Egypt

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 * Located in Africa
 * Next to the nile river
 * Desert climate
 * Fertile soil/silt
 * Considered nile a God
 * Black land Vs. Red land
 * Flooding was predictable
 * Egypt was "Gift of nile"
 * __Comparisons To Messo.__**
 * Pharoahs were considered gods:Priests were kings and they were the go to guy for the Gods
 * Flooding Warfare: The desert cut off from warfare dindt have constant war like meso.
 * Messo=Zigarat
 * Egypt=Pyramids
 * __Enviromental Challenges__**
 * Flooding to much to little killed and destroyed and made people starve
 * Forced to live on a narrow strip of land (black land) surrounding the Nile.
 * Cut off interaction with other people- trade
 * Shut out invaders
 * Spared much acient warfare
 * Cataracts= Rapids caused by boulders in the water,Made it impossible for boats to pass
 * Boats on the nile
 * Traveled against the current used to sail
 * water highway promoted trade& unified villages
 * __Important people__**
 * Narmer - United upper and lower egypt !st dynasty established
 * Pharoahs were thought to be Gods
 * Theocracy- Government based on religion
 * Divided into upper and lower egypt
 * 31 dynasys
 * Pharoahs controlled nature
 * Pharoahs ruled after death
 * Pyaramids- final resting place/tomb
 * Power of pharoahs decline 2/80 B.C
 * Strong pharoahs regained control.
 * Hykas took over egypt
 * __Religion__**
 * Theocracy=government
 * Pyramids were burial grounds: tomb for the after life
 * Mumifacation= preserve bodys spirit will use body in after life
 * Worshiped 2000 Gods=polytheism
 * Weighed heart to see where you went for after life if it was lighter than a feather than it would go to a good after life if it weighed more than the feather than it got eatin by the heart eater
 * __After Life__**
 * Kings ruled after death
 * ka= life force
 * Pyramids/tombs of kings
 * mummification
 * embalming
 * book of dead
 * comparisons to Mesopotamia
 * In Mesopotamia the afterlife was a bad depressing place
 * __Technology__**
 * papyrus
 * calender keeps track of time inbetween the floods
 * calender-365 days
 * 12 months, 30 days each and five holidays
 * used star to calculate
 * developed a system of numbers for counting, adding or subtracting=business taxes
 * geometry- survey to reset property for boundaries (after floods)
 * math helped engineers/ architects to make pyramids
 * 1st to use stone columns
 * heart rate/pulse= set
 * broken bones- treated
 * wounds/ fevers-knew surgery
 * embalming
 * heiroglyphics= sacred carving
 * simple pictographs were earliest form of writing
 * picture stood for an idea not letters
 * then writing became more complex- pictures then stood for sounds
 * could almost be used like letters of the alphabet
 * 1st wrinting done on stone/ clay
 * invented new writing surfaces- papyrus (reeds-grows)
 * Rosetta Stone : how we learned to read heiroglyphics
 * __Social Class__**
 * 1) kings/ queens royal family
 * 2) wealthy land owners government officials
 * 3) middle class/ merchants and artisans
 * 4) lower class (largest groups) not locked in
 * 5) slaves, peasants, farmers, and laborers
 * __Architecture__**
 * ziggarat vs. pyramid
 * engineering feats
 * amazing builders
 * used stone, granite, limestone
 * link to governtment/orginizaton