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Imperial History of the Middle East

King Tut Was Murdered

King Tut Was Murdered

By Kevin Meyer

King Tutankhamen�s death is mysterious and the cause of death has not yet been figured out. To some, it was a fatal accident, to others it was an unforgettable murder. Surely it was murder, because of damage and a blood clot found in his skull, but who murdered him is the puzzling question. Anybody that had contact with the king could be accused or at least questioned.King Tut became king when he was approximately 8-9 years old. Evidence suggests that he was around 18- 19 years old when he died. This is, obviously, a young age to die. Howard Carter, an archaeologist who discovered King Tut�s tomb in 1922, also discovered his mummy. Current technology such as x-rays shows a huge bump on his head and bone fragments in his skull. Because of the physical evidence, the huge bump on his head and with the blood clot found there, King Tut was definitely murdered.

Two minor suspects are the cupbearer and the king�s attendant. They are likely to be among the few that could approach the king without orders and or go into his bedroom when he was asleep. They surely had access and permission to go about in Tut�s room without permission.

After Tut�s death, Ankhespaton, King Tut�s wife, sent away for a prince of the Hittites (Egypt�s enemies) that wasn�t part of the kingdom so that she didn�t have to marry Aye and she could still stay queen. The Hittite prince was murdered on the way to Egypt before he could marry Ankhespaton! Later Queen Ankhespaton mysteriously disappeared after finally marrying Aye the vizier for King Tut!

Another possible suspect could be General Horemheb. He was the powerful army officer that eventually ascended to Tut�s throne. Horemheb was trusted by King Tut. It has already been stated that the Hittite prince on the way over to Egypt to marry Ankhespaton was murdered. Guess who sent orders to have him killed? Horemheb. He was the head of the military and he ordered soldiers to kill the prince. As an army official, Horemheb would be dishonest to investigators in order to keep his job. He wanted the prince dead so that Ankhespaton would have no choice; she would have to marry Aye. Later Horemheb did his best and succeeded in erasing Ankhespaton, Aye, and King Tutankhamen from the Royal Book of Kings and Queens.

The last and most reasonable person who would want Tutankhamen dead would be Tut�s grandfather and also the vizier of Tut, Aye. He was very jealous that Tut became king when he was only eight or nine years old. A lot of evidence shows that Aye is a very reasonable suspect of killing Tutankhamen. After Tut�s death, Aye refused to start an investigation. He didn�t bother to research the dramatic story about Tut�s death and he advised other people not to either. Since people don�t know who murdered Tut Aye and Horemheb most likely were working together.

King Tut was murdered by one of these people. It was a very unfortunate death. The dramatic research is still going on. Remember, King Tut died from something other than natural causes, his mummy shows it.

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TASK: You have to read the text and watch the videos.  Then, answer these questions:

1. King Tut�s nickname:
2. Age when he became pharaoh:
3. Age when he died:
4. Father�s name:
5. Wife�s name:
6. Who discovered his tomb:
7. Location of tomb:
8. Interesting fact about his reign:
9. Something found in his tomb:
10. How long he reigned:

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Vocabulary unit 9

Writing: It appeared in Mesopotamia over 5,000 years ago.

River civilizations: It is the civilization developed along large rivers surrounded by fertile land. The main rivers are the Tigris , Euphrates, Nile ...

Civil servant: People who work as scribes, could read write and count . They write the laws and the commercial transactions.

Hierarchical society: It was when the society was divided into clearly differentiated groups.

Cuneiform writing: It is a type of writing, consisted of signs drawn on clay tablets with a reed.

Hammurabi: It was the person who wrote the earliest law code.

Sumerian period: It was a country that were dominant in the third millenium BC. Independent cities were ruled by high priests in this period. It was the first mesopotamia civilizations.

Slaves: it is the part of the population they had no rights. Usually are prisoner of the war.

Ziggurats: They were the temples in the Mesopotamian region. They were built as stepped pyramids. They were built with mud.

Floods and dams: It is necessary when the water grow up.The wall to border the river and to control the water is a dam.

Mummy: It's a dead body. They were preserved in Egypt

Hieroglyphics: It is a type of writing, consisted of signs engraved on Egypt. They were created around 5,000 years ago. Some hieroglyphics signs represent an idea while others represents a sound.

Pharaohs: They were the egyptian Kings

Papyrus: It is a kind of paper used by the egyptians to write.

