Describe the daily life of different groups in Ancient Egyptian society (pages 81 - 84)

• Pharoah is the leader l and he had to make sure the nile flooded, people had   food and that the army was good enough

• Second highest group is noble, priest, viezer and senior official

• Senior official needed to help the pharaoh in their role

• Viezer needed to supervise the running of the country

• Noble needed to make local laws and keeping order in their region

• Priests worked at the temples, they clothed, fed and put to bed the sculpted images that represented the deities to whom the temples were dedicated

• The third highest group were the scribes, they needed to record the stocks of foods, court proceedings, wills, legal documents and tax records

• The fourth highest group was the artisans and craftspeople

• The artisans made artworks to cover temples, royal tombs, and monuments

• Craftspeople created protective amulets, tomb paintings, funeral jars, painted pottery to hold nourishment, pottery figures, painted scenes, cartouches, hieroglyphics, ivory grave goods, protective weapons and boats

• The second lowest group were the peasant farmers and workers

• Peasant farmers grew the crops that supplied everyone with food

• Workers worked for the government during the flood season and then returned home to raise crops on their farms

• The lowest group were the servants and slaves

• Servants were cooks, butlers, litter carriers and the pharaoh's dressers

• Slaves worked on a farm or built biuldings

Describe the beliefs and values of the Ancient Egyptians (pages 89 - 90, 92)

• The country is majority Sunni Muslim

• The ancient Egyptians were a polytheistic people who believed that gods and goddesses controlled the forces of the human, natural, and supernatural world

How and why did the Egyptians build the pyramids? (pages 96 - 98)

How:

• The outside layer was bound together by mortar.

• Some stones were transported by rolling the stones over logs

• They used huge sand ramps to drag the stones up the pyramids

Why:

• They built it to use it as a place for tomba to protect the mummified bodies of their pharaohs

• They chose to build it on the west side of the river in the path of the setting sun

• Some historians believe that they built it in a triangular shape on the four sides to indicate their pharaohs journey in the afterlife

Describe the impacts of trade and warfare on Ancient Egypt (pages 101 - 103)

• The river Nile was the main trading route and boats and ships were mainly used to transport goods

• The trading route exposed the ancient Egyptians to foreign trades and cultures and this influenced the Egyptian merchants to participate in copper commonly used in producing ornaments.

Describe the physical features of China (pages 159 – 161)

• China is much bigger than australia

• It stretches across 3000 kilometers across south east asia

• The eastern side of china is there historic and farm land

• There are many rivers on the eastern side which provided water, transport and it caused floods which is why it's suitable for farming

• In the south west side of china, the land is very far above sea level which makes it too cold for farming

• In the north west there are many deserts so its too hot for farming

Describe the daily life of different groups in Ancient China (pages 164 - 166)

• The top group was the shi which were nobles, scholars, poets and philosophers

• Nobles were one of the wealthiest landowners and they had to give some of their profit to the emperor so that it helped to guarantee their protection

• Scholars learned and spread knowledge, they participated in politics and they carried on and carried forward Chinese traditional culture

• Poets wrote about love, romance and nature that people appreciate

• Philosophers were either government officials or scholars, traveling from one feudal state to another and offering ideas for social reform

• The second highest group were the nong who were the peasant farmers and they were valued by their name not reality