Ancient Egypt World Studies Geography Relative Location Northeast
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Ancient Egypt World Studies
Geography • Relative Location • Northeast Africa • Along the Nile River • South of the Mediterranean Sea and east of the Red Sea
Geography • Movement • The Nile flows north from its source in Lake Victoria to its mouth in the Mediterranean Sea which forms a delta. – (This is tricky!) River flow • Upper and Lower Egypt
Advanced Cities • Memphis – capital of United Egypt • Thebes – center of artifacts – Temple of Luxor – Valley of Kings – Temple of Ramses • Giza – Sphinx & Great Pyraminds
Specialized Workers Masons Slaves
Complex Institutions • • • Pharaoh Dynasty Theocracy polytheism Egyptian gods – Amun-Ra – Osiris • pyramids • mummification
Record Keeping & Writing • • Pictogram Hieroglyphics Papyrus Rosetta Stone
Advanced Technology • • Pyramid Calendar Forensics Water clock Sun dial Bronze work medicine
Old Kingdom • • Upper and Lower Egypt united in 3200 BC Pharaoh- King of Egypt- seen as a God Pyramids- tombs for Pharaoh Mummification- embalming corpse to prevent decay • Nile river floods and deposits a rich layer of silt • During flood farmers worked on pyramids and other projects
Anubis- God of embalming and the Dead
Old Kingdom • Old Kingdom- 2660 -2180 BC • Sun rises on East side of River where cities are. Life. Sets on West side where tombs are- Death • Egyptians Polytheistic- worship many Gods • How did the Egyptian view of the afterlife compare to that of the Sumerians? • Compare/contrast the writing and document storage systems of Egypt and Sumer.
Ra- God of Sun
Nut- Goddess of Sky
Amun-King of Gods
Delivering a Baby
Medical Instruments
Fractured forearm with splint
Great Pyramids at Giza
Great Sphinx
Middle Kingdom • Old Kingdom ends 2180 BC • Middle Kingdom: -dug a canal from Nile to Red Sea -Built dykes on Nile to trap water -Drained swamps in lower Egypt to create farmland -Traded with Mesopotamia and Indus Valley • Hyksos conquer Egypt and invite Jews
New Kingdom • Hyksos defeated, New Kingdom begins, Jews enslaved • Kush conquers Egypt 750 BC- from Ethiopia • Assyrians defeat Kushites in 671 BC • Egyptian rule ends with Greek conquest 300 s BC
Irrigation of a palm orchard by a shaduf
Irrigating and harvesting in a vegetable garden.
Bronze Medical Needle
Circular Medical Cautery
Hieroglyphic Alphabet
The Rosetta Stone
The Rosetta Stone
Numbers
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