Nile
- Egyptian live is centered around the Nile River
- South to North
- Flood every July
- leave behind rich soil every October
- Egyptian used water in Nile River for bathing, drinking, irrigation and transportation
- managing river required technological breakthrough in irrigation
- upper land was a 500 mile long strip fertile land along Nile
- lower land was a wide land of the Nile delta, emptying into the Mediterranean sea
- the Nile was the major provider of life for Egyptian, was revered in lore and writing.
- around 3100 B.C. two land were united under a single king or "pharaoh"
Pyramid
- top of it - pharaoh
- bottom of it - servants and slaves (their job is to help wealthy with household and child raising duties)
- The Great Sphinx of Giza, built 2555 - 2532 B.C, lion body with a human head, the oldest monumental statue in the world
- in a pyramid, top to bottom are:
- pharaoh, political and religious leader of Egyptians
- government officials, upper class(know as "white kilt class")priests, engineers, physicians, religious and political leader
- soldiers, used wooden weapons, might ride chariots
- scribes,kept record, told stories, wrote poetry, described anatomy and medical treatment. they wrote in hieloglyphs and in hieratic
- merchants, might accept grain as payment, later, coinage came about.
- artisans, carve statue and relief showing military battles and scenes in the afterlife
- farmers, raised wheat, onion, barley, lentils, benefited form irrigation of Nile
- slaves and secants - their job is to help wealthy with household and child raising duties
Gods and Goddesses
- over 2000 Gods and Goddesses
- they "controlled" the lives of humans
Government by a God - king
- pharaoh was all powerful and worshipped as a God and intimately connected with other God and Goddesses.
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