Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Ancient Egyptian Review

  • Geography, daily life, pharaohs, gods and goddesses, pyramids. 

  • GEOGRAPHY
    • Centered around the Nile River
    • Water for drinking, irrigating,  and bathing
    • Every July it floods
    • Ever October it leaves and behind rich soil. 
    • First ones to figure out a solar based day, lunar based month, solar based year.
    • Delta is a broad, marshy, triangular  area of feritle land
    • Nile river flows SOUTH to NORTH .
    • Managing the river required technology breakthroughs in irrigation
  • Pyramids
    • Great Sphinx of Giza
      • Recumbent lion with a lions head
      • Built 2555-2532 BC
      • Oldest monumental statue in the world
    • How people were subdivided in ancient Egypt ( sort of like a caste system)
      • Slaves helped with wealthy (household or children duty)
      • Farmers raised crops
      • Artisans design statues etc.  

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