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Unit 1: River Valley Civ.
Ancient EgyptSlide2
Geography
Egypt
The Gift of the Nile
Transportation along the riverNatural Barriers helped to reduce warfare Slide3
Satellite Image of the NileSlide4
History:
Egypt Unites into a Kingdom
Egypt was separated into two kingdoms
A king named Narmer united Upper and Lower Egypt into one empire in 3000 BC
Narmer
created the first Egyptian dynastySlide5
Old Kingdom or “Age of Pyramids”
Most of the pyramids were built in this time period
Pyramid
: immense stone structure often built as tombs
The “Step” Pyramid built by Djoser
Pyramids of the Old KingdomSlide6
More
Pyramid
ActionSlide7
Social Structure
Egyptian Culture
Pharaohs
: Egyptian pharaohs
ruled
absolutely-
Center
of Egyptian culture, government, and
religion
Theocracy
:
when religion and gov’t mix
Polytheistic
:
Re
(sun god), Osiris (god of the dead), Goddess Isis (represented ideal mother and wife)
Believed
in afterlife and built burial chambers and tombs
Mummification
: embalming and drying of corpses to prevent decaySlide8
Religion
Ra: The Sun God
Isis
HoraceSlide9
Social StructureSlide10
Writing Egyptian Hieroglyphics
Hieroglyphics
: meaning “sacred carvings” started out as pictographs then transformed into sounds
First were written on stone then on papyrus an Egyptian form of paper
The Rosetta Stone
: found by the delta town of Rosetta in 1799 helped to break the
codeSlide11
Mummification
First, they draw out the brains through the nostrils with an iron hook. . . . Then with a sharp stone they make an incision in the side, and take out all the bowels. . . . Then, having filled the belly with pure myrrh, cassia, and other perfumes, they sew it up again; and when they have done this they steep it in natron [a mineral salt], leaving it under for 70 days. . . . At the end of 70 days, they wash the corpse, and wrap the whole body in bandages of waxen cloth.
HERODOTUS
,
The History of HerodotusSlide12
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