KBegypt

Home Page __ Geography __: Kept bodies in a tomb and would leave cosmetics, food, jewelry, and sometimes people and animals to use in the afterlife. Rulers still ruled even after death, in the afterlife.    Ka= spirit    Pyramids/ tombs of the kings.    Mummification- to preserve the body for afterlife.    Embalming- to preserve a body to come back from the dead.    Book of the dead (book with spells, prayers, hyms, a guide to the afterlife.      Compare Mesopotamia to afterlife (afterlife was a bad place, but was a good place for Egypt. __ Religion: __    Theocracy= gort    Pyramids= Burial grounds for afterlife    Mummification= Preserve bodies, spirit will use body in afterlife.    Worshipped 2000+ gods.    Re,Osiris,Isis,Annubis    Believed in afterlife.    Weigh hearts to see if you were to go to the otherworld or if your heart was heavier then a feather you would be devoured.



__ Architecture: __    Ziggurat vs. pyramid    Engineering feats- amazing builders    Used stone, granite, limestone. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   Link to government/org, needed government to organize (civilized)

__Social Class:__ <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   1.Kings/queens, Royal family <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   2. Wealthy landowners, government officials, priests, army commanders. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   3.Middle class, merchants/artisans <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   4.Lowerclass, peasants, farmers, laborers, (largest group) <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   5. Slaves, labor from wars, for the rich, gold mining. __ Writing: __ <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   Hieroglyphics= sacred carving <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   Simple pictographs were the earliest form of writing <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   Picture stood for idea. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   Then writing became more complex- pictures stood for sound. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   Could almost be like letters of the alphabet. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   1st writing done on stone/clay. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   Invented new writing surface, papyrus (reeds-grass) <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   Rosetta Stone- Found in 1799-3 languages. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   (Greek and 2 forms of hieroglyphics) Used Greek to decode hieroglyphics. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   *How we learned to read hieroglyphics. __ Technology: __ <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   Papyrus <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   Calendar-kept track of time between floods. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   Calender-365 days (12 months,30 days,5 holidays) <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   Used star to calculate <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   Developed a system of numbers for counting, adding, and subtracting, = business/taxes. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   Geometry, survey, and reset property boundaries after floods. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   Math helped engineers/architects to make pyramids. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   1st to use stone columns. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   Medicine: Could check heart rate/ pulse- set broken bones-treat wounds/ fevers- knew surgery <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">   Embalming