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ayla's homepage.!?  EGYPT GEOGRAPHY:
 *  Highlands of East Africa - Mediterranean Sea
 * Nile river flows northward across for over 4,100 miles
 * Mountains, plateaus, & lakes
 * Black land (fertile soil) & red land (desert)
 * Yearly flooding brought water and rich soil
 * Fertile soil = silt
 * Wheat & barley fields
 * Blammed everything in nature on the gods
 * Located on the continent Africa
 * Nile is Egypt's major river
 * High elevation

ENVIORNMENTAL CHALLENGES:
 *  Flooding destroyed houses, graineries & seeds farmers needed for planting
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Flodding - too much/too little (starve)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Desert: forced to live on a small strip of land (black land) surrounding the river.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Cut off interaction with other people - trade
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Delta: marshy triangle area of land formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of the river

<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">TIME PERIOD:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">5,000 B.C. - lived in farming villages
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">3,200 B.C. - under rule of separate gods
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">3,000 B.C. - unification of Egypt
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">3,200 - 2,700 B.C. - great civilization
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">2,660 - 2,180 B.C. - old kingdom

<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">LOCATION:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Highlands of East Africa to the Mediterraniean Sea

<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">RELIGION:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Believed in the after life
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">King - pharaoh
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Polytheistic (belief in multiple gods)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">full responsibility of kingdom's well-being

<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">GOVERNMENT:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> Theocracy ( a form of state political organization in which the government is based on religious offices)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">based on religious authority

<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">LITERATURE:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">"Book of the Dead" (guides souls in the after life)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">The "Book of the Dead" is filled with hymns, prayers & magic spells

<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">IMPORTANT PEOPLE:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Pharaohs, kings & gods

<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">ECONOMY:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Floods = silt
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Settlements along the Nile
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Watered crops with irrigation ditches
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Delta: broad, marsh are of land formed by deposits of silt

<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">DEFENSE:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Desert = natural barriers (shut out invaders)

<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">INSTITUTION:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Pyramids = resting place after death

<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">ARCHITECTURE:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> Pyramids, stone cat & temples <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">[[image:egypt-giza-sphinx.jpg width="426" height="350" align="left" link="ayla"]]

<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">SOCIAL CLASS:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> TOP: King / Queen
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">SECOND: Priest / land owners / commanders
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">THIRD: Merchants / artisans
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">BOTTOM: Farmers / laborers

<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">EQUALITY:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Wealthy / middle class could own / trade property
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Propose marriage
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Seek divorce
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">If granted divorce, 1/3 of couples property