Geography of Egypt
-daily life
-pharaohs
-goddess's and Gods
-Pyramids
Egyptian life is centered around the Nile
-The water form the Nile comes from the mountains
-water for drinking for irrigating and bathing
-Every July it floods
-a delta is a broad marshy triangular area of fertile silt
-maninging the river needed irrigation
Pyramids
-The great Sphinx of Giza is the most famous pyramid built 2532BC
-a recumbent lion with a human's head
-oldest monumentally statue in the world
Daily Life
-bottom to top slaves and servants, farmers, artisans, merchants, scribes. soldiers, government officials, pharaohs
-slaves/servants helped the wealthy with household
-farmers raised wheat, barley, lentils onions;benefited from the Nile
-artisans would crave statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes in afterlife
-money/barter system was useed-merchants might accept bags of grain for payment-later coinage came about
-scribes kept records, told stories,m wrote poetry
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