Test Wednesday

For today and tomorrow, we are going over the final notes for Egypt. Then we will have our test Wednesday and start our new unit of Ancient Greece Friday! The notes from today's class are;

• Geography
• Egyptian life is centered around the Nile River
• the water is used for drinking, bathing, and transportation
• every July it floods (Grant)
• every October it leaves behind rich soil
• the delta is a broad, marshy, triangular shaped area of silt
• managing the river required a technological breakthrough
• Pyramids
• the Great Sphinx of Giza
• built 2555-2532 BC
• a laying lion with a human head
• oldest monumental statue in the world
• Daily Life
• Slaves and Servants
• helped the wealthy households and child raising duties
• Farmers
• raised wheat, barley, lentils, and onions
• Artisans
• would create statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes of after life
• Merchants
• money/barter system was used
• might accept bags of grain for payment
• later a coinage came along
• Scribes
• kept record, told stories, wrote poetry, described anatomy and other medical things
• wrote in hieroglyphs and hieratic
• Soldiers
• used wooden weapons with bronze tips and could ride chariots
• Government Officials
• upper class, known as the "white kilt class" - persists, physicians, engineers, etc.
• Pharaohs
• religious and political leaders
• holds the titles of "Lord of the Two Lands" and "High Priest of Every Temple"
• ruler of upper and lower Egypt
• owned all land, made laws, and collected taxes
• defended Egypt against foreigners
• Hatshepsut & Cleopatra were both women pharaohs
• Goddesses & Gods
• over 2000
• Sun God; Rah
• controlled the lives of the humans

BREAK FINALLY