Write using COMPLETE sentences

Which site would you have started Ancient Egypt at? WHY?? Give AT LEAST 3 reasons to support your opinion

DO NOWSept. 28th, 2015 – Week 4

Ancient EGYPT

Agriculture again is the foundation that allowed civilizations to grow

Began in the Sahara Dessert (10,000B.C.E.) - Steppe grass, lakes, rivers & streams - small monarchies ruled throughout Climate Change (5,000 B.C.E.) - became dessert - drove people & animals to Nile River - few larger civilizations formedEgypt & Nubia

Why Build a civilization in Africa?

Grassland to dessert

Why Egypt & Nubia??Relied on Nile River

& Agriculture

Traded with each other

The Gift of the Nile

“ As far as the eye can see, flood waters cover the land. Here and there, villages stand on slight rises above the swirling river”

What are the Seasons of Egypt?

(1) Season of the FloodEvery year the river floods ~100

daysWhile under water the people work

for the pharaoh building temples

(2) Season of Going OutAs water retreats, the mud is plowed

Wheat & Barley is planted

Small garden for personal use

(3) Season of the HarvestHarvest 4 months after planting

People keep 1\2

Rest goes to the Pharaoh as tax

How did Geography and the Nile River give power

and wealth to the Pharaohs?

Food & Money = POWER- Pharaoh Menes - Able to use the Nile

to increase agriculture

- Rose to power & conquered most of Egypt

- created centralized Gov’t led by Pharaohs

Land provides ResourcesThey used the resources

the land provided them to…

Built Pyramids

Built Tombs

Created a strong MilitaryHorse ChariotsBronze Weapons

TOMBS - PYRAMIDS

How did they set up their Government?

Social Structure: Patriatchal

PHARAOHSupreme ruler, God

like

CENTRAL GOV’T1. Military

2. Administrators3. Tax Collectors

Common people could rise

LOWER CLASS1. Peasants

2. SlavesProvide hard labor----------------------------

EXCEPTION- Queen Hatsheput

- Co ruled w\ step son Tuthmosis III

What were Egyptian Achievements ?Sail BoatsHieroglyphics - “Holy

Inscriptions” - 3200B.C.E. - Pictographic &

symbols to represent sounds

- written on papyrus

MummificationOrganized Religion

Religion Polytheistic: different

gods control the forces of nature

Belief in live after death

Prepared carefully for journey through the underworld to the “Happy Field of Food”

Pyramids: tombs filled with food, clothing & jewels needed for the afterlife

What was the Egyptian religion and how did Geography affect it?

GODS

Amon-Re: Sun God, Chief god

Osiris: God of the underworld and of the Nile

(evil Seth, death, wife, resurrected)

Measure of a heart – Osiris

How did Egypt fall?

Assyrian Army attacked from the North

Kushite Dynasty attacked from the south

UNIT: Geography TOPIC: Ancient Egypt

PROMPT: Explain THREE ways the Nile River

affected Ancient Egypt.Then answer the question:

Would Ancient Egypt exist without the Nile? Defend your answer

JOURNAL ENTRY – Sept. 28th 2015