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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