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 * __GEOGRAPHY__**

__**RELIGION**__
 * Located in Africa
 * Nile River
 * Desert
 * Fertile Soil - Silt
 * Red land vs. Black land
 * Flooding - predictable flooding
 * Considered Nile to be a God
 * Egypt was a "Gift of the Nile"
 * __COMPARISONS TO MESOPOTAMIA__**
 * Flooding
 * Constant Warfare
 * __ENVIORMENTAL CHALLENGES__**
 * Flooding - too much or too little
 * Desert forced people to live on a small strip of land
 * Cut off from interaction with other people
 * Cateracts - Rapids caused by boulders
 * Impossible for boats to pass
 * __TRANSPORTATION__**
 * Boats on the Nile
 * Traveled against the current, (with a sail)
 * Water Highway - promoted trade and unified villages
 * __GOVERNMENT__**
 * Pharaohs thought to be gods
 * Theography - Goverment ruled by the gods
 * divided into upper and lower Egypt
 * 31 dynasties
 * Pharaohs controlled nature
 * Pharaohs ruled after death
 * Pyramids - final resting place for the gods
 * Power of Pharaohs decline 2180 B.C.
 * Middle Kingdom 2040-1640 B.C. Pharaohs return
 * Hyksas took over Egypt 1630-1523 B.C.
 * Theocracy
 * Pyramids - Bureal
 * mummifications preserved bodies
 * Worshiped 200+ gods
 * Weighed the heart to see if you went to the beautiful other world
 * __AFTERLIFE__**
 * Kings ruled even after death
 * Ka
 * Pyramids/Tombs of Kings
 * Mummification
 * Embalming
 * Book of Dead
 * __ARCHITECTURE__**
 * Zigguraut vs. Pyramid - both places for dead
 * Engineering feats - amazing builders, stone, granite, lime stone
 * __SOCIAL CLASS__**
 * Kings/Queens, royal families, wealthy landowners, gvmt. officials, priests, and Army commanders Upper Class
 * Merchants and Artisans Middle Class
 * Peasents, Farmers, and Laborers Lower Class
 * __WRITING__**
 * Hieroglyphics= Sacred Writing
 * Simple Pictographs where the earliest form of writing
 * Writing became more complex ex. pictures stood for sounds
 * Could almost be used like letters of the alphabet
 * 1st writing done on stone
 * Invented new writing surface Papyrus
 * Rosetta Stone - Found in 1799 - 3 languages on it
 * Greek - 2 forms of Hieroglyphics
 * Used Greek to decode Hieroglyphics
 * __TECHNOLOGY__**
 * Papyrus
 * Calender - kept track of floods
 * Calender - 365 days - 12 months - 30 days
 * Used stars to calculate
 * Used number system, adding and subtracting, Geometry to help
 * Embalming