Ancient Egypt

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Ancient Egypt

• Essential Question How important was the Nile
  River to the survival of Ancient Egypt?
• August 30, 2006

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Warm up

• Look at the art transparency shown under the
  document camera.
• On your warm up sheet, write your own
  interpretation of what you think is happening in
  it.
• We will discuss your ideas in 7 minutes.

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Geography of Ancient Egypt

• The Nile River is the source of life for Ancient
  Egypt.
• Yearly floods brought silt to grow crops.
• The Nile united Upper and Lower Egypt through
  trade.
• Egypt has natural barriers to protect it from
  invaders, such as Libyan Desert, Nubian Desert,
  Red Sea, and Mediterranean Sea.

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Ancient Egypt Map
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Religion

• Egyptians were polytheistic. Sun god-Amon Re,
  God of the Nile-Osiris.
• They believed in the afterlife.
• To ensure a prosperous and happy life after
  death, tombs were prepared to house the dead.
• To preserve the body, mummification was practiced.

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Writing

• The Egyptian system of writing is called
  hieroglyphics. The first used pictograms to
  write and later adopted ideograms.
• The Egyptians also added symbols for sounds.
• First, writings were done on stone or wood.
  Later, papyrus paper was used.
• The Rosetta Stone enabled us to decipher
  hieroglyphics.

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Rosetta StoneWritten in hieroglyphics, demotic,
and Greek.Deciphered by Jean Francois
Champollion.