More Notes on Egypt

Stuff on the Test:

• Geogrphy 
• Daily Life
• Pharaohs
• Goddesses and Gods
• Pyramids

Egyptian Life is centered around the Nile River.
Water for Drinking, irrigating, and bathing
At the top of the river is a Delta and the river flows south to north into the Mediterranean Sea.
Ever July it floods because the mountain snow melts and flows into the river and floods over everything.
The river actually gets its water from the melting of snow from the mountain in Africa.
They can tell when a month changes by the moon.
Every October it leaves behind rich soil.
The delta is a broad, marshy, triangular area of fertile silt.
The Great Sphinx of Giza Built 2155-2532 b.c.
A recumbent lion with a human's head.
Oldest monumental statue in the world.
The Population of Egypt:

• Pharaoh- religious and political leader. Made laws collected taxes. A.K.A. ruler of two lands. He owned all of Egypt. He kept the people safe from invaders. Hatshepsut was a woman who served as pharaoh when her father died. Cleopatra VII also served as pharaoh much later though (51-30 b.c.) more on her when we study Greece.
• Government Officials- upper class, known as the "white kilt class" priests, physicians, engineers.
• Soldiers- used wooden weapons (bows and arrows, spears) with bronze tips and might ride chariots (depending on how high up in the army you are).
• Scribes- kept records, toldstories, wrote poetry, described anatomy and medical treatments. They wrote in hieroglyphics and in hieratic.
• Merchants- money barter system was used that merchants might accept bags of grain for payment, later, and coinage comes out.

• Artisans- woul carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes in the after life.
• Farmers- raising wheat, barley, lentils, onions - benefited from irrigation of the Nile.
• Slaves and Servants- helping the wealthy with household and child raising.