Old kingdom: It was a period in the Egypt History,

Middle kingdom: It was a period in the Egypt History,

New kingdom: It was a period in the Egypt History, started around 1600 BC.

Thebes: It was the capital in the Middle and New Kingdoms.

Memphis: It was the capital in the Old Kingdom, with pyramids

Polytheistic: It is when in a religion, the people believe  a lots of gods

Afterlife: It is when in a religion, the people believe in a life after dead

Pyramid: It's a tomb, the place where the pharaoh was buried.

Hypogeum: It is a type of egyptian tomb, built in the rock

Mastaba:  It is a type of egiptian tomb

A day in the life of the ancient Egipt doctor

Read the text in your book  on pages 152 and 153

Make the activities 1,2, and 4

After that, watch this video 

At the end of the video explain:

• How is the medicine in Egypt?
• How is the ordinary  life in Egypt?
• What is most relevant in your opinion about the video?

Ancient Egypt

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Vocabulary. Unit 9

Homework:

• You have to look for the meaning of these words and write them in english;

You need to know these words and your meanings for the  exam. I´m going to ask you.

Writing	Pharaohs
River civilizations	Papyrus
Civil servant	Old kingdom
Hierarchical society	Middle kingdom
Cuneiform writing	New kingdom
Hammmurabi	Thebes
Sumerian period	Menphis
slaves	Polytheistic
ziggurats	Afterlife
Flooded and dams	Pyramids
Mummy	Sarcophagus
Hieroglyphics	scribe

Ancient Egypt | National Geographic

Geography of Egypt

1. What is today the capital of Egypt? _______________________

2. What sea borders Egypt to the north? _______________________
3. What is the name of the canal that divides mainland Egypt from the Sinai Peninsula? _______________________
4. What is the name of the major river that flows through Egypt? _______________________
5. What is the name of the desert that borders Egypt to the west? _______________________
6. What is the name of the country that borders Egypt to the south? _______________________
7. The Aswan Dam is at one end of which lake? _______________________
8. If you wanted to travel from Cairo to Alexandria, in which direction would you head?

9. What were the "red" and "black" lands.  How were they so different?

10. Explain the different moment in the Egyptian History.

11. Explin the phase: "Egypt is a gift  of the Nile".

Ancient Mesopotamia

Code of Hammurabi

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This video is a Powerpoint Presentation. Link here

Homework:

1. What was Hammurabi?
2. what mean "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."
3. What should happen to someone who takes in a runaway slave?
4. What should be done to the carpenter who builds a house that falls and kills the owner? ?
5. When was discovered the hammurabi´s code
6. Where is  it today?

Rise of Sumer: Cradle of Civilization

Mesopotamian activities

MESOPOTAMIA: THE DAWN OF CIVILIZATION

Mesopotamia is one of the world’s earliest civilizations. 

Please read and  use the Mesopotamia unit in your book on pages 146, 147, 148 and 149 to answer the following questions o use this link.
It is located between two rivers, the _________________________
and the ______________________________________.
The area that became Mesopotamia was known as the
How did the residents control flooding?
What was the name of the first region to develop in Mesopotamia?
Name two things the Sumerians invented:
(1) __ (2) 
What was their system of writing called?
What materials were used to write?
What is the name of the earliest story ever written?
How many cuneiform tablets were used to tell his story?
What are the names of the diferent periods in mhe Mesopotamian History

What Mesopotamian impere ruled the largest territory

What groups of people made up these social groups:
Trading goods and services without money is called:
The most important building in Sumer was its temple called a: __________________, where priests led religious life

Early civilizations

Stonehenge

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After the video: 

• When was built Stonehenge? 
• How many year are old? 
• What uses did it have? 
• What is the average weight of each stone? 
• What is the origin region for the Bluestone? 
• What do you think about how was possible to move these stones? 
• When are the two most important moment arround the year in Stonehenge?

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Vocabulario tema 8

Paleolithic Age

It is a Prehistoric Ages. It extends from the emergence of our firs Antecessor to about 11000 years ago.

Neolithic Age

It is a Prehistoric Ages.  It began about 11000 tears ago. Groups of human beings started to live in villages.  They practised agriculture and raised cattle.

Metal Age

It is a Prehistoric Ages. It began about 7000 years ago. Human beings learned to use metals to make objects.

Homo Habilis

It is a Human species. These appeared two million years ago. Their brain was bigger. Their name habilis mans skilful. They made stone tools and lived from hunting and gathering.

Homo Erectus

It is a Human species. These appeared one and a half million years ago. They walked upright. This was the first species to live outside Africa. They lived in Europe and Asia. They discovered fire.

Excalibur

It was also found in Atapuerca. It is not King Arthur's sword. It is an extraordinary biface of beautiful red quartize.

Nomadic

It is when the people moved from one place to another in the Paleolithic Age.

Neolithic Revolution

Neolithic means new stone. Howeder it was not just the technology of stone instruments of stone instruments which was new. There were other important changes.

Wheel

It is an object in the Metal Ages which greatly improved transport.

Plough

It is an object in the Metal Ages which made working the land easier and faster.

Mehir

It was single long vertical stones. They were probably connected to the cult of the Sun.

Stone Circles

Its were wide circles formed by several menhirs. They probably had a religious function.

Australopithecus

It is a Human species. These appeared about five million years ago. They wee very similar to chimpanzees. However the Australopithecus normally walked on two feet.

Homo Antecessor

It is a Human species. They were the oldest human remains in Europe, that  appeared in Atapuerca Spain. They are 8000000 years ago.

Homo Neanderthal

It is a Human species. They were a different specie who lived in Europe 150000 years ago. They were stronger than we are but shorter. They were the first species to bury their dead. It seems they were able to speak.

Homo Sapiens

It is a Human species. Our specie appeared in Africa about 130000 years ago. Homo sapiens were slimmer but taller than Neanderthals. They enjoyed greater intellectual development. They were able to make finer tools. They developed a more complex language the ability to interact whit other human beings and to cooperate. They also created art.

Atapuerca

It is one of the most interesting and beautiful sites relating to human evolution. This archaeological site is near Burgos in the north of Spain. It was found accidentally in the nineteenth century when a trench for a mining train was being built. However the most important discoveries have been made very recently.

Biface

It is a prehistoric stone tool, made with two faces.

Palaeolithic Arte

It is a type of art, called cave art. About 35000 years ago human beings started decorating caves with paintings.

Pottery

It is a Neolithic object. They used clay vessels to store cereal and bowls to eat and cook.

Sail

It is an object in the Metal Ages which meant that ships could be bigger because they used the force of the wind.

Neolithic monuments

They were monuments built with big blocks of stone in the last years of the Neolithic Age and during the Metal Ages. They  were called megaliths.

Dolmens

They were complex constructions. Vertical stones covered by horizontal blocks. They were used as burial places.

Stonehenge

The ruins at Stonehenge are the remains of a stone circle. The enormous stones which form the outside circle weigh around 25 tons each. The stones inside are even bigger. Archaeologists believe that Stonehenge was built over 5000 years ago but they do not agree about its function. Most people thick it is connected to the cult of the Sun. However it could also be an astrological observatory.

Compare the Neolithic and The Metal Ages

Read the pages 134-135-136-137 and make this table:

Characteristics	Neolithic	Metal Ages
Period
Where did they live?
What did they Eat?
Tools
Discoveries and Inventions
Beliefs and Art

Metal Ages

The Age of Metals

Prehistory art and Beliefs

	Paleolithic	Neolithic
Place	Cantabrian región and Pyrennes	South-east of Spain
Ages	Palaeolithic  ages 35.000	Neolithic ages +/- 6.000 b.C.
Colour	Polichrome	Monochrome
Téchnical	hands, brushes	hands, brushes
Style	Realistic	schematic
Theme	Big animals	scenes, small figures
Human figures?	No	yes

Beliefs

	Palaeolithic	Neolithic
Beliefs	They belief in natural forces like thunder and lightning and spirits	They belief in Natural forces like the Sun and the stars
Rituals	Rituals to ask the spirits for assistance Burials with valuable objects	Fertility cults, and buried clay fertility goddessesto ask a good harvest Necropolis where they buried with their personal object

Vocabulary. Unit 8

Homework:

•  You have to look for the meaning of these words and write them in english; 

You need to know these words and your meaning. I´m going to ask you.

Ice Age Homo Antecessor Neolithic Age Australopithecus Metal Age Homo Neanderthal Homo habilis Homo Sapiens Homo Erectus Atapuerca Fertility  cults Biface Stonehenge

Nomadic Peleolithic Art Neolithic Revolution Pottery Wheel Sail Plough Neolithic monuments Mehir Dolmens Stone Circles

The Neolithic Revolution