Land of the Pharaos: Egypt

• Egyptian civilization was more stable than the Mesopotamian civilizations.
• The Narmer Palette was used for grinding make up for divine images in an upper Egyptian temple in about 3100B.C.
• Ancient Egypt grew up in a thin strip of fertile land where the Nile flows across the north African desert.
• Egypt was divided into "two lands", upper and lower Egypt. upper Egypt is a narrow strip of fertile land, it stretches alongside the river as it crosses the north African desert. Lower Egypt is many water ways that spread apart for the last 100 miles before it reaches the sea.
• Pharaohs, the rulers of ancient Egypt, were like the kings of Egypt.
• the Egyptians were polytheistic.
• "For the Egyptians, the pharaoh was to be obeyed as a man given power by the gods and venerated as a god who dwelt among men."
• Maat is universal stability and harmony.
• the sun god was the king of all of the other gods and goddesses.
• Hatshepsut was a women pharaoh that resigned at about 1500 B.C. Her name was erased off monuments, because she was a female pharaoh and that was thought to go against maat.
• The great Sphinx shows that they believe in a pharaoh as a god-king.
• the sphinx's body is a lion body, and the face is the face of king Khafre.
• the earliest Egyptian writing is called hieroglyphics. Pictures stood for words or separate sounds of words.
• Pyramids are a massive structure with sloping sides that meet at an apex, used as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt.
• Isis, Guide of souls is a tomb painting that shows hieroglyphics.
• Hyksos, Semitic immigrant tribes, were able to move into lower Egypt and the middle kingdom came to an end.
•  "I crushed a million countries by myself, on 'victory-in-thebes' mutis pleased my horse" is a scene from the battle of Qadesh.