Egypt

• Geography
• Nile river
• water for drinking, irrigating, bathing, and for transportation
• every July it floods
• every October it leaves behind rich soil (silt)
• the delta is abroad, marshy triangular area of fertile silt.
• managing the river required technological break throws in irrigation.
• pyramids
• the great sphinx of Giza
• built 2555-2532 B.C.
• it is a lion with a humans head.
• oldest monumental statue in the world
• Daily life
• people had rankings with the pharaoh at the top of the pyramid, and slaves at the bottom.
• slaves and servants helped the wealthy
• farmers raised wheat, barely, lentils, and onions.
• benefited from irrigation of the Nile.
• Artisans carved statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes from the after life.
• money/barter system was used. (trade for grain).
• scribes kept records, told stories, wrote poetry, described anatomy, and medical treatments. (used hieroglyphics and hieratic).
• soldiers used wooden weapons (bows and weapons) with bronze tips. (bronze age)
• upper class - "white kilt class" (priests, physicians, engineers)
• pharaoh- religious and political leader.
• pharaohs
• "lord of two lands" or "high priest of every temple"
• owned all land, made law, collected taxes, defended Egypt
• Hatshepsut was a woman who was a pharaoh
• Cleopatra VII also had served as a pharaoh. (51-30 B.C.)
• Goddess and Gods
• over 2000 Gods and Goddesses
• they controlled the lives of the humans.