Social Science | Praxis Social Studies | Ancient Civilizations | Kathleen Jasper

Are you trying to pass your Social Studies Exam? Well then you will need a basic understanding of ancient civilizations. You’ll see questions about ancient civilizations on most social studies exams from grades 3-12.

In this video, you'll learn exactly where ancient civilizations originated, what they contributed to today’s societies, and other important details, so you'll be prepared for your social studies test.

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This was helpful! I will be obtaining my teacher certification, via the Alternative Route, and planning to take the Social Studies Praxis in February 2022. The World Civilization and Economics (least fave topics for the exam-probably why) are the worst for me! This helped so much:) Sending thanks from New Jersey!

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[kemetnubiakamp]

Primary and secondary schools aren't teaching about Ancient Egyptian's government, agriculture, musicians, sports, nor about any of its medical or mathematical papyri. All the evidence is Kemet (Ancient Egypt) is older than Mesopotamia - since Hammurabi's Code falls smack in the middle of Kemet's New Kingdom - and its origins are further south into Kush just as the Classic Greek writers wrote as their origins.

Kemet/Ancient Egypt had the oldest writing, government, and agricultural/pastoral society. The Nswt (Pharaoh) co-ruled with one wife often times but under the Nswt was the vizier, the civilization was divided into 42 sepat (nommes or regional municipalties) with each of these having the equivalent of a governor and having cities within them that had the equivency of mayors. So for instance, the famous strike of miners' during Ramses III's reign; those workers actualy made demands on the equivalent position of the mayor of their city before returning to work after the settlement with the mayor.

Kemet's government is older than Narmer's unification given that there are named Nswt (pharaohs) before Narmer such as the movie-famed Scorpion King (Abydos Tomb U-J) whose predynastic tomb had writings labeling products of his tomb older than cuneiform but the fact that his tomb had municipal labled prepared bread, wine, and fruit indicates a productive society with accounting. The predynastic tomb dates conservatively to 3300 BCE. Neither Rome nor Greece is a contemporary civilization to Kemet (Ancient Egypt) or "Mesopotamia" (Persians, Assyrians, Akkadians, Sumerians). We know this because the Greeks begin writing about Kemet by 425 BCE (Herodotus) and that's just a 100 years shy of Kemet (Ancient Egypt) being conquered by Ancient Greece that hasn't even reached its apex yet. However, Kemet at this time had already been conquered by Persians.

All this information is readily available from university and museum sources. They pyramids themselves could not be built by un organzied/ungoverned labor nor without geological or geographic mathematical knowledge. I don't know why so little is being taught at the secondary level.