The Rescue of Abu Simbel

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Cultural Relics
UNIT 7
The Rescue of Abu Simbel (????????)
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The Seven Wonders of the world
The Taj Mahal
The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
The Romes Circular Open Theater
The Hanging Garden in Babylon
The Pyramid
The Great Wall
The Lighthouse of Alexander
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the Aswan High Dam / 3830 m / 111m
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control the waters of the Nile
produces electricity
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Abu Simbel
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Can you point out the place where Abu Simbel stay?
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DISCUSSION

• 1. Would it be necessary to move people from the
  village if the dam was built? Why?
• 2.Do you think it necessary to spend so much
  money on rescuing this temple?
• 3. In China, do we have some dam like this?

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If completed, the 24 billion Three Gorges Dam on
the Yangtze will be the largest hydroelectric dam
in the world. It would span nearly a mile across
and tower 575 feet above the worlds third
longest river. Its reservoir would stretch over
350 miles upstream and force the displacement of
close to 1.9 million people. Construction began
in 1994 and is scheduled for completion by 2009.
Three Gorges Dam
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problems
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Fill in the chart.
Temples and relics might be destroyed
Move the temple and relics to a safe place.
Residential areas and cultural relics will be
flooded. (Water will cover areas where people
live and may destroy cultural relics)
Build new houses in other places , and move the
people and the cultural relics to a safe place.
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Debate
Is it wise or not to build the three Gorges Dam?
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Three Gorges Dam
If completed, the 24 billion Three Gorges Dam on
the Yangtze will be the largest hydroelectric dam
in the world. It would span nearly a mile across
and tower 575 feet above the worlds third
longest river. Its reservoir would stretch over
350 miles upstream and force the displacement of
close to 1.9 million people. Construction began
in 1994 and is scheduled for completion by 2009.
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Flood
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Gap-filling
RamsesII Usermaatre Setepenre, son of king
Sethi I, was one of the ________ reigning
pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. He reigned 67years
(roughly from 1290- 1224BC.), in the beginning as
corgent with his father, and lived _______ more
than 80 years, _________ was rare in those days.
_________ his life he made quite a reputation
________ a builder and a warrior, but also as a
ladies man.
longest
for
which
During
as
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He had 5 or 6 main wives, with _______ about 100
children were born. People in Egypt often made
______ of this fact. Among his wives, he liked
Nefertari best. She is found accompanying the
king _____ many reliefs and statues. Her special
place _____ the kings side especially visible in
Abu Simbel, ______ she is not only represented on
the facade of the Great Temple itself, but where
she also had her own sanctuary, the so-called
Small Temple of Abu Simbel.
whom
fun
on
at
where