Lands of Pharaohs: Egypt

• Egypt is made of "two lands".
• Egypt is a 500 mile strip of fertile land along the Nile.
•  Lower Egypt is wide land of the Nile delta, emptying in the Mediterranean sea.
• The Nile was the major provider for the Egyptians.
• In 3100 B.C. the two lands were united by a "pharaoh".
• government by a God-King (pharaoh)
• pharaohs were all powerful, worshiped as a god.
• Maat- harmony and balance of the universe
• pharaohs had multiple wives, sometimes even their sisters.
• women could inherit money, and land, and divorce their husband.
•  Very few women though ever had political power.
• Gods, humans and everlasting life
• gods were often portrayed with animal heads or bodies
• Egyptians believed in an after life and mummified bodies