the ancient egyptians. satellite photo of nile river
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The Ancient Egyptians
Satellite photo of Nile River
Nile River“Longest River in the World”
Egypt: The Gift of the Nile
95% of the Egyptian people live on 5% of the land
Annual flooding of the Nile
The Fertile Nile Valley
What can you tell about the Egyptians from the picture?
Irrigation
MenesUnifier of Upper and Lower Egypt
3000 BCE
Ancient Egyptian Housing
Middle Class Housing
Peasant Homes
Social Hierarchy
Theocracy=government in which the religious leaders are also the political leaders
Pharoahs
Queen Hatshepsut
1480 BCE
Thutmose IIIAmenhotep
“Akenaton”
1370 BCE
Akenaton “First Monotheist?”
Ramses
Tutankhamen
Archaeologist Howard Carter 1922
Priestly Class
Scribe
Papyrus = Paper
Hieratic Scroll Piece
Champollion and the Rosetta Stone
Hieroglyphics24 letters plus 700 phonetics
Gods and GoddessesPolytheism
Osiris Isis Horus
Book of the Dead
Anubis weighs heart against
feather
The Final Judgment
Osiris, Anubis, Horus
Trade RoutesNile, Canals to Red Sea, Overland
Innovations
Astronomy
Hieroglyphics
Math based on units of ten
Medical texts
What did you learn?
• 1. The belief in many gods is known asa. Theocracy
b. Polytheism
c. Monotheism
d. Buddhism
• 2. What form of writing did the Egyptians use?a. Cuneiform
b. Barriograms
c. Hieroglyphics
• The combination of religious and political authority in Ancient Egypt may best be described asa. Monotheism
b. Theocracy
c. Oligarchy
d. Monarchy