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Write using COMPLETE sentences
Which site would you have started Ancient Egypt at? WHY?? Give AT LEAST 3 reasons to support your opinion
DO NOWSept. 28th, 2015 – Week 4
Ancient EGYPT
Agriculture again is the foundation that allowed civilizations to grow
Began in the Sahara Dessert (10,000B.C.E.) - Steppe grass, lakes, rivers & streams - small monarchies ruled throughout Climate Change (5,000 B.C.E.) - became dessert - drove people & animals to Nile River - few larger civilizations formedEgypt & Nubia
Why Build a civilization in Africa?
Grassland to dessert
Why Egypt & Nubia??Relied on Nile River
& Agriculture
Traded with each other
The Gift of the Nile
“ As far as the eye can see, flood waters cover the land. Here and there, villages stand on slight rises above the swirling river”
What are the Seasons of Egypt?
(1) Season of the FloodEvery year the river floods ~100
daysWhile under water the people work
for the pharaoh building temples
(2) Season of Going OutAs water retreats, the mud is plowed
Wheat & Barley is planted
Small garden for personal use
(3) Season of the HarvestHarvest 4 months after planting
People keep 1\2
Rest goes to the Pharaoh as tax
How did Geography and the Nile River give power
and wealth to the Pharaohs?
Food & Money = POWER- Pharaoh Menes - Able to use the Nile
to increase agriculture
- Rose to power & conquered most of Egypt
- created centralized Gov’t led by Pharaohs
Land provides ResourcesThey used the resources
the land provided them to…
Built Pyramids
Built Tombs
Created a strong MilitaryHorse ChariotsBronze Weapons
TOMBS - PYRAMIDS
How did they set up their Government?
Social Structure: Patriatchal
PHARAOHSupreme ruler, God
like
CENTRAL GOV’T1. Military
2. Administrators3. Tax Collectors
Common people could rise
LOWER CLASS1. Peasants
2. SlavesProvide hard labor----------------------------
EXCEPTION- Queen Hatsheput
- Co ruled w\ step son Tuthmosis III
What were Egyptian Achievements ?Sail BoatsHieroglyphics - “Holy
Inscriptions” - 3200B.C.E. - Pictographic &
symbols to represent sounds
- written on papyrus
MummificationOrganized Religion
Religion Polytheistic: different
gods control the forces of nature
Belief in live after death
Prepared carefully for journey through the underworld to the “Happy Field of Food”
Pyramids: tombs filled with food, clothing & jewels needed for the afterlife
What was the Egyptian religion and how did Geography affect it?
GODS
Amon-Re: Sun God, Chief god
Osiris: God of the underworld and of the Nile
(evil Seth, death, wife, resurrected)
Measure of a heart – Osiris
How did Egypt fall?
Assyrian Army attacked from the North
Kushite Dynasty attacked from the south
UNIT: Geography TOPIC: Ancient Egypt
PROMPT: Explain THREE ways the Nile River
affected Ancient Egypt.Then answer the question:
Would Ancient Egypt exist without the Nile? Defend your answer
JOURNAL ENTRY – Sept. 28th 2015
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