbrick homes in villages and in the country. They grew some of their own food and traded in the villages for the food and goods they could not produce. -
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Egypt- Different Types of Writing
The writting LanguageHieroglyphic writing is the basis of the two other writings. It owes its name to the fact that when the Greeks arrived in Egypt, this writing was mainly used for ‘sacred (Greek hieros) inscriptions (Greek glypho)’ on temple walls or on public monuments.Hieroglyphic writing uses clearly distinguishable pictures to express both sounds and ideas and was used from the end of the Prehistory until 396 AD, when the last hieroglyphic text was written on the walls of the temple. -
British Museum - China
GeographyModern China is a vast country. It is the world's fourth largest country and is home to approximately 1.25 billion people - nearly a quarter of the world's population.
It has a great variety of climates and terrains. The south is wet and tropical, with some rainforest coverage. North-west China is covered in desert. In the very far north-east, close to Russia, the temperature can drop to -50ºC in the winter. -
Egypt-flag
The modern Egypt’s first national flag was established in 1923 by a Royal Decree at the time Egypt attained conditional independence in 1922 from the Great Britain. The color of such flag is green and in the middle, there is a white crescent and three white stars. A new United Arab Republic flag was established by a Presidential Decree in 1958. -
Ancient China
China is located in Asia. It has the oldest surviving civilization in the world. Ancient China began between 500,000 and 5000 years ago. The first villages were built about 5000 years ago. No single date marks the end of Ancient China. The Chinese have many ancient traditions and celebrations. The dragon is a sign of good luck -
Egypt-History For Kids
History of EgyptPeople have probably been living in Egypt at least since 100,000 BC, when humans first started to move out of Ethiopia north around the Arabian Peninsula. While a lot of Egypt is a desert, the area right along the Nile River grows lots of plants and is an easy place to live. Gradually more people came to Egypt, and those people had lots of kids. Egypt became more crowded, so there was more need for a unified government. -
Mesopotamia - Fordham
GeographyHuman use of the rivers. Man have been attracted to both rivers since prehistoric times. As water ways they make inland navigation possible. The rivers yearly flood its banks, producing fertile land. The character of Euphrates and Tigris are different.
The Tigris is rough and fast flowing. 'Tigris' is the Greek pronunciation of the Akkadian name idiqlat, (initial vocal disappears and l>r), Sumerian idigna meaning 'fast as an arrow'. The upper course in particular is difficult to pass. -
Ancient-Egypt
The Ancient Egypt Site The more than 3000 year long history of Ancient Egypt has been divided into 8 or 9 periods, sometimes called Kingdoms. This modern-day division is somewhat arbitrarily based on the country's unity and wealth and the power of the central government. The Ancient Egyptians themselves did not group their rulers according to such criteria. They rather seem to have developed the notion of dynasties throughout their history. -
Mesopotamia - Crystalinks
HistoryIn the Iron Age, Mesopotamia was controlled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires. The indigenous Sumerians and Akkadians (including Assyrians and Babylonians) dominated Mesopotamia from the beginning of written history (c. 3100 BC) to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC, when it was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire. It fell to Alexander the Great in 332 BC and, after his death, it became part of the Greek Seleucid Empire. Around 150 BC, Mesopotamia was under the control of the Parthians. -
Ancient Mesopotamia
Life in MesopotamiaThe ancient Mesopotamians worshipped hundreds of gods, each with his/her own name and sphere of activity. Every city had its own patron god or goddess, and there were also deities connected with various professions - such as scribes and builders. But only a few gods - those who controlled major realms of the universe, such as the sky, the sun, and air - received attention as major deities. -
Mesopotamia - British Museum
GeographyMesopotamia is a Greek word meaning 'between the rivers'. The rivers are the Tigris and Euphrates which flow through modern Iraq. The Euphrates also flows through much of Syria.Mesopotamia is made up of different regions, each with its own geography. The geography of each area and the natural resources found there affected the ways that people lived.
