To fast to keep up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today Mr. Schick went wayyy to fast for me to keep up anyways we learned:

• Geography
• Daily Life
• Pharaoh
• Goddesses and Gods
• Pyramids

-Geography:

• Nile gives you water to drink, for irrigating, bathing, and for transportation
• every july it floods
• every October it leaves behind rich soil
• The delta is getting a broad, marshy triangular area of fertile silt
• Managing the river required technological break through in irrigation

-Pyramids:

• The great Sphink of Giza
• Built in 2555-2532BC
• A recumbent lion with a humans head
• Oldest monumental statue in the world

-Daily Life:

1. Pharaoh
2. Government officials
3. Soldiers
4. Scribes
5. Merchants
6. Artisans
7. Farmers
8. Slaves and Servants

• Slave/servants helped the wealthy with household and child rising duties
• raised wheat, barley, lentils onions - benefitted from irrigation of the Nile
• Artisans would carve 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 out
• Scribes kept records, told stories, wrote poetry described anatomy and metical treatments
• They were hieroglyphs and in hieratic
• soldiers used wooden weapons (bows and arrows and spears) w/ bronze tips
• Upper class, known as the "white kilt class" - priests, physicians, engineers
• Religious and political leader

-Pharaohs: The political and religious leader of the Egyptian people, holding the little "Lord of the two lands"

• Owned all land, made laws, collected taxes, and defeated against Egyptian Foreigners
• Hatshepsut was a women who served as a pharaoh
• Some had a strap on beard if they choose not to actually grow one
• Cleopatra VII also served as a pharaoh, but was much later (51-30BC) more on when we study Greece

-Goddesses and Gods

• Over 2000 Gods and Goddesses
• They "controlled" the lives of humans