Today in class we took a test on
Mesopotamia. I think I dd well, but I am not very certain. This morning I
forgot that I do not have western civilization after biology so that is why I
went to your class this morning and almost dint make it to the class I was
supposed to go to.
NOTES- Egypt
Geography- Nile river, Fertile
Silt collected after floods
Challenges- Water level dropped,
and silt replenished leading to droughts/ Floods destroyed houses/ Desert on
either side of Nile.
2 regions of rulers- Upper Egypt
Lower Egypt
Crows were Red for lower and white
for upper
Pharaohs were rulers and gods
Pharaohs held eternal power in
government
Believed in an afterlife that could
either send you to a wonderful place or a creature would eat you
Mummification helped preserve the
Pharaohs body’s
Filled tombs with valuables and
important items
Social class like a pyramid
Women had rights
Hieroglyphs meant different
things
wrote on pyperus
created a 365 calendar’s
Old kingdom fell and was taken over
into the middle kingdom
middle kingdom fell to outsiders
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