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?
VIZIER
High Priests / Nobles
Doctors, 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
Egyptian Theocracy:
Major Gods
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
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’
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 theocracy
1. 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?
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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?
1. Why are they
making these
sacrifices?
1. Why do they
stop?
2. 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 Diagram
Mayan
traits
Same
Egyptian
traits
Different:
1.
2.
3.
religious
beliefs?
Who holds
control?
What was
life like
Different:
1.
2.
3.
religious
beliefs?
Who holds
control?
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
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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
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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
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•
•
Poster
Summary
Current event summary
Sources
Today’s Agenda
• Project Presentations
• You will share
• Paragraph 3 of your summary
• Your current event summary
Quiz Monday**
• You will hand in
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•
Poster
theocracy summary
Current event summary
sources
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 it
o
•
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 following
1. 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?