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Geography

• Egyptian life is centered around the Nile River
• The Nile River start from south to North
• water for drinking, irrigation, bathing and transportation
• every July it floods
• every October it leaves behind rich soil 
• the delta is a broad, marshy triangular area of fertile silt
• managing the river required technological breakingthroughs in irrigation

Pyramids

• the Great sphinx of Giza 
• built 1555 - 2532 B.C
• a recumbent lion with a human's head
• the oldest monumental statue in the world

Daily life

• Pharaoh 
• Government official Nobles Priests
• Soldiers
• Scribes 
• Merchants - use money/barter system - merchants might accept bags of grain for payment - later coinage came about
• Artisans - would carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes in the afterlife 
• Farmers - raised wheat, barley, lentils, onions - benitted from irrigation of the Nile
• Slaves and Servants - help the wealthy with household and ehildraisisg duties