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• Egyptian Religion (ISN 79)
• Worship of many gods
• Enemies, sickness, evil spirits, forces of nature
• Feed and protect the gods, keep everything in
  proper order

Anubis prepared bodies for afterlife
Osiris god of the underworld
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• Old Kingdom
• 2700 - 2200 B.C.E.
• strong central govt
• Age of Pyramids
• Middle Kingdom
• 2000 - 1800 B.C.E.
• literature, art, and architecture
• Period of Reunification
• New Kingdom
• 1600 - 1100 B.C.E.
• peace, stability, height of power
• increased trade, built huge monuments
• Golden Age
• Pharaoh
• supreme ruler king, general, religious leader

Egypt Notes (ISN 73)
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Ch. 8 The Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs
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Nile River Tour
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The Great Pyramid at Giza Pharaoh Khufu

• The Great Pyramid at Giza
• Tomb
• 2 million stone blocks (Each weigh as much as a
  pick up truck!)
• 20 years
• Pharaoh Khufu - Old Kingdom
• Pharaoh was central authority
• Declared himself a god
• Organized fed thousands of workers

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The White Chapel Senusret I

• Pharaoh Senusret I - Middle Kingdom
• Craftspeople made jewelry
• Literature
• Religious architecture
• White Chapel

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Hatshepsuts Temple at Dayr al-Bahri

• Pharaoh Hatshepsut - New Kingdom
• First female pharaoh
• Promoted trade
• Temple decorated with carvings of trade voyage to
  kingdom of Punt

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Great Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel

• Pharaoh Ramses II - New Kingdom
• Ramses the Great
• Reigned for 60 years, 100 wives, 100 children
• Captain of army at 10
• Signed worlds first peace treaty
• Temple moved in 1960s