ANCIENT CIVILISATIONS

Ancient civilisations • Hona hemen egindako lana.

• We have learnt many interesting things about the topic.

• Algunas cosas interesantes sobre Civilizaciones Antiguas :EGIPTO ,ROMA O LA CIVILIZACIÓN MAYA.

Medicine

The egyptian doctors were very important in the comunity.

They knew a lot of things. For example: the heart pumps blood to the body, about the nervous systems.

They thought the brain was useless only the hearth was working.

The egyptian illnesses were caused by evil spirits entering in the body.

Medicine ROM E

They made the medicine with herbs and plants.

Many of the romans illness were caused by evil spirits entering in the body.

The pharmacist did the medicine.

They did the medicine chrushing and mixing with alcohol.

The Maya believed the Earth to be flat and four-cornered.

The Maya had at least 166 gods.

The Maya´s doctors were the gods of the Moon.

Many of Maya's illnesses were caused by evil spirits entering in the body.

One of the most used medicine was a hot, bitter drink made of ground cacao beans and quiet similar to chocolate used to cure diseases including diarrhoea and fatigue.

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ROMANS CLOTHES

Roman toga is a large piece of woollen cloth wrapped around the body.

The patrician ladies wore a stola.It is a large dress made of silk.They wore a Palla too.It was a long rectangular shawl.

They usually used make –up to whiten their faces. They painted their lips red and use a face cream made of crushed snails.

Men had simple short hairstyles but women had more elaborate hairstyles.

They curled their hair.

The warrior wore ornate eagle feather and hair dresses.

The Maya jewellery was made of jade, opal and obsidian.

The Maya clothes were made of vegetal fibres.

The meaning of the clothes in The Maya Civilisation was a person’s position in society and age.

These nowadays Yucatan women, direct descendants from the Maya are wearing the same clothes as ancient Maya women would have.

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Egyptian houses were made of mud bricks.

The difference between the rich people and the poor people´s houses was in how big they were and in the decoration.

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The streets were narrow, crowded, noisy and filthy.

Egyptian houses were several floors high because the river valley was so narrow, the desert started in few kilometres, and there was no much space for building.

ROMAN HOUSES

POOR PEOPLE´SHOUSES Poor people lived in apartament blocks.

Apartament blocks were several floor high, dirty and dark.

Poor people didn´t have toilets in their houses so they had to use a public toilet.

PATRICIAN´S HOUSES

They were called ``Domus´´.

They were comfortable and with many rooms.

They were made of stone or cement.

The interiors were decorated with beautiful pictures called frescoes, mosaics made of clay, glass or stones and all kinds of statues on marble or bronze.

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Most of the Maya lived in small villages surrounded by cornfields.

The villages consisted of houses, where an individual family lived.

The houses had thatched roofs and usually had just one room.

Maya village life recreated from nowadays Guatemalan villages.

These houses were used all for sleeping.

The houses were used only for sleep because they were very small.

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Daily housework was done outdoors in the central communal compound, a kind of primitive village square.

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EGYPTIAN FEASTING AND FUN

In rich Egyptians parties, there was a lot of food.

They enjoyed with music and dancing.

Musicians played harps, lyres and flutes.

Poor Egyptians relaxed at home with their families, telling stories and playing games.

Their favourite sport was hunting for birds.

ROME

ROMAN DIET Roman diet was based mostly on vegetables, cereals and simple meats.

Meals were prepared by the mother or by slaves.

ENTERTAINMENT They liked dancing girls and playing.

COLISSEUM The Coliseum was an enormous public entertainment centre that could seat 45,000 spectators.

The Romans gathered to watch bloody combats between gladiators and battles between men and wild animals.

CAMPUS Campus was a popular place. People used to play and to do exercise.

Young men got together there for racing, jumping, archery and boxing. After that they went to baths for relax.

CIRCUS MAXIMUS The Circus Maximus was another such centre and was used mostly for chariot racing and it could seat 250,000 people.

MAYA

Maya’s primary food were maize or corn.

The Maya complete their diet with lima because corn was very high in carbohydrates.

With this corn flour with lima they cooked a flat bread that in Spanish is called tortillas and tlixcali in the Mayan language.

Turkeys were American indigenous birds.

THE MAYABALL GAME It was a game of survival, of life and death for the players. They could break bones so players wore a sort of uniform to protect them. The winners of the game were treated as gods but the losers could be offered as a human sacrifice.

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FAMILY LIFE

EGYPT

The women run the family and had children

There wasn´t any different between boys and girls in Egypt

Only the rich people went to school because families have to pay.

They learn hieroglyphic script, maths, literature geography, languajes, religion astronomy, medicine, engineering, architecture‌

ROME

The family was an important part of the Roman life.

The chilldren began the school at the age of seven.

Boys and girls went together to school

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At the age of 11 finished the schools and only boys continued their education in secondary school and girls started to prepare for marriage.

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Most Roman families had slaves who did all the work in the house and had a very hard life.

School hours were only in the morning.

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The labour was divided acording to sexes: men worked in the corn fields and women prepared food, made clothes and took care of the family’s everyday needs.

The Maya civilization was never united under one governing body.

They were organized in independent city states.

Most of the population were farmers or workers.

Most of the children did not recieve an education