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Ancient EgyptBy: Florian, Aliya, and Chrissie
ContentsContents Introduction to Ancient Egypt
Education in Ancient Egypt
Laws in Ancient Egypt
Religion in Ancient Egypt
Art in Ancient Egypt
Culture in Ancient Egypt
Language in Ancient Egypt
Economy in Ancient Egypt
Government in Ancient Egypt
Bibliography
Timeline of the Timeline of the Ancient Egyptian Ancient Egyptian
CivilizationCivilization
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Where is Ancient Egypt?Where is Ancient Egypt?
• Egypt is in the northeast of Africa
• River Nile flows through Egypt
• Ancient Egyptians settled along the river
• Farmers first settles in 5000BCE
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When did the When did the civilization start?civilization start?
Started 3100BCE
Lasted 3000 years
Many changes and turns
31 dynasties in total
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Who lived in this area?Who lived in this area? Founded by a King Menes
343B.C.E. The Romans
Cleopatra VII
The Islamic Empire
Ottoman Turks - 1517
14th century – black death
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What was their What was their purpose?purpose?
Invention and Ideas
Pyramids and Tombs
Valley of the Kings
Engineering Ideas
Cairo
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How did if form?How did if form? 5000BCE lived in farming
villages
Had rituals, gods, and chieftain
3000BCE united into 2 kingdoms, Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt
3100BCE King Menes united both kingdoms
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Education in Ancient Education in Ancient EgyptEgypt
Stayed with mothers until 4 years old
Fathers educated boys after first 4 years, usually follow in trade of father
Schools for royalty, wealthy, scribes or priests
Girls educated by mother – house keeping, cooking, brewing, making clothes
Women excluded from ruling bureaucracy, temple elite, not eligible to work as scribes
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The Rosetta StoneThe Rosetta Stone Discovered by Napoleons
soldiers' while digging
1400 years after
Was the key to unlocking the mystery of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics
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Government in Government in Ancient EgyptAncient Egypt
Revolved around one figure – The pharaoh
Living God
Theocracy
Priests
Army commanders, chief treasurers, the minister of public works, and tax collector
Taxation
Laws
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Laws in Ancient EgyptLaws in Ancient Egypt Pharaoh head of legal system – made laws
Laws based on common sense view of right and wrong
Punishments for minor crimes
Punishment for serious crimes (tomb raiding, murder)
New Kingdom – oracles played major role in decision making
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Ancient Egyptian Ancient Egyptian EconomyEconomy
Trade on the Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea, and the Red Sea.
Other countries bought goods silver, iron, cedar logs, horses, ivory, copper, cattle, leopard skins, and spices.
Main goods
Cost was measured in a deben
Jobs : Merchants, farmers, artist, soldier
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Ancient Egyptian Ancient Egyptian Economy GraphEconomy Graph
Upper Class
Middle Class
Lower Class
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The Golden CoinThe Golden Coin Archeologists
discovered ancient Egyptian coins
name and image of the biblical Joseph, Cairo's Al Ahram
Newspaper from Egypt
Journalist
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Art in Ancient EgyptArt in Ancient Egypt For over 3500 years
Paint made out of minerals
iron ores (red and yellow ochres), copper ores (blue and green)
soot or charcoal (black), and limestone (white).
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Art in Ancient EgyptArt in Ancient Egypt Why they did art?
To make them proud
Dead Man standing in the barge of the sun worshiping the phoenix, symoble of the sun god of Heliopolis, Tomb of Irinefer
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Religion in Ancient Religion in Ancient EgyptEgypt
Polytheistic – worshipped more than 2,000 gods and goddesses
Believed in afterlife – Anubis god of the underworld weighed dead person’s heart
All classes planned for burials – royals built large tombs and pyramids, others built smaller tombs
Royal and elite Egyptians preserved by mummification
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Anubis - god of the Anubis - god of the deaddead
The god and guide of the underworld
Weigh each dead person’s heart
Test for purity and truth, if passed would live forever in the beautiful Other World
Win eternal life if no heavier than a feather
If tipped scale the heart was heavy with sin
Would oversee the embalming and mummification of the dead
Today still worshipped by sects of pagan religions
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Ancient Egyptian Ancient Egyptian CultureCulture
Religion really important
Men and women had many of the same rights
Games
Most slaves were farmers
Cosmetics for work and play
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Ancient Egyptian Ancient Egyptian CultureCulture
Pets
Royal dogs
Surgeons
Papyrus growers
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Language in Ancient Language in Ancient EgyptEgypt
First pictographs
Got more flexible
Hieroglyphics
From greek word
Meaning “sacred carving”
Each picture stood for an idea
Papyrus made out of reeds and used as paper
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Language in Ancient Language in Ancient EgyptEgypt
The hieroglyphics these are the letters they used to write with and they also used them to do arts
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bibliographybibliography http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Home
work/Egypt.html
http://www.love-egypt.com/map-of-egypt.htmlhttp://historylink101.net/egypt_1/a-education.htm
http://www.king-tut.org.uk/ancient-egyptians/ancient-egyptian-education.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt
http://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/ancient-egyptian-gods-anubis.html
http://liology.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/the-rosetta-stone-of-metaphysics-the-li/
Bibliography 2Bibliography 2 http://www.womenintheancientworld.com/
economy.htm.
http://home.earthlink.net/~marond/economy_pink.html.
http://nefertiti.iwebland.com/economy/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/life/home.html
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/time/home.html
http://www.allaboutwheat.info/history.html
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