Chapter 2 Section 2

Global History I

Mr. Schoff

OA

In Chapter 2 Section 2, describe what The Great Sphinx is.

Turn to page 30 and read about Egyptian tombs.

I heard it helps to write it down… Hieroglyphics – picture writing used to keep

track of important information Carved on stone, preserved for thousands of

years Pictograms that depicted objects, carved

onto monuments, temples Written language became more complex

Ideograms – pictures that symbolized an idea or action

Hieroglyphs

Keep writing…

Scribes developed demotic – simpler form of writing

Papyrus was usedPaper not used until 100 AD in China

Much easier to use than chiseling into stone

Official histories still carved onto stone for preservation purposes

Uhh, can you decipher that for me??? New Kingdom went into decline,

Egyptians forgot what hieroglyphs meant

1800s French scholar, Jean Champollion decoded the Rosetta StoneFlat, black stone has same message

carved into 3 different forms of script• Hieroglyphics, demotic, Greek

Now historians could read Egyptian history

Advances Believed in many forms of magic

Learned a great deal about the human body through mummifying

Observed symptoms, diagnosed, found cures, performed surgeries

• Anise, castor beans, saffron (still used today) Calendar – 12 months, 30 days, 5 days added on at

end of each year Became basis for our calendar (with minor changes)

Developed geometry for surveying land, calculate exact size and location of each block of stone to be placed in a pyramid or temple

Many advances in statues, paintings, poems, and tales Drawings – stiff, standard poses, heads/limbs in profile,

eyes/shoulders facing viewer

Pharaohs

High Priests and Priestesses

Nobles

Craftspeople and Merchants

Peasant Farmers

Slaves

What’s wrong here…

The vizier, who was seen as a god as well as a king, was linked closely to the chief god Isis.

Amon-Re!

What’s wrong here…

Only the nobles believed in the afterlife.

All Egyptians, from nobles to peasants, believed in the afterlife.

What’s wrong here…

Egyptian civilization was basically a classless society.

Like other early civilizations, Egypt had a fairly rigid class system.

What’s wrong here…

Like women in most of the ancient world, Egyptian women were held in low status and had very little independence.

Egyptian women generally enjoyed a higher status and greater independence than women in the rest of the ancient world.

What’s wrong here…

Priests and scribes used a form of picture writing called papyrus to keep track of unimportant information.

Hieroglyphics, important writing!

What’s wrong here…

Egyptians made very few advances in learning and the arts.

Great advances in medicine, astronomy, math, painting, and sculpture!

Secrets of the Pyramids

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