torinegypt

Egypt Geography Location Challenges Economy War/Military/Defense Religion Social class Equality Technolgy Government Transportation After Life Writing
 * The Nile River runs through Egypt
 * Desert climate
 * Scarce to no water outside of the Nile
 * Plateaus and distant mountains
 * Nile produced silt
 * Nile River Delta
 * "Gift of the Nile"
 * West of the fertile crescent
 * Northeast Africa
 * Nile is 4,100 meters long
 * People traveled along Nile
 * Nile River Delta is Marshy
 * Triangular piece of land
 * People lived along the sides of the Nile
 * Black land vs. Red land
 * Flooding ran like clockwork
 * Flood waters were few feet lower than normal
 * Silt was reduced
 * Crops died (people starved)
 * when the floodwaters rose it destroyed houses, seed and garneries
 * Desert was their natural barrier
 * No comunication
 * Very few crops
 * Nothing to trade
 * Improved trading after transportation methods improved
 * Constant warfare over teh Nile River Delta
 * 1640 B.C. Hyksos (Rulers of Forgein Land)
 * Pharoh stood at base of religion
 * Pharoh's job was to producetruth and justice
 * Eternal life after death
 * Pharoh's were buried in pyramids with valuables to have good afterlife
 * 2000 gods and goddesses
 * Karma
 * Mummification
 * Many tests to determine your afterlife
 * Weigh heart to see if you go to the other world
 * Royal members was first
 * Landowners and wealthy family next
 * Govt officials, army, preists as well
 * Merchants, artisans next
 * Last were slaves, and pesants
 * Slavery was popular
 * Same rights as men, wealthy or merchant women could own property
 * Women could propose for marrige
 * Seek divorce
 * Women recieved one third of mans property
 * hieroglyphics
 * picture go the gist
 * papyrus
 * writing paper
 * developed calender
 * growing season
 * 365 days = 1 yr
 * 12 mths = 1 yr
 * 30 days = 1 mnth
 * math
 * 3200 B.C. 2 sides
 * upper and lower
 * Narmer was the first unified king
 * lower Egypt wore red crown
 * upper Egypt wore white crown
 * Narmer wore both crowns
 * history of dynasties spanned 2600 years
 * 31 dynasties
 * 2660 to 2180 (Old Kingdom)
 * had god kings (pharohs)
 * theocracy
 * religous set rules
 * powers of pharoh decline in 2180 B.C.
 * Hyksos took over around 1630 B.C.
 * Middle Kingdom 2040-1640 B.C
 * boated down and up the Nile
 * traveled the current with a sail
 * water highway
 * promoted trade
 * unified village
 * Kings ruled in afterlife
 * Ka = lifeforce
 * pyramids
 * tombs of kings
 * mummification
 * enbalming
 * book of the dead
 * Architechture
 * link to pharoh organization
 * pictures stood for idea
 * then writing became more complex
 * pictures stood for sound
 * could be related to the alphabet
 * Rosetta Stone
 * found in 1799
 * 3 languages
 * greek and 2 forms of hieroglphyics
 * used greek to decode them