1. geography
2. daily life
3. pharaohs
4. gods/goddesses
5. pyramids
geography:
- Egyptian life centered around the Nile
- water for drinking, irrigating crops, bathing and transportation
- every July it floods
- every October it leaves behind fresh soil
- managing the river required technological breakthroughs in irrigation
- the delta- is a broad, marshy triangular area of fertile soil
pyramids
the great Sphinx of Giza
- built 2555-2532 BCE
- a recumbent lion with a humans head
- oldest monumental statue in the world
daily life
- hierarchy
pharaoh
gov. officials- nobles/ priests
soldiers
scribes
merchants
artisans
farmers
slaves
slaves: helped the wealthy with household and child raising work
farmers: raised wheat, barley, lentils, onions, from irrigating Nile
artisans: would carve statues
merchants: bargain for people/ would accept bags of grain until coins came about
scribes: kept records, told stories, wrote poetry, were in charge of writing medical/ anatomy books
- wrote in hieroglyphs
soldiers: used wooden weapons with bronze tips and might ride chariots
upper class: (white kilt class), priests, physicians, engineers
religious/ political leader (pharaoh)- "lord of two lands"- owned all land, (upper and lower Egypt) in charge of military, "high priest of every temple"
Hatshepsut- served as pharaoh
Cleopatra VII- 51-30 BC last pharaoh
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