The rest of my notes!!!!!!!!!!

• The Nile and the "two lands"
• Upper Egypt was a 500 mile long strip of fertile land along the Nile, lower Egypt was the wide land of the Nile delta, emptying into the Mediterranean sea.
• The Nile was the major provider of life for the Egyptians and was much revealed in love and writing
• C. 1300 B.C. the two lands were united under a single king or "pharaoh" government by a god-king
• Pharaoh was all powerful, worship as a God and intimately connected to the other major Egyptian gods and goddesses
• Egyptians relied on a harmony and balance of the universe, which they called "maat"
• Pharaohs has multiple wives, often their own sisters, and all routes to financial and social success were through the palace
• Women and inherit money and land and divorce their husbands though only a tiny few ever wieded real political power
• Gods, Humans, and Everlasting Life
• Gods were often portrayed with animal heads or bodies
• The pharaoh Akenaten a "Aten," a sundisk, and tried to make Aten the supreme God of Egypt
• Egyptians believed in an after-life and mummified bodies to preserve them for this past-death journey
• Take out brains and heart and keep them in jars to preserve
• All souls would need to justify themselves at the point of death and be either sent to an after-world paradise, or the jaws of a monster