LO-3-Egypt

today we went over the notes again for a refresher and for our blog we are taking notes on pages 20-29.

• steppes - vast semiarid grasslands or plains.
• the Indo-European people's lifestyle differed from the southwestern Asian nomads.
• the Hittites were the most powerful and longest ruled kingdoms.
• pharaohs - the rulers of ancient Egypt.
• the Egypt's king was also known as a God.
• all of their God's were known as maat.
• women very rarely wield the full authority of a pharaoh.
• Egyptians were polytheistic
• writing arose in Egypt
• earliest form of writing were the hieroglyphs
• hieroglyphs - the earliest Egyptian writing, in which pictures stood for whole words or separate sounds of words.
• knowledgeable in medicine.
• pyramid - a massive structure with sloping sides that met at an apex, used as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt.