Ancient Egypt

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Ancient Egypt
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Ancient Egypt - Geography
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Ancient Egypt - Geography

• River Valley
• Nile (worlds longest river)
• Predictable flooding
• Flowed north
• Winds blew south
• Upper Lower Egypt
• Delta
• Cataracts
• Deserts
• Natural barriers
• Kept Egyptians close to the river

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Ancient Egypt Complex Inst.

• Government
• What kind of government did Egypt have?
• Who united the Upper Lower Egypt in 3100
  B.C.E?

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Government
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Society socially mobile
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Religion

• Describe Egyptian religion?
• One god or many?
• Who is at the top?
• Religious beliefs
• Mummification what religious beliefs does
  mummification represent?
• Explain how mummification was involved in every
  element of Ancient Egyptian Civilization

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Mummies
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Mummies
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Mummies illustrate Egyptian Civilization

• Religious Institutions
• Belief in an afterlife
• Organized religion Priests, Gods, Goddesses
• Advanced Technology
• Specialized tools bronze lancet, linen
• Specialized Workers
• Embalmers highly skilled craft
• Record Keeping
• Tomb walls covered in inscriptions Book of the
  Dead

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Achievements
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Achievements
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Hieroglyphics
Early Pictures stood for idea Later
Pictures stood for sounds
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Other Achievements

• Name some other Achievements -

Calendar Keep track of seasons floods
Medicine Set bones Check pulse Treat wounds
fevers
Written numbers collect taxes
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Ancient Egypt

• Old Kingdom
• 2660 2180 B.C.E.
• Middle Kingdom
• 2080 1640 B.C.E.
• New Kingdom
• 1570 1075 B.C.E.