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Social structure in Ancient Egypt

Beliefs and Religion

Medicine and Physicians

Mathematics Astronomy

The spread of Egypt's advanced knowledge

Sphinx Pyramids and Temples

The Nile River

Most senior official Vizier was responsible for:

Egypt was a hierarchical society

Pharaoh's finance

deciding what will be collected

managed government activities like construction

This meant that people were not equal and did not have the same amount of power or resource

Most important person is the pharaoh

what's did the Egyptian believe in?

what's polytheism

gods

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

polytheism is the belief or warship of many gods

when you make the gods angry you would be published

the type of punishment included death, illness starvation and drought

Calendars

The use of maths

Astronomy

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

Measuring time

Predicting

flood in the Nile river

Building tombs, pyramids and other monuments

Dividing area of land

working out taxes

Counting money

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

Pyramids and temples

Name most famous pyramid

What are pyramids

Spinx

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

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the most famous pyramid

Pyramids are huge structure built from stone blocks

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

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