geography
-life is centered around the Nile River
- water for drinking, irrigating, bathing, transportation
- floods every july
- every october it leaves rich soil
- delta is a broad, marshy triangular area of fertile soil
- managing rover required technological breakthroughs in irrigation
Pyramids
- Great Sphinx of Giza (built 2555-2532 BC)
- a recumbent lion with human head
- oldest monumental statue in the world
Daily Life
1. Pharaoh
2. gov officials, nobles, priests
3. soldiers (weapons, bow/arrow, ride chariots)
4. scribes (keep records, stories, poetry, described anatomy/medical stuff, wrote in hieroglyphs/hieratic)
5. merchants
6. artisans
7. farmers
8. slaves/servants
- people raised wheat, barley, lentils onions
- artisans carve statues showing battles/scenes from afterlife
- money/barter system was used (trade grain, coins, etc)
one upper class=White Kilt Class (priests, physisians, engineers)
Pharaohs
- political/religious leader of Egytipan people
- owned all land, made laws, controlled taxes
Hatshepsut=woman pharaoh
Cleopatra VII= woman pharaoh (51-30 BC)
Gods/Goddesses
- over 2000 of them
- "controlled" human lives
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