Today we did not have school due to the many inches of snow we received last night. Unfortunately, today is a cyber day. Our cyber day assignment from Mr. Schick was to take the notes on the Ancient Egypt prezi. The notes I took are:
Geography: Egyptian life is centered around the Nile River, water for drinking, for irrigating, for bathing, and for transportation, every July it floods, every October it leaves behind rich soil, the delta is a broad, marshy triangular are of fertile silt, managing the river required technological breakthroughs in irrigation
Pyramids: The Great Sphinx of Giza, built around 2555-2532 B.C., a recumbent lion with a human's head, oldest monumental statue in the world
Daily Life: 1. Pharoah 2. Government Officials- Nobles, Priests 3. Soldiers 4. Scribes 5. Merchants 6. Artisans 7. Farmers 8. Slaves and Servants, Slaves and Servants helped the wealthy with household and child raising duties, raised wheat, barley, lentils, onions- benefitted from irrigation of the Nile, Artisans would crave statues and reliefs, showing military battles and scenes in the afterlife, money/barter system was used- merchants might accept bags of grain for payment- later coinage came about, Scribes kept records, told stories, wrote poetry described anatomy and medical treatments, they wrote in hieroglyphs and in hieratic, Soldiers used wooden weapons (bows, arrows, spears) w/bronze and might ride chariots, Upper Class known as "white kilt class" priests, physicians, engineers, religious and political leader
Pharaohs: The political and religious leader of the Egyptian people, holding the titles: "Lord of Two Lands", As "Lord of Two Lands" the pharaoh was the leader of Upper Egypt. He owned all land, made laws, collected taxes, and defended Egypt against foreigners, Hatshepsut was a women who served as pharaoh, Cleopatra VII also served as pharaoh, but much later (51-30 B.C)
Goddesses and Gods: Over 2000 gods and goddesses, they "controlled" the lives of humans
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