Egyptian Times

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Egyptian Times

• By Jamie Lewis
• Byron Gathers

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Social Accomplishments

• The Egyptians had many social accomplishments.
  They were not equally treated but were placed
  into classes regarding their social life. They
  called this their Cast System. The System went
  like a pyramid. At the bottom of the pyramid is
  where they people get the worst treatment and at
  the peek of it is where they get treated royal.
  The chart shows that the Pharaohs are the top of
  the top and the is the high of the high.

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Cultural Accomplishments

• The Egyptians had many ways that related to their
  culture. Their culture included recreation and
• entertainment, food, housing, and fashion.
• The Egyptians did many things for recreation and
  entertainment. Some things they did were hunting
  (favorite thing to do for men and they hunted in
  the desert because they didnt have a lot of
  forest.) The kids liked to do gymnastics, leap
  frog, tug-a-war, and wrestling.
• The Egyptians were big on dressing up with lots
  of jewelry to display. Gold was their favorite.

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Cultural Continue

• The housing that they lived in was made out of
  sun dried bricks. They would pay peasants to take
  mud from the Nile river and sit it to dry into
  brick and then they would build the house. And
  they mad cellars to store crops.
• The houses weren't huge but not small neither.
  The rooms were dark with narrow windows and low
  ceilings. They were built by the Nile river for
  the water supply and close together for its
  strength and security.

• The Egyptians fashions were simple. They wore
  clothes that were simple and light for coolness
  and the children wore nothing.
• Men wore kilts wrapped around their waist.
• In the middle age kilts changed and became
  straight and longer. It was made of un-dyed
  linen. The Patterns started.
• In the old kingdom women wore a simple tube
  dress, made from rectangle of linen sewn down
  only one side, some with straps attached to the
  edge of the dress.

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Historical Legacy

• The Egyptians were the first people to believe in
  life after death.
• They were the first to build in stone the arch
  stone in brick.
• Even before the unification of the two lands, the
  Egyptians had developed a plow and a system of
  writing.
• They were sailors and ship builders.
• They learned to chart the heavens in order to
  predict the Nile flood.
• There physicians prescribed healing remedies and
  performed surgical operations.
• They sculpted in stone and decorated the walls of
  their tombs with naturalistic murals in vibrant
  colors.

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Religion

• Religion provided a sense of security and
  timelessness for Egyptians.
• The Egyptian religion was based on polytheism, or
  the worship of many gods. The had as many as 2000
  gods and goddesses. Often the gods and goddesses
  were represented as part human and part animal.
• The temples were considered dwelling places for
  gods. Each city had a temple built for the god of
  their city, which made them everywhere.
• The purpose of the temples was to be a cosmic
  center by which men had communication with the
  gods.
• The Egyptians saw death as a transitional stage
  in the progress to a better life. Each person was
  thought to have three souls.

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Technology

• Tools-The Egyptians changed from copper to bronze
  tools because they were better to work with. By
  200 B.C. they changed form bronze to iron tools.
  With these they built great monuments and
  palaces.
• Calendars-The calendars had held ten days a week,
  three weeks in a month, four months in a season,
  three seasons in a year, and five holy days. That
  adds up to a 365-day year. They were the first to
  come up with the 365-day year.
• Clocks-They had two types of clocks. A water
  clock and a sundial. A water clock would consists
  of two pots. They would drill a small circle and
  let the water flow from one pot to the other. The
  sundial was basically a circle with number with a
  stick in the middle. When the stick fell at a
  number, it was that time.

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Governmental Influence

• Before Upper and Lower Egypt was united, each
  area was ruled by a king.
• In 3100 B.C., Menes the king of Upper Egypt,
  united the two halves of the country.
• The united country was divided into 40 regions.
• There was a governor for each region.
• Each governor had to obey the pharaoh, who was
  in control over all the people because he was the
  highest person in the land.
• Pharaohs wore double crowns to represent Upper
  and Lower Egypt.
• The pharaohs made Egypt a rich and powerful
  nation.

• Egypt had one of the first organized governments.
  
• Scribes kept the government running by keeping
  records.
• Farmers had to give 3/5 of crops to the pharaoh
  as tax.
• Pharaohs were able to draw a salary for
  themselves.

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Conflicts

• 1786 BC The Middle Kingdom ended and a series of
  weak rulers led Egypt.
• 1670 BC Settlers from Asia seized control of
  Egypt. These immigrants used unknown items to the
  Egyptians such as horse-drawn chariots, improved
  bows, and other tools of war. These immigrants
  were called the Hyksos. They ruled Egypt for
  about 100 years.
• 332 BC Alexander The Great conquered Egypt and
  added it to his empire.
• 37 BC Queen Cleopatra VII of the Ptolemies
  married Mark Antony a ruler of the Roman Empire.
  The two of them led forces against Octavian
  another co-ruler of Rome.
• 31 BC Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra in
  the Battle of Actium.
• 395 AD The Roman Empire split into eastern and
  western parts causing their control over Egypt to
  weaken.

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Economy

• Egypts economy was based on Agriculture and
  Trade.
• They domesticated animals for food, fur, and
  labor.
• They created a paper from the papyrus plant which
  they were able to trade.

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