Geography
- Nile gives water for drinking, farming, bathing and transportation
- every July it floods
- every October it leaves behind rich soil
- the delta is a broad triangular area of rich soil
- managing the river had to do with irrigation
Pyramids
- the great Sphinx of Giza
- built in 2555-2532
- a recumbent lion with a human head
- oldest monumental statue in the world
Daily Life
pharaohs(religious and political leader)
government officials and pretests(white kilts)
soldiers(wooden weapons w/ bronze tips)
scribes(wrote stories, kept records)
artisans(pictured afterlife) and merchants(trade system)
slaves and servants (worked for wealthy)
Pharaohs
- lord of the 2 lands
- high priest of the temple
- owned all land
- made laws
- collected taxes
- Hatshepsar was a woman pharaoh
- .Cleopatra 7th last of the pharaohs
gods and goddesses
- over 2,000
- sun god - Ra
- controlled lives of humans
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