Презентация«Ancient civilisations»

Project work «Ancient civilisations»

Form 10

The aim of our project work

To find out what information pupils of our school know about ancient civilisations and tell them about the most popular ancient civilisations in history of humans.

What ancient civilisations do you know?

Form

Pupils

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Numbers of Ancient civilisations

13

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11

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A presentation about the Vikings

Vikings - early medieval Scandinavian sailors, in the VIII-XI centuries committed sea marches from Vinland to Biarmia and from the Caspian sea to North Africa. In most of these were free peasants who lived on the territory of modern Sweden, Denmark and Norway, which pushed beyond their native countries overcrowding and thirst for easy money.

The Vikings lived in large family groups. Children, fathers and grandfathers lived together. When the elder son came into the possession of the farm, he also became the head of the family and responsible for its welfare.

Peasant clothing Scandinavians IX-XI centuries was a long woolen shirts, short baggy pants, stockings and rectangular capes. The Vikings from the upper classes wore long pants, socks and a Cape in bright colors. In the course were woolen mittens and hats and fur hats and even felt hats.

Vikings fleet consisted mainly of warships and merchant ships. Warships and merchant vessels enabled men to go overseas countries, and migrants and researchers crossed the sea in search of new lands and wealth.

The most common type of weapons - spear length of about 150 see.

Also they had swords and battle-axes with a wide divergent blade.

As the ancient Germans earlier period, the Vikings to Christianity practiced traditional German-Scandinavian religion with regular sacrifices. Runic alphabet was.

The most significant decisions in Scandinavian society hosted a meeting of all free men - ting . The Vikings used and vendetta.

Ancient China

History of China

Ancient China  (also referred to as  Anchient  or  Anciente China  in earlier translations) is a very old civilization. People wrote about the history of China 3500 years ago. China is one of the world's oldest continuous (still alive) civilizations.

The Chinese have many ancient traditions and celebrations.

The dragon is a sign of good luck.

Architecture

the Great Wall of China The Grand Canal

Food and Beverages

One of the most popular beverages in ancient China was tea. Its invention is credited to the Zhou dynasty, according to Erya, an ancient Chinese dictionary. 

Jewelry

Both men and women wore jewelry. Men donned special badges to mark their ranks or social status, while women wore jewelry to look beautiful. 

The Danelaw

What is The Danelaw?

• The Danelaw was a kingdom in the Northeast of England ruled for about 70 years by Danish Vikings. It was recognized by the English in a treaty of 884, and ended in 954, when Eric Bloodaxe was driven out of England. The border separating England from the Danelaw was roughly a line from London to Chester.

How big was the Danelaw?

• The Danelaw roughly comprises 15 shires: Yorkshire, Five Boroughs of Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, Stamford and Lincoln, as well as Essex, the Kingdom of East Anglia shires of Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk, East Midlands shires of Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and Buckinghamshire; one third of the total area of the English kingdom at the time.

Legal aspects of the Danelaw

• The Danelaw established many equivalences in many areas of English law, including the settlement of murder and wrongful death cases, and the division and subdivision of land.

Who are the Vikings?

• The  Vikings  were seafaring north Germanic people who raided, traded, explored, and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia, and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th centuries. The Vikings employed wooden longships with wide, shallow-draft hulls, allowing navigation in rough seas or in shallow river waters.

Genetic heritage of the Danelaw

• In 2000 the BBC commissioned a genetic survey of the British Isles by a team from University College London led by Professor David Goldstein for its programme 'Blood of the Vikings'.

Historical drama “Vikings”

• Also, there is a good Canadian-Irish historical drama television series, written and created by Michael Hirst for the television channel History.  It premiered on March 3, 2013 in the United States and Canada.

Culture of ancient Rome

The culture of ancient Rome existed throughout the almost 1200-year history of the civilization of Ancient Rome. Life in ancient Rome revolved around the city of Rome, its famed seven hills, and its monumental architecture such as the Flavian Amphitheatre (now called the Colosseum), the Forum of Trajan, and the Pantheon. Throughout the territory under ancient Rome's control, residential architecture ranged from very modest houses to country villas, and in the capital city of Rome, there were imperial residences on the elegant Palatine Hill, from which the word palace is derived. Most Roman towns and cities had a forum, temples and the same type of buildings, on a smaller scale, as found in Rome.

Roman literature was from its very inception influenced heavily by Greek authors. Some of the earliest works we possess are of historical epics telling the early military history of Rome. As the Republic expanded, authors began to produce poetry, comedy, history, and tragedy. A great deal of the literary work produced by Roman authors in the early Republic was political or satirical in nature. The rhetorical works of Cicero, a self-distinguished linguist, translator, and philosopher, in particular, were popular. In addition, Cicero's personal letters are considered to be one of the best bodies of correspondence recorded in antiquity.

Music was not a part of everyday life in ancient Rome. Some of the instruments used in Roman tourture chamber are the Tuba, Cornu, Aulos, Askaules, Flute, Panpipes, Lyre, Lute, Cithara, Timpani, Auloi, Drums, Hydraulis and the Sistrum.

The architectural style of the capital city of ancient Rome was emulated by other urban centers under Roman control and influence, like the Verona Arena, Verona, Italy; Arch of Hadrian, Athens, Greece; Temple of Hadrian, Ephesos, Turkey; a Theatre at Orange, France; and at several other locations, for example, Lepcis Magna, located in Libya. Roman cities were well planned, efficiently managed and neatly maintained. Palaces, private dwellings and villas, were elaborately designed and town planning was comprehensive with provisions for different activities by the urban resident population, and for countless migratory population of travelers, traders and visitors passing through their cities.

Mesopotamia

Iraq

writing

THE CODE OF HAMMURABI

The Epic of Gilgamesh

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