1. How do you think daily life for a teenager in Egyptian society might have been? How would it be similar or differ from your life? Bell Ringer

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3. Turn in Children’s Book

4. Grade LL

5. Mummification Process

6. King Tut One of the richest archaeological discoveries ever made Tomb contained wealth of treasures Tut buried in magnificent golden coffin Hundreds of items in tomb for pharaoh to enjoy in the afterlife Why were such riches buried with the pharaoh? TPS Canopic Jars

7. Secondary Source King Tut

8.  Top  pharaoh/family – gov’t officials, priests, priestesses, military leaders, doctors and land owners, look familiar…?  Middle  Artisans, craftspeople, merchants  Bottom  90% of population – peasant farmers. Recruited during flood season on public works/pyramids  Slaves – not many usually criminals/prisoners of war Social Structure

9. Varied from class to class Pharaohs usually married their sister, why do you think TPS ◦To keep the blood pure in the royal family ◦Royalty polygamists, most Egyptian men had one wife ◦Poor Families usually in tiny huts ◦Wealthier perhaps had mud or brick homes with a few rooms ◦Nobles had huge palaces Home/Marriage/Family Life

10. Generally what were their rights during ancient civilizations?? Egyptian women mainly cared for home/children ◦Had many rights could be priestesses, own and inherit property, create wills and divorce their husbands. ◦Work as hairdressers, wigmakers, singers and in other similar jobs. Why was Egypt different than other ancient civ. Regarding women’s rights? What does it teach us about their society? TPS Children taught trade of father/duties of mother ◦A few wooden toys ◦Pets dogs/monkeys/cats/ducks Women/Children

11. Shaved Heads Wore wigs fashion/protection from sun. Men/women wore makeup/perfume/dark eyeliner, women lipstick/rogue Linen/wool clothing – peasants loincloths. Wealthy men long skirts/robes. All women long dresses. Jewelry for all. Children of all classes did not wear clothes until adolescence. What does this teach us about Egyptian lifestyle? LL Enjoyed wrestling, javelin throw, dancing boating, hunting, swam, fished, sailed. Also played board games Appearance/Custom

12. Art drawn flat/Gods bigger than people/statues large to show power sphinx/excellent at including tiny details Incredible story tellers, hieroglyphics – Egyptian writing system, uses picture symbols to represent objects, sounds, ideas Second oldest writing system to……..???? Cuneiform Papyrus – reedy plant that grew along the Nile Made for excellent paper like sheets once dried. LL What made it possible for us to have these preserved until today? Dry climate preserved many of their writings Rosetta Stone – long passages of ancient writing 1799 French soldier near rosetta delta, written in 3 languages (hieroglyphic, deomotic, and ancient Greek) used Greek to decode hieroglyphics) Art – Science – Writing - Math

13. Excellent grasp of basic math/obviously of engineering to build……. Medicine-greatest scientific advances Doctors understood anatomy/treated home and Temples/healing centers Used medicines from plants/animals Had patients bathe regularly to prevent sickness continued

14. Design an Egyptian Temple Independently, you are an architect in ancient Egypt put in charge of designing a NEW temple (not a pyramid). Select one of the gods of Egypt (found in book or electronic research). Then draw “blueprints” and pictures of what the interior and exterior of the temple will look like. Create designs for murals, statues, and other art that will be used in the temple.