Ancient Egypt!

Today in class we started out talking about Egypt again. We will be having a test early next week on Egypt. We were looked at a prezi Mr. Schick made and we began to take notes.

Egypt Prezi:

-> Geography of Egypt:

• Centered around the Nile River. It was like their life and religion. South to North flowing. Next to Red Sea & Mediterranean Sea. The water comes from some mountains. 
• Nile is used for drinking, irrigating, and bathing. 
• Floods every JULY
• Every October it leaves behind rich soil. 
• Delta: wet, spongy triangular area of fertile silt. 
• To manage the river it required technological breakthroughs in irrigation along with breakthroughs with finding out time of day, month, year.

-> Pyramids:

• The Great Sphinx of Giza
• Built 2555- 2532 BC
• A recumbent lion with a human's head.
• It's the oldest monumental statue in the world. 
• 45 hundred years ago it was built & took decades to do
• Lions Body
• Head of a wise person

-> Daily Life:

• Rankings: 
• At the bottom, slaves and servants: helped the wealthy with the household and child raising. They were treated pretty nicely.
• Next there are farms: Raise wheat, barely, lentils, onions- benefited from irrigation of the Nile. 
• Then Artisans: carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes in the afterlife.
• Then Merchants: money/barter system was used. They might accept bags of grain for payment- later, coinage came about. Coinage is money. 
• Then Scribes:kept records, told stories, wrote poetry, described anatomy, and medical treatments. They wrote in hieroglyphs (Symbols & Pictures) and in hieratic (alphabet). 
• Then Soldiers: they used wooden weapons (bow & arrow, spears) w/ bronze tips and might ride chariots. 
• Then Gov. Officials - Nobles, Priests: upper class, know as the "White kilt class"- priests, physicians, engineers. 
• Lastly, Pharaohs: religious and political leader of the Egyptian people. They were like Kings and Queens. Highest ranking. The boss. Hold the titles: 'Lord of the Two Lands' and 'High Priest of Every Temple'. The chosen one. 

-> Pharaohs: 

• As 'Lord of the Two Lands' the pharaoh was the ruler of Upper and Lower Egypt. He owned all land.  
• Had fake beard things that showed their power. 
• religious and political leader of the Egyptian people. 
• They were like Kings and Queens. Highest ranking. The boss. 
• Hold the titles: 'Lord of the Two Lands' and 'High Priest of Every Temple'. The chosen one. 
• Hateshepsut was a woman who served as pharaoh. They thought she was pretty hott and wore the beard thing as well. It was a symbol of power
• It was rare for a woman to be a pharaoh.
• Cleopatra VII also served as pharaoh, but much later (51-30 B.C) 

-> Gods & Goddesses:

• Look up on your own. 
• Mythological