Geography:
- Egyptian life is centered around the Nile River
- Centered physical and spiritual around the Nile River
- It's the river that kept them alive, part of their daily life
- Flows into the Mederitian sea and is next to the Red sea
- Water comes from mountains
- Water for drinking, for irrigating for bathing
- Every July it floods
- It's a good thing if you know it's coming
- Knew flood was coming because they had a calendar
- Among the first people in the world to have a calendar
- Knew what a day was
- Knew the months
- Knew the years
- Every October it leaves behind rich soil
- The delta is a broad, marshy, triangular area of fertile silt
- Managing the river required technological breakthroughs in irrigation
Pyramids:
- Built them a specific angles
- A pyramid is the only shape they could have done
- Seems impossible that they could have built pyramids
- Most famous pyramid
- The Great Sphinx of Giza:
- Built 2555-2532BC
- Oldest monumental statue in the world
- A recumbent lion with a human's head
- They did a lot of animal bodies and human heads
- Thought that to communicate with gods they had to be part human and part animal
- Most pyramids are still there
Daily Life:
- Pharao
- Government offcials- nobels, priests: government centered around gods
- Soldiers: protected you, highly thought of
- Scribes: more highly thought of, a real skill, wrote down history
- Merchants: gave you milk and grain, thought of more
- Artisans: weavers, made baskets
- Farmers: weren't well thought of but a lot of them to feed people
- Slaves and servants: greatest number of people they had
- Slaves/servants- helped wealthy with housework and raising kids
- Framers raised wheat, barley, lentils, onions- benefitted from irrigation of the Nile
- Artist- craved out statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes of the afterlife
- Frist people how had an idea of what happens to you after you die
- Money/barter system was used- merchants might accept bags of grain for payment- later, coinage came about
- Merchants made coins and thought out how much things cost
- Scribes kept records, told stories, wrote poetry described anatomy and medical treatments
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