1. Ancient Egypt What do you already know about the pictures below?

2. Nile River
Flows from South to North
Starts in mountains & empties into Mediterranean Sea

5. Nile floods yearly leaving rich silt
Papyrus grows here=makes paper

6. King Narmer united Upper & Lower Egypt- 1st dynasty around 3100 BC
Ancient Egyptians
King Narmer united Upper & Lower Egypt- 1st dynasty around 3100 BC
Theocracy

8. Old Kingdom BC
Pyramids
Tombs for kings
Start as—mastabas (rectangular burial mounds)
Built mastaba on top of another mastaba= step pyramids

