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Ancient Egypt - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Always on the west bank of the Nile, west is the land of the dead
    - - Giza
      - For Khufu
- - - - Traders, artisans and scribes
        
        Farmers and unskilled workers
        
        Paid rent to landowners
        
        Simple homes
        
        Simple diet
        
        Slaves
        
        Captured during war
        
        Could earn their freedom
        
        Artisans are particularly important members of the middle class
        
        Live in smaller homes
        
        Dress more simply
      - elegant homes on the Nile River
      - Makeup and jewelry
      - Servants
- - - - More southern
    - - Near the Nile Delta
    - - Establishes a new capital at Memphis
      - Establishes a dynasty
        
        Old Kingdom
        
        2600-2200 BCE
        
        Theocracy- when the religious and political leader is the same person
        
        Begins using the term pharaoh
        
        Appointed bureacrats to carry out orders
        
        Pharaoh was Re the Egyptian sun god here to protect Egypt
        
        Middle Kingdom
        
        c 2055 - 2650 BCE
        
        New dynasty
        
        New capital at Thebes
        
        New Territory
        
        Control of Nubia to the south
        
        Known as the Golden Age
        
        Building Projects
        
        Irrigation canals
        
        New farmland
        
        Canal between the Nile River and the Red Sea
        
        New Kingdom