mhsEGYPT

AGhome -near Middle East -borders the Mediterranean -began around 3150 BC -large Nile River-fertile climate near river but no life elsewhere -west of fertile crescent -unpredictable flooding ocurred often and destroyed anything nearby -although the Egyptians had some form of telling when it could happen, they still needed to be located close enough to the river -rosetta stone had 3 languages -
 * Location: Northeastern Africa
 * Topography:Rough desert climate
 * [[image:604nile.jpg width="195" height="161" link="AG egyptfolio"]]
 * Religion&Government:Theocracy
 * -religion was of the utmost importance
 * -sun god Ra
 * -gods controlled the world and everything
 * Literature:Hieroglyphics
 * -artful picture to represent emotion and/or ideas
 * -first written in stone or clay
 * -then eventually bound plantleaves-language only known because of Rosetta Stone found in 1799-supposedly by Napoleans army.[[image:rosettaStone150.gif link="AG egyptfolio"]]