ANCIENT EGYPT BY AUSTIN HANCOCK PERIOD 2ND

NILE RIVER

NILE RIVER

• Mostly everybody lives along the Nile River
• Most of the cities are along the Nile River.
• The Nile could tell the difference between black and red land.
• They only have three seasons and they akhel, peret, and shemu.
• Farmers have to work of their public-labor tax by doing thins such as canal repair.

SOCIETY

SOCIETY

• They have different social classes that people have to move up in them.
• The people were born into their social class.
• The highest in the chart is the king.
• Only farmers, unskilled workers, and enslaved people harvested crops and food.
• Merchants, craftsmen, and scrlbes write on the papyrus.

PYRAMIDS

PYRAMIDS

• Pyramids were built for dead kings, houses, and tombs.
• The Kings in the old kingdom built the pyramids.
• You have to have geometry, mathematics, engineering, and architecture skills to be able to build a pyramid.
• A pyramid contains a chamber, King chamber, long hallway, entrance, air shaft, and a temple.
• Temples are where offerings were made.

HIEROGLYPHICS

HIEROGLYPHICS

• Hieroglyphics represented ideas and objects.
• Egyptians used stone and clay to write hieroglyphics on.
• Hieroglyphics is a system of writing that is based on pictures.
• Hieroglyphics represented ideas and objects, but can also stand for sounds.

PHARAOHS

PHARAOHS

• Egyptians only believed that men could be king.
• Hatshepsut took control by saying that Ra was her real father.
• Hatshepsut was portrayed as a male.
• Egyptians referred to there king as a pharaoh.
• The pharaoh had a lot of power in the land.