ANCIENT EGYPT

NILE RIVER

NILE RIVER

• There are many settlements along the Nile river.
• Two sources of the Nile river are crops, and the flooding cycle.
• Irrigation channels from the Nile flowed to smaller gardens where farmers grew vegetables.
• The Nile river is the worlds longest river, 4,160 miles.
• On Shemu--Crops in the lower Nile are harvested and sent to the market.

SOCIETY

SOCIETY

• The " king" is the highest class.
• Enslaved people are the lowest class.
• People were born into their own social classes.
• A person who wrote on papyrus would be in the social class; merchants,craftsmen, and scribes.
• Farmers were second to the last class.

PYRAMIDS

PYRAMIDS

• You had to have these skills to build a pyramid; mathmatics,architecture,geometry, and engineering.
• The pyramids are large stone buildings.
• Pyramids are built for kings " pharaohs."
• Pyramids are used as houses and tombs for dead kings.
• Pharaohs were buried with thier possessions.

HIEROGLYPHICS

HIEROGLYPHICS

• Hieroglyphics was a system of writing that was based on pictures.
• The pharaohs of Egypt invented hieroglyphics.
• Hieroglyphics represented ideas or objects.
• Hieroglyphics could also stand for sounds, unlike cunieform.
• Egyptians invented papyrus that made keeping records easier.

PHARAOHS

PHARAOHS

• A pharaoh is a god.
• A pharaoh has no eaual.
• Hatshepsut is pharaoh.
• Hatshepsut the pharaoh dressed like a man.
• Hatshepsut took control by saying Sun God RA is her real father.