cyber day

Notes:

• geography 
• egyptian life is centered around the nile river
• water for drinking, irrigating, bathing, transportation
• every July it floods
• every October it leaves behind rich soil
• the delta is a broad, marshy triangukar area of fertile silt
• managing the river required technological breakthroughs in irrigation
• pyramids 
• the Great Sphinx of Giza
• built 2555-2532 BC
• lion with humans head
• oldest monumental statue in the world
• daily life
• slaves/servants helped the wealthy with household and childraising duties 
• raised wheat, barley, lentils, onions - benefitted from irrigation of the Nile
• artisans would carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes in the afterlife
• money/barter system was used- merchants might accept bags of grain for payment- later, coinage came about
• scribes kept records, told stories, wrote poetry, described anatomy and medical treatments
• they wrote in hieroglyphs and in hieratic
• soldiers used woboden weapons (bows&arrows, spears) w/ bronze tips and might ride chariots
• upper class, known as the "white kilt class"- priests, physicians, engineers
• religious and political leader
• pharaohs 
• the political and religious leader of the Egyptian people, holding the titles: 'Lord of the Lands' and 'High Priest of Every Temple'
• as the 'Lord of the Two Lands' the pharaoh was that ruler of Upper and Lower Egypt. He owned all the land, made laws, collected taxes, defended Egypt against foreigners
• Hatshepsut was a woman that served the pharaoh
• Cleopatra VII also served as pharaoh, but much later(51-30BC)
• Goddesses & Gods
•  over 2000 gods and goddesses 
• they "controlled" the lives of humans