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Ancient Egypt ASPIRE by Yasmine Moreno and Karissa Morales - Coggle Diagram
Ancient Egypt ASPIRE by Yasmine Moreno and Karissa Morales
Area
The Nile River
World's longest river
4,000 miles long
Shaped like a lotus flower
Water runs off the mountains causing floods
Each spring
The Gift of the Nile
Silt left behind
Rich, fertile soil
Irrigation and Flooding
Dug canals to fix dried fields
Cuts through the desert of Egypt
Used a Shaduf to lift water from canals
Container made of animal skins or clay
Filled with water and dumped into canal
Upper and Lower Egypt
Lower Egypt
Northern part of country
Papyrus grew here
Upper Egypt
Social Structure
Highest Class
Gods
Pharaohs were gods
Gave protection and earned tax money
Viziers and Scribes
Served pharaoh, read and wrote
Ensured collected taxes
Kept government records
Nobles and priests
Nobles held government posts
Priests pleased gods
Middle Class
Soldiers
Fought in wars
Supervised lower classes
Skilled workers
Doctors
Craftspeople
Made and sold useful things
Papyrus products, jewelry, pottery, tools
Lower Class
Slaves
Captured prisoners of war
Forced to work
Farmers
Tended to fields
Raised livestock
Paid 60% of their earnings in taxes
Politics
System of Government
The government relied on the pharaoh
Believed they were a living god
Prominent Pharaohs
Akhenaten
Pushed people towards new religion
Made them believe in one god (Aten)
King Tut
Nine years old when crowned
Died at 18
Tomb was very small
Ramesses ll
Youngest ruler at 9
Died at 18
Had a small tomb
Upper and Lower Egypt Unified
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Ruler of upper egypt conquered lower egypt
Caused them to be unified
A crown was worn on ruler to symbolize union
Memphis created by the ruler
Capital city
Ideas & Inventions
Hieroglyphs
Made up of: Sound-signs
Pictograms
Ideograms
Symbolism of object
Represented what the object looked like
Appeared as what the object sounded like
Math
Decimal Systems
used 7 symbols to represent numbers
Higher number was written first when written
Building Pyramids
Great pyramid was considered a part of the 7 wonders
450 ft tall and weighs about 3 tons
3,000 workers spent 80 years building
Religion
Afterlife
Egyptions loved their gods
Feared Ammut
Ammut was the devourer
Could gobble people up
After death they headed to afterlife
Heart as light as feather
Couldn’t enter if not
Mummification
To reach afterlife the body and soul had to be recovered
Ka means the soul
Body mummified to keep the ka
Many steps to mummify
Body has to be dried and washed
Organs removed and kept in jars
Body filled with sand
Creation Myth
Ra created other gods
Ra was god of sun
Orisis was god of the underworld
Anubis was god of mummification and embalming
Protected the dead
Symbol of life, death, and ressurection
Most power
Economy
Agriculture
Agriculture was main activity in economics
Wheat and barley grown by farmers
Cucumbers, melons, grapes, dates, beans, onions
Flax used for linens
Trade
No money so they traded
Barely used as money
Easy to pay with
Goods transported to countries
Countries around the Mediterranean Sea
Main exports were gold or minerals
Crafts
Made in small shops
Textiles, pottery, bricks, tools, glass, weapons, and more
Craftsmen made things
Made the mask of tut
carvings of gods showed respect
Craftsmen worked for the wealthy
