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Ancient Egypt ASPIRE, Nathanael Berhow - Coggle Diagram
Ancient Egypt ASPIRE
Social structure
farmers servants slaves
grain from farmers as taxes
vizier and scribes
assisted pharoah
vizier worked with scribes
scribes kept records and laws
pharoh
thought of as gods
directed army
kept storehouses for grain in case of famine
nobles and priests
held government posts
wealthy
soldiers craftsmen
merchants
doctors
could move up the pyrimid
Politics
upper and lower were separate
later combined
had their own crowns
pharoah ran government
sometimes a woman would become pharoah
Area
nile
longest river
flooded
gave rich soil
upper and lower egypt
two lands
lower is north
delta
upper is south
more mountainous
only thought of as two separate countries
irrigation
canals dug from nile
shaduf for moving water into canal
20 liters per square meter of land per day
religion
afterlife
heart would be weighed
ammut would eat you if your heart weighed more than a feather
mummification
preserved bodies for afterlife
organs removed
salted bodies
organs kept in jars
gods
only feared ammut
loved all their other gods
polythiestic
Inventions
math
decimal system
7 symbols
heiroglyphics
pictograph
ideograms
pyramids
great pyramid of khufu
used to be shiny
450 feet tall
wonders of the world
Economy
exports
traded resources
crafts
for wealthier people
no money
traded
agriculture
main economic activity
wheat and barley
basically used as money
flax
Nathanael Berhow