The Ancient Egyptians

Satellite photo of Nile River

Nile River“Longest River in the World”

Egypt: The Gift of the Nile

95% of the Egyptian people live on 5% of the land

Annual flooding of the Nile

The Fertile Nile Valley

What can you tell about the Egyptians from the picture?

Irrigation

MenesUnifier of Upper and Lower Egypt

3000 BCE

Ancient Egyptian Housing

Middle Class Housing

Peasant Homes

Daily Life

Social Hierarchy

Theocracy=government in which the religious leaders are also the political leaders

Pharoahs

Queen Hatshepsut

1480 BCE

Thutmose IIIAmenhotep

“Akenaton”

1370 BCE

Akenaton “First Monotheist?”

Ramses

Tutankhamen

Archaeologist Howard Carter 1922

Priestly Class

Scribe

Papyrus = Paper

Hieratic Scroll Piece

Champollion and the Rosetta Stone

Hieroglyphics24 letters plus 700 phonetics

Gods and GoddessesPolytheism

Osiris Isis Horus

Book of the Dead

Anubis weighs heart against

feather

The Final Judgment

Osiris, Anubis, Horus

Trade RoutesNile, Canals to Red Sea, Overland

Innovations

Astronomy

Hieroglyphics

Math based on units of ten

Medical texts

What did you learn?

• 1. The belief in many gods is known asa. Theocracy

b. Polytheism

c. Monotheism

d. Buddhism

• 2. What form of writing did the Egyptians use?a. Cuneiform

b. Barriograms

c. Hieroglyphics

• The combination of religious and political authority in Ancient Egypt may best be described asa. Monotheism

b. Theocracy

c. Oligarchy

d. Monarchy