Amanda+Egypt+Page

Amanda Home Page  __ Location __ __Geography__  __Economy/Agriculture__ <span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 130%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 150%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">__Time Period__ <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 150%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">__<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">Enviromental Challenges __ <span style="font-size: 130%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 150%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">__<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">War/Military/Defense __
 * <span style="color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">West of Meso.
 * <span style="color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Located in Africa
 * <span style="color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Nile River
 * <span style="color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Desert
 * <span style="color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Fertile Soil= Silt
 * <span style="color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Black Land vs. Red Land
 * <span style="color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Flooding- predictable, knew when it was going to flood- just didn't know how much
 * <span style="color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Considered the Nile as a God
 * <span style="color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Egypt was a "gift" of the Nile
 * <span style="color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Flows North because the mountians are in the South
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Nile runs North for 4,100 miles
 * <span style="font-size: 130%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Brings water to Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Ethiopia
 * <span style="font-size: 130%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Settlements along the Nile
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Floods=Silt
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">During winter, waterd the crops with irrigation ditches
 * <span style="font-size: 130%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Delta: Broad, marshy area of land formed by deposits of silt
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">3200B.C.- Villagers were under the rule of Upper and Lower Egypt
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Floods were regular as clockwork
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">A few feet higher or lower would cause starvation
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Lived on small portion of land, reduced interaction with people
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Too much water kills, too little starves
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Dessert: 1. Forced to live on a small strip of land (Black Land) surrounding the river 2. Cut off interaction with other people- trade
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Shut out invaders- spared much ancient warefare
 * <span style="font-size: 130%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Cataracts= rapids caused by boulders= impossible for boats to pass
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Desert= Natural barrier, shut out invaders

<span style="font-size: 150%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">__<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">Institutions __ <span style="font-size: 150%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"> __<span style="font-size: 110%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 120%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">Religion __ <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 120%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Pyramids= resting place after death
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Narmer= Wore both Upper and Lower Egypt
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Eternal life force- Ka
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Re- Sun god
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Osiris- god of dead
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Isis-   <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">  ideal mother and wife
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Mummification- Embalming and drying corpse to prevent decay
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Worshiped 200+ gods= polytheism
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Belief in afterlife
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Weigh heart to see if you go to other world or if you were eaten by the devourer of souls
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Spirit will use body in afterlife

<span style="font-size: 150%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">__<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">Architecture __ <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 150%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">__<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">Liturature __ <span style="font-size: 150%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">__<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">Social Class __
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Ziggarut vs. Pyramid
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Engineering feats
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Amazing builders
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Used stone, granite, and limestone
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Link to govt./ organization
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Book of the Dead- hymns, prayers, abd magic spells for afterlife
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Heiroglyphics- "sacred carvings," pictures stood for idea of men, then it stood for sounds and ideas
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> 1 (Top Layer)= King and Queen
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> 2 (Second Layer)= Priests, Army Commander, and Landowner
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> 3 (Third Layer)= Merchants and Artisans
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> 4 (Fourth Layer)= Peasant Farmers, Laborers (largest group)
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">5 (Fifth Layer)= Slaves for the rich people

<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 80%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 150%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">__<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">Equality (Women Rights) __
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 80%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Wealthy or Middle Class could own and trade property
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 80%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Propose marriage of seek divorce
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 120%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 80%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">If granted divorce, she would be entitled to 1/3 the couples property

<span style="font-size: 150%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">__<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">Technology __
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Papyus- form of paper made from reeds
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Calendar- to keep track of time between flood
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Numbers- counting, adding and subtracting
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Medicine- heart rate, broken bones and surgery
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Calendar- 365 days (12 months- 30 days + 5 holidays)
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Used star to calculate
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Developed a system of #'s for counting, adding and subtracting= business/taxes
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Geometry- survey and reset property
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Bounderies (afterflood)
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Math helped engineers and architects to make pyramids
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">1st to use stone colomns
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Medicine: could check heart rate/pulse- set broken bones- treat wounds/fevers- knew surgery- embalming

<span style="font-size: 150%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">__<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">Important People __
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Pharaohs- were believed to be the gods
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Narmer- united Upper and Lower Egypt= 1st dynasty established

<span style="font-size: 150%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">__<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">Government __
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Theocracy- govt.based on religion
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Pharaohs
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Thought of as gods
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Divided into Upper and Lower Egypt
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> 31 Dynasties
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Pharoahs controlled nature
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Pharaohs ruled after death
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Pyramids- final resting place
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Power of Pharaohs decline 2180 B.C.= end of Old Kingdom
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Middle Kingdon (2040-1640)
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Strong Pharaohs regained control
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Hyksos took over Egypt (1630-1523 B.C.)

<span style="font-size: 170%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">__Transportation__
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Boats on the Nile
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Traveled against the currant used to sail
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Water trade and unified villages

<span style="font-size: 170%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">__Comparisons to Meso__
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Flooding
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Warfare- Desert cut off from warfare- did not have constant war like in Meso
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Pharaohs- were considered Gods priests- Kings(meso)= go between to the gods (messangers)
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Architect: 1. Meso= Ziggarut- Town hall 2. Egypt= Pyramids- resting place for pharaoh, get ready to rule in afterlife

<span style="font-size: 170%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">__Afterlife__
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Ruled even after death
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Ka- eternal life force
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Pyramids/tombs of Kings
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Mummification
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Embalming
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Book of the Dead
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Comparison to Mesopotamia (afterlife a bad place)

<span style="font-size: 170%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">__Writing__ <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 170%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 50%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">    <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 170%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 50%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">
 * <span style="font-size: 170%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 50%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Heiroglyphics= sacred carvings
 * <span style="font-size: 170%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 50%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Simple pictographs were the earliest form of writing
 * <span style="font-size: 170%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 50%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Picture stood for an idea
 * <span style="font-size: 170%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 50%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Then when writing became more complex- picture stood for sounds
 * <span style="font-size: 170%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 50%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Could almostbe used like letters of the alphabet
 * <span style="font-size: 170%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 50%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">1st writing done on stone
 * <span style="font-size: 170%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 50%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Invented new writing surfaces- papyus (reeds and grass)
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 170%; color: #bb1ff9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 50%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #3093f8; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Rosetta Stone- found in 1799- 3 languages (greek and 2 forms of heiroglyphics used greed to decode heiroglyphics) *how we learned to read heiroglyphics