Create your creator

Bell Work

• Why do you think some cultures worship only one god while others worship many?

Step 1

• On your own or with 1 partner choose a spot on the map for your city• Name your city

• Create your patron god• What does your god look like?

(draw its image or symbol)• Why do you worship this god?• What are 2 of your god’s

responsibilities?

Prepare to share

Step 2

• Join with 1 other group

• You must now combine your gods• Create a new name for

your god.• What are 2 responsibilities

of your god?• How has your god’s image

changed?

Prepare to share

Last Step

• What if we all combined into one?• What would we do then?

Unification

• Narmer – 3100 BC• United upper and lower

Egypt into one kingdom• Each city keeps its patron

god• The god of the sun – Re –

becomes the most popular and powerful of Egypt’s many gods

Egyptian Theocracy

Bell Work

• Please analyze the cartoon by using:

• List objects/people

• Identify symbols

• Explain the message

Consider…

• To what degree should religion be involved in public life?• Should the nation’s rules be based on

religion?• Should the faith our president follows

matter?

Theocracy

• A form of political organization in which the government is based on religious principles. 

Who ruled?

VIZIERHigh Priests /

NoblesDoctors,

engineers, etc.Scribes & merchants

Craftsmen

Slaves, farmers, etc.

Egyptian Theocracy: Major Gods

Khnum• The Ram headed Sun

God• 1 of 3 versions of Ra• God of rebirth and

creation• Temple at Karnak

Osiris• God of the Dead

• Murdered by his brother Set

• Restored by Isis

Egyptian Theocracy: Major Gods

Isis• Goddess of Nature

• Wife of Osiris

Egyptian Theocracy: Major Gods

Anubis• God of

Mummification• Weighs the soul of

the dead in the underworld

Egyptian Theocracy: Major Gods

What was life like in an Egyptian Theocracy?

• No say in government but…

• You could move from class to class

• Marriage, education, children, and women were respected• Women could own property, work outside

the home, and even rule as pharaoh

• Males must serve in the military for a time

• As a farmer you would work on building projects during the ‘off season’

Mostly a benign form of government

Egyptian Theocracy

• Why did ancient Egyptians care about the pharaoh's experience in the afterlife?

Care for the afterlife

Care in the afterlife

• Canopic jars

• Shabti

Care in the afterlife• Personal Items

Egyptian Theocracy

In Life• Pharaoh WAS the sun god

reborn and ruled by divine right

• Priests advised him on what their god would want him to do

• The people did not question government or vote

• In general citizens had the freedom to pursue the life the wanted

After Death• Pharaoh became the Ram

Headed Sun God after death and travelled through the underworld

• Pharaoh’s subjects went to great pains to preserve his body, prepare his tomb with spells and servants, and protect his final resting place

• They did this to ensure the sun continued to rise

Homework

• Design your own theocracy1. Who would be in control?2. What would the rules for your society be?3. Would you base these rules on an existing

religion or a new one?4. What types of ceremonies or rituals would

you have?5. How would you view the afterlife?6. As the leader, when you die how will they

handle your body and soul?7. Would you rule as a living god or just with the

god’s authority? • What is your god like?

Bell Work

• Directions: • 1st hand in your “perfect theocracy” assignment• 2nd Briefly answer the questions below regarding

EGYPTIAN theocracy

1. Describe their religious beliefs.

2. Who holds control?

3. How did rulers control the people?

4. What was life like for people who lived in this theocracy?

Mayan Sacrifice

1. What type of sacrifices are the Maya making?

2. Why are they making these sacrifices?

3. Why do they stop?

4. Who is Kukulkan and what does he want?

The Maya and Aztecs

1. Describe their religious beliefs.

2. Who holds control?

3. How did rulers control the people?

4. What was life like for people who lived in this theocracy?

5. How did it end?

Bell Work

1. How are the Egyptian Theocracy and the Mayan Theocracy different?

2. The same?

• Please use the Venn Diagram (right) to answer this question

Venn DiagramMaya

ntraits

Egyptian

traits

Different:1. religious

beliefs?2. Who holds

control?3. What was

life like

Same

Different:1. religious

beliefs?2. Who holds

control?3. What was

life like

Iran

• Atefah Sahaaleh• What

was her life like?

• What are some examples of Sharia law?

Iran

• Atefah Sahaaleh• Why is

she arrested a 2nd a time?

Iran

• Atefah Sahaaleh• What was

her sentence?

• Did Atefah know what was going to happen to her?

Happy Friday

• No BW

• Today’s Agenda• Intro to project• Complete reading and worksheet (due

Monday)• Hand out posters

Bell Work

• Please grab a poster from the front table and write your NAME on the back.

• Today’s Agenda• Check Iran Worksheet• Share proper source format• Share possible 3rd source• Hand out posters• 214 for research

Bell Work

• Take out your Iran Reading worksheet and show it to Mrs. V• If you haven’t finished it you will not be allowed to

work on a computer until it is done• WKCE Letters• 214 for research

• REMINDER*• Project is due tomorrow

• Poster• Summary• Current event summary• Sources

Bell Work

• None, today is a work day for you to finish your Theocracy Project• We do not have access to computers for

everyone

• REMINDER*• Project is due tomorrow

• Poster• Summary• Current event summary• Sources

Today’s Agenda

• Project Presentations• You will share

• Paragraph 3 of your summary• Your current event summary

• You will hand in • Poster• theocracy summary• Current event summary• sources

Quiz Monday**

Tomorrow- Finish presentations?-CSI-Middle East

Bell Work: Please copy down these

directions for TEST CORRECTIONS

1. Write the number of the question you had wrong on a SEPARATE piece of paper

2. Write the CORRECT answer next to ito If it was a multiple choice question, 1st write the correct

letter and then the letter’s answer• If it is an essay, ONLY address the portion of the essay

you lost points on. If you lost points on the entire essay, rewrite the whole

thing

3. You will HAND IN• Test• Separate sheet with corrections

• Staple these together

Friday

• Today’s Agenda• Hand Back Tests• Hand in Iran Sources (Theocracy

Reading, comic)• Finish presentations• Middle East Article• CSI

• HOMEWORK: Study for Quiz MONDAY

The Middle East

• Birthplace of:• Writing• Monotheism• Cities

• ½ the world’s spiritual origins

• Largest oil and gas reserves

• 9/11 hijackers

• 2 wars = Iraq and Afghanistan• 6,000 + US casualties

• Arab Spring and the demand for Democracy

The Middle East and Oil

• Found by the British 100 years ago

• Found by the US in Saudi Arabia 1938• Close and sometimes shady ties• Drastically changed the lifestyle in the

ME

10 Things you need to know about the Middle

East (actually 3)• Please read :#7#9#10

• Then answer the following1. Why is there tension between the US and Iran?2. Do all Iranians dislike the US?

• How do you know this?

3. How does the US relationship between Iran and Saudi Arabia differ?

• Why does this difference exist?

4. Should the US encourage Saudi Arabia to increase freedoms for its people?

• Why or why not?

5. Do you believe the Arab Spring will bring democracy to the region?