Ancient%20Egypt

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Ancient Egypt

• World Studies

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Geography

• Relative Location
• Northeast Africa
• Along the Nile River
• South of the Mediterranean Sea and east of the
  Red Sea

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Geography

• Movement
• The Nile flows north from its source in Lake
  Victoria to its mouth in the Mediterranean Sea
  which forms a delta.
• Upper and Lower Egypt
• (This is tricky!)

River flow
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Advanced Cities

• Memphis capital of United Egypt
• Thebes center of artifacts
• Temple of Luxor
• Valley of Kings
• Temple of Ramses
• Giza Sphinx Great Pyraminds

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Specialized Workers
Masons
Slaves
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Complex Institutions

• Pharaoh
• Dynasty
• Theocracy
• polytheism
• Egyptian gods
• Amun-Ra
• Osiris
• pyramids
• mummification

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Record Keeping Writing

• Pictogram
• Hieroglyphics
• Papyrus
• Rosetta Stone

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Advanced Technology

• Pyramid
• Calendar
• Forensics
• Water clock
• Sun dial
• Bronze work
• medicine

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Old Kingdom

• Upper and Lower Egypt united in 3200 BC
• Pharaoh- King of Egypt- seen as a God
• Pyramids- tombs for Pharaoh
• Mummification- embalming corpse to prevent decay
• Nile river floods and deposits a rich layer of
  silt
• During flood farmers worked on pyramids and other
  projects

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Anubis- God of embalming and the Dead
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Old Kingdom

• Old Kingdom- 2660-2180 BC
• Sun rises on East side of River where cities are-
  Life. Sets on West side where tombs are- Death
• Egyptians Polytheistic- worship many Gods
• How did the Egyptian view of the afterlife
  compare to that of the Sumerians?
• Compare/contrast the writing and document storage
  systems of Egypt and Sumer.

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Ra- God of Sun
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Nut- Goddess of Sky
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Amun-King of Gods
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Delivering a Baby
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Medical Instruments
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Fractured forearm with splint
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Great Pyramids at Giza
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Great Sphinx
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Middle Kingdom

• Old Kingdom ends 2180 BC
• Middle Kingdom
• -dug a canal from Nile to Red Sea
• -Built dykes on Nile to trap water
• -Drained swamps in lower Egypt to create
  farmland
• -Traded with Mesopotamia and Indus Valley
• Hyksos conquer Egypt and invite Jews

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New Kingdom

• Hyksos defeated, New Kingdom begins, Jews
  enslaved
• Kush conquers Egypt 750 BC- from Ethiopia
• Assyrians defeat Kushites in 671 BC
• Egyptian rule ends with Greek conquest- 300s BC

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Irrigation of a palm orchard by a shaduf
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Irrigating and harvesting in a vegetable garden.
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Bronze Medical Needle
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Circular Medical Cautery
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Hieroglyphic Alphabet
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The Rosetta Stone
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The Rosetta Stone
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