Land of the Pharaohs: Egypt LO3

• Egyptian civilization was more stable than Mesopotamia 
• egyptian civilization grew along the nile river with plenty of fertile land
• The Narmer Platte-used for making the paint for the images in the egyptian temple in 3100 B.C.

The Nile and the "two lands"

• egypt was divited into two sections called the "Two Lands"
• Upper Egypt - was a huge strip of fertile land along a river that flows through the north african desert
• Lower egypt - was a fan like pattern of water ways - delta
• "gift of the Nile" - gave wealth to the earliest egyptian civilization

Pharaohs - rulers of ancient Egypt

Government by a God-King 

• pharaohs were both god and man 
• teh pharaohs had great responsibilty and power
• different aspects of the same thing - maat

"hail to thee, O Nile, that issues from the earth and comes to keep Egypt alive! Hidden in his form of appearance, a darkness by day, to whom minstrels have sung. He that waters the medows which he re created, in order to keep evert kid alive. he that makes to drink the desert and the pkace distant from water: that is his dew coming down (from) heaven."

Men and wemon under the pharahos

• the women who were closest to the pharahos alos had divinity 
• the kings prinicipals wife was often his sister of half-sister
• Hatshepsut - the most successful ruler; 1500 B.C. 

Gods humans and everlasting

• many egyptian dieties were concived in the form of animal so the image of the gods usually had animal heads or bodies
• the great sphinx has a human head and a lions body

The great sphinx - craved out of solid rock, expresses the Egyptian belief of the god-king

The soul declares its innocence

• by 2000 b.c., the judgement of the souls after death and eternal life was accepted beliefs the newly dead were said to travel at night to the underworld and rise in the morning with the sun god
• the soul declares its innocence of their worngs in many ways infornt to the god of the dead, Osiris

Hieroglyphics - earliest Egyptian writing, pictures stood for whole words or separate sounds of words

Calendars and sailboats

• a calendar with 12 equal months of 30 days and 5 "free" days for make up for the 365 days of the year