Ancient Egypt

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Ancient Egypt

• One of the first great civilizations

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Life in Ancient Egypt

• Life centered around the Nile river
• Yearly floods brought nutrients to the soil
• The river was a main route of travel

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Social Pyramid of Egypt

• Pharaoh
• Upper Class
• Royal Family, Government Officials, Army
  Officers, Priests, Landowners, and Doctors
• Middle Class
• Merchants, Manufacturers, and Artisans
• Lower Class
• Unskilled Laborers and Farmers
• Slaves and Servants

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Egyptian Religion

• Polytheism
• About 2000
• gods goddesses
• Amon-Ra
• Osiris
• Horis
• Death and Funerals
• Three souls ka, ba, and akh
• Embalming
• Burial Tombs

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Union of Two Crowns

• Red Crown
• Upper Egypt
• White Crown
• Lower Egypt
• Menes
• Overthrew the king of Lower Egypt
• Wore a Double Crown
• Unification
• Joining of separate parts into one whole

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Egypts Economy

• Pharaoh was at the center of the economy
• Based upon Agriculture
• Pharaoh took taxes on the crops that were grown,
  and goods that were made
• Goods were bartered or traded for other needed
  goods

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A System of Writing

• Hieroglyphics
• Used to keep record
• Scribes
• Record keepers
• Original Accountants
• Papyrus
• Paper made from plants
• Rosetta Stone
• Transcribed Hieroglyphics, Greek, and Demotic

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Building the Pyramids

• Built as tombs for the Pharaohs
• Afterlife
• Housed everything needed for the Paraoh
• Khufus pyramid
• Total number of blocks
• 2,300,000
• One blocks average weight
• 2.5 tons
• Number of blocks added each day
• 285

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Children in Egypt

• RICH
• Children of Pharaoh
• swam in palace pools
• Learned their parents trade
• Spun tops, and played games

• POOR
• Swam in canals
• Worked alongside their parents
• Little time to play
• Daily chores

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Credits

• Websites
• http//www2.sptimes.com/Egypt/EgyptCredit.4.3.html
  
• http//www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml
• Text
• Banks, James A. , Gloria Contreras, Jean Craven,
  and Gloria Ladson-Billings. World Adventures in
  Time and Place. New York Mc Graw-Hill, 1999.