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Religion: After LIfe:
 * Type of government was theocracy
 * Pryamids were the burial ground or tomb for the after life.
 * Mummifcation is the perserve of body's spirit which will use the body in the afterlife.
 * They worship over 2000 Gods which is known as polythesis
 * Some gods they had was Re, Osris, Isis, and Amnubis
 * They strongly believed in the afterlife.
 * They would weigh the dead body's heart to see if you would go to the others worlds ( like heavan ) or you were eaten by the devour of souls if your heart weighed more than a feather.
 * Kings ruled even after death
 * life force was KA
 * There were many pryamids fulled with dead bodys
 * The Kind and Queen got there own pryamid
 * They had Mummifcation to prevserve the body's spirit
 * They did emballing
 * Egyptians had a book of the dead. They used it a lot.
 * Mesopotamia and Egypt Comparison: there after life was very loaded with nice and fun things

Social Class: Architecture: Writing:
 * 1) Kings and Queens and the royal family
 * 2) Wealthy landowners, government officals, presist, and army commanders
 * 3) Middle class (merchants, artisians)
 * 4) Lower Class (largest group of all of them)
 * 5) Slaves (labor from war) for rich/goldmines (this group consisted of peasants, farmers, laborers
 * Engineering feats
 * They were amazing buliders
 * THey used stone, grante, and lime stone
 * LInked to government and organziation.
 * Pryamid:
 * Ziggarut
 * Scared Craving was called hieroglyphics
 * They were simple pictographs which were known as the earliest form of writing
 * Each picture stood fro an idea
 * There writing became more complex. Pictures started standing for sounds too
 * They could also linked teh pictures to the letters of the aphlabet
 * It was the first writing done on stone (and clay)
 * They invented a new writing surface called papyrus (grass or weeds sowned together)
 * Rosetta Stone was also use.
 * Found in 1799 - three languages (greek and 2 forms of hieroglyphics were use to with greek to decode the hieroglyphics.)
 * *how we learned to hieroglypihics*

Technololgy: Important People Government: Transportation: Geography: Comparisons to Mesopotamia: Enviromental Challenges:
 * Papyrus
 * They made a calender to keep track of the time between floods
 * Calender had ( 365 days) (12 months) (30 days) and five holidays
 * Used stars to calcuate
 * Devolped a system of numbers (for counting, subtracting, adding)
 * They used this for business and taxes
 * Gemorty was devolped too
 * Math helped engineers and architects to make pryamids
 * 1rst to use stone columns
 * Medince was very important to them. Could check heart rate/pulse rate
 * Also could heal broken bones
 * Wounds and fevers- they knew surgereys
 * Embalming
 * Narmer
 * United upper and lower egypt
 * Pharaohs
 * They were thought of as gods
 * There government type was theocracy ( gov. based on religion )
 * Divided inot upper and lower egypt
 * Had 31 dynasties
 * Pharaohs contolled all nature
 * Pharaohs even ruled after death
 * Pryamids were there final resting place
 * Power of the pharaohs declined in 2180 BC
 * It was the end of the kingdom
 * Dynasty is when the crown is passed down from generation to generation
 * Stong pharaohs regained control sometimes
 * Hyksas took over egypt ( 1630-1523 B.C. )
 * They would use boats on the nile
 * They came up with the sail to travel against the current using the wind around them
 * Water highway promoted trade & Unified villages
 * Located in Africa
 * Nile River is found in Egypt
 * Tons of dessert land
 * Had fertile soil though known as silt
 * Black land vs. Red land
 * Flooding predictable
 * They knew around the time it was going to flood
 * Also knew how much
 * Consider the Nile like a god
 * Egypt was a gift to the nile
 * They both had flooding
 * Warfare- dessert cut of from warfare
 * Did not have constant warfare like in Mesopotamia though
 * Pharaohs were considered like Kings and Queens
 * Both were Architects
 * Meso => Zigguart
 * Egypt => Pryamids
 * Flooding was always bad
 * Either it was to little or too much
 * Dessert
 * Forced to live on a small shape of land (Black) surrounding the river
 * Cut off interaction without other people ( involed trading with one another )
 * Spared much ancient warfare
 * Cataracts => rapids caused by bondlers => impossible for boats to pass