AIM: How did Egyptians organize their society? Do Now: What is going on below? Explain? HW: Choose...
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AIM : How did Egyptians organize their society? Do Now : What is going on below? Explain? HW : Choose someone in Ancient Egyptian society (pharaoh, slave, etc.). For that person describe hour by hour what their day would consist of. (Ex. 7am wake up; 8am have my servants
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AIM: How did Egyptians organize their society?
Do Now: What is going on below? Explain?
HW: Choose someone in Ancient Egyptian society (pharaoh, slave, etc.). For that person describe hour by hour what their day would consist of. (Ex. 7am wake up; 8am have my servants bring me breakfast…)
Egyptian SocietyEgyptian Society
I. Egyptian Kingdoms become one. 1. Menes: Unified Lower & Upper Egypt around 3100 BC.
II. Religious Beliefs1. Polytheistic: belief in many gods controlling earth.2. Mummification: process of preseriving the dead.
A. Afterlife Happy Field of Food or Devourer of Souls3. Pharaohs: god-kings of Egypt.4. Chief gods: Isis, Osiris, Amon-Re, Anubis
III. Kingdoms of the NileOld Kingdom2650-2134 BC
Middle Kingdom2040-1640 BC
New Kingdom1550-1070 BC
Achievements Built enormous tombs & pyramids.
Land drained for farming.
Traded with lands along the Red &
Mediterranean Sea.
Decline Power struggles, crop failures, &
cost of pyramids.
Hittites invaded & conquered.
Nubians, then others, invaded.
IV. Social Order
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Priests
Nobles/Warriors
Scribes
Merchants
Peasants/Slaves
Pharaohs
