On the Test

• geography
• centered around the nile river
• cant live anywhere but around the nile because it is desert
• planting crops
• drinking water
• bathing
• transportation
• first people to invent a sail
• it is the only river to flow north
• flows downward and empties into the Mediterainian
• every July it floods
• every October it leaves behind rich, fertile soil
• helped them figure out a calender
• managing the river required technological breakthroughs in irrigation
• the delta is a broad, marshy triangular area of fertile silt
• daily life
• List
• Pharaoh-highest
• religious leader and political leader of the egypian people
• holding titles: Lord of the Two lands and Hight priest of the temple
• as the lord of the two landsthe pharaoh was the ruler ruler of the upper and lower land.  He owned all the land made laws collected taxes and defended EGYot against fighters
• Hatshepsut was a women who served as a pharaoh
• Cleopatra VII also served as pharaoh but much later (51-30 BC) 
• Government Officials-Nobels, Priests
• upper class, known as the white kilt class-priests, physicians, engineers
• Soldiers-highly respected
• used wooden weapons (bows & arrows, spears) with bronze tips and might ride chariots
• Scribes-educated
• history started when they started writing this down
• scrives kept record, told storeies, wrote poetry described anatomy an medical treatments
• wrote in hieroglyphs and in hieratic
• Merchants
• Used money/barter system- merchants might accept of grain for payment- later coinage came about
• Artisans-made things
• would carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes in the afterlife
• Farmers
• wheat, barley, lentils, onions- benefited from irrigation of the Nile
• Slaves and Servants-lowest and has the most of them
• helped the wealthy with household and child raising
• not abused
• pharaohs
• goddesses and gods
• pyramids
• the great Sphinx of Giza
• built 2555-2532 BC* 4500 years ago
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• a recumbent lion with a human head
• oldest monument in the world
• Turks shot off nose
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