History

History

1. Social structure in Ancient Egypt

   • Most senior official Vizier was responsible for:
     • Pharaoh's finance
     • deciding what will be collected
     • managed government activities like construction
   • Egypt was a hierarchical society
     • This meant that people were not equal and did not have the same amount of power or resource
     • Most important person is the pharaoh

2. Beliefs and Religion

   • what's did the Egyptian believe in?
     • Egyptian believed in over 2000 gods
     • the Egyptian believed that's when someone died, the went to the afterlife or the next world.
     • Egyptian believed that the gods controlled everything what happened on earth
   • what's polytheism
     • polytheism is the belief or warship of many gods
   • gods
     • when you make the gods angry you would be published
       • the type of punishment included death, illness starvation and drought

3. Medicine and Physicians

   • Medicines still used today
     • they were made from plants, herbs and minerals
     • physicians used ointment for wounds and the treated chest complaints by getting the pateint to breathe steam
     • believe spell would help the sick. l
       • when no one could explain why someone had disease.
       • spell and magical potions were used to drive out the spirits
     • surgery was used for removing tumours or swellings near the surface of the skin. treating wounds and dealing with boils abscessess
     • special jewellery and carried as protection against disease
     • they had surgical instruments like probes, saws, forceps, scalpels, scissors, copper needles and pincers
     • Honey was use as an antiseptic to treat wounds and anaesthetics during surgery
     • knew to check someone pulse to find the heart rate
   • practices of embalming dead bodies
   • Had specialised physician( doctors) who treated illness
   • discover how the human body works

4. Mathematics Astronomy

   • Calendars
     • was based on the agriculture season and the Nile flood predictions
     • Had 365 days a year, 12 months with 30 days each and 5 days for fasting at the end of the year
   • The use of maths
     • Measuring time
     • Predicting
     • flood in the Nile river
     • Building tombs, pyramids and other monuments
     • Dividing area of land
     • working out taxes
     • Counting money
   • Astronomy
     • Egyptian were good in astronomers, records of the positions and movement of the planets
     • knew how to calculate the ways the starts moved and the season and phases of the moon
     • The temples and pyramids positioned in relation to the stars and other constellation
     • The astonomers used sun day to tell the time, diving the days into 24 hours. they divided the night into 36 groups of stars called Decans, which could be used to tell time

5. The spread of Egypt's advanced knowledge

   • trade
     • firelighter or fire sticks
     • painted wooden chests showings tutankhumen hunting wild animals or in battle
     • Basket and jar full of medicinal herbs for headaches and fever
     • statues of gods and goddesses
     • Board games
     • few bed, including one that folded up for travelling
   • spread of knowledge
     • spread to other nearby places like Europe and the middle east
     • Greek scholars like pythagoras and archimedes
     • Egyptian traded with people from other areas their knowledge and ideas in art architecture astronomy medicine geometry mathematics, law politics education philiospy religion
   • whats ancient Egyptian did for us
     • create the world's first national government
     • developed one of the first religion to give importance of life after death
     • Create 365 DAY CALENDAR
     • Made writing paper from stems of papyrus plant
     • built great cities in which many skilled architecture doctors engineers painters and sculptor work

6. Sphinx Pyramids and Temples

   • Pyramids and temples
     • first temple was built right in front of the Sphinx
     • Egyptian believed that temples are dedicated to particular god or goddess and people warshipped him or her inside the temple
     • The pyramids gave clues about how Egyptian people lived
     • Ancient Egyptian scribes wrote things down using small picture. each picture was called hieroglyph
   • Name most famous pyramid
     • The Great Pyramid of Giza is the most famous pyramid
   • What are pyramids
     • Pyramids are huge structure built from stone blocks
   • Spinx
     • Is a sandstone statue of a mythical creature with lion body and human head.
     • It stands in front of Giza Pyramids. World'd largest and oldest statues
     • World'd largest and oldest statues
   • Tutankhuamen's tomb
     • treasure had been put in the tomb to help tutankhamen in the afterlife
     • buried in the valley at the kings, the traditional burial place of pharaohs
     • most famous pharaoh
     • become pharaoh at the age of 8-9 and died at age of 18

7. The Nile River

   • What was the Nile River used for
     • Papyrus reeds which grew along the river banks. it is used to make building materials and paper
     • Hunting hippos and river birds for food
     • Mud to make bricks
     • Transportation of building materials and goods for trading in villages along the river
     • Fishing
     • drinking water for large settlement people
     • irrigation for their fields

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