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 * //__Religion:__//**
 * Believes in multible gods
 * Anibus=god of afterworld and afterlife
 * Believe in afterlife
 * Priests were in higher social class
 * Gods controlled how well crops grew
 * Offerings were made to gods
 * believed on 2000+ gods


 * //__Geography:__//**
 * West of fery\tile cresent
 * Egypt, "gift of the Nile"
 * Black land and red land
 * Deserty
 * Floods, knew when but not how much
 * if it flooded too much then houses and seeds were destroyed
 * if there was too little then expected then people would starve
 * Nile floods once a year
 * Used rivers for trade
 * first cataract was the endpoint of trading


 * //__Technology:__//**
 * building pyramids
 * not use wheel
 * put sna on inclines to help bricks
 * made paper out of weeds
 * different forma of writing
 * sphynx- monument
 * calendar
 * boat sail --> go against currenht
 * mumifacation
 * circofagous---> for dead pharohs
 * irragation ditches
 * counting numbers
 * used limestone bricks
 * gold items
 * art
 * granite
 * rope
 * medicines
 * farming tools
 * columns
 * instruments
 * cosmetics
 * form of pregnacy test (wheat)

__//**Social Classes**//__
 * Kings/Queens (Royal families / dynasties)
 * Government officials
 * Middle Class /Merchants
 * Lower Class
 * Slaves

- forced to live on a small strip of land (black land) surrounding the river - cut off interation with other peeps (people-trade - shut out invaders- spared much ancient warfare - cararacts= rapids caused by boulders- impossible for boats to pass
 * //__Environmental challenges__//**
 * Flooding= too much -> kills/ too little -> starve
 * Desert


 * //__Transportation:__//**
 * boats on the Nile
 * traveled against the current used sail
 * water highway promoted trade and unified villigers


 * //__Important people:__//**
 * Narmer- united upper and lower Egypt, established 1st dynasty


 * //__Gowernment:__//**
 * pharoahs- thought as gods
 * theocracy= government based on religion
 * divided into upper/lower Egypt
 * 31 dynasty
 * pharoahs controlled nature
 * pharoahs rulled after death
 * pyramids- final resting place
 * power of pharoahs decline 2180 B.C. --> end of old kingdom
 * Middle kingdom (2040-1640 B.C.)
 * strong pharoahs regained control
 * hykas took over Egypt (1630-1523 B.C.)


 * //__Afterlife:__//**
 * kings ruled even after death
 * ka = spirit
 * pyramids/tombs of kings
 * mummifacation
 * embalming
 * Book of the death
 * comparison to mesopatamia (Afterlife bad place)

---amazing builders ---used stone, granite, limestone ---link to government/organization
 * //__Architecture:__//**
 * ziggarut v.s. pyramid
 * engineering facts


 * //__Writing:__//**
 * hicroglyphics= sacred carving
 * simple pictographs were the earliest form of writing
 * picture stood for an idea
 * then writing became more complex- pictures stood for sounds
 * Could almost be used like letters in the alphabet
 * 1st writing done on stone/clay
 * invented new writing furface- papyrus (creeds/grass)
 * Rosetta stone- found in 1799- 3 languages, (greek an 2 kinds of hieroglyphics, used greek to decode hieroglphics)


 * //__Time Period:__//**
 * 5000 B.C.= lived in farming villages
 * 3200 B.C.= under rule of seperate gods
 * 3000 B.C.= unifacation of Egypt
 * 3200-2700 B.C.= Great civilization set
 * 2660-2180 B.C.= Old kingdom