Test Notes

Ancient Egypt
-Geography

 Egyptian life centered around the Nile river.

 Used water for drinking, irrigation, bathing.  

 Every July it floods

Every October it leaves behind rich soil.

The delta is a broad, marshy triangular area of fertile silt.

Managing the river required technological breakthroughs in irrigation. 
-Pyramids
The great Sphinx of Giza

Built 2555-2532 BC 
Is a recumbent lion with a human's head
Oldest monumental statue in the world.
Tribute to the Pharaohs. 
There to protect them. 
-Daily Life 
Order of status 

• Slaves- helped wealthy with household and child raising duties.  
• Farmers- raised wheat, barley, lentils, onions - benefited from irrigation of the Nile. 
• Artisans - would carve statues and relics, showing military battles, and seen from the afterlife. 
• Merchants - barter system was used. they might accept bags of grain for payment. later, coinage came about. 
• Scribes - kept records, told stories, wrote poetry, described anatomy, and medical treatments. 
They wrote in hieroglyphs, and hieratic.     

• Soldiers - used wooden weapons ( bows and arrows, spears) might ride chariots.  
• Upper class- "white Kilt class" priests, physicians, engineers. 
• Pharaohs 

Were the religious and political leader of the Egyptian people. " lord of two lands" upper and lower Egypt. 

Owned land, made laws, collected taxes, and defended Egypt against foreigners. 

Women Served once.

Cleopatra VII served as Pharaoh, But much later. 

( 51 - 30 BC ) 

More on her when we study Greece. 

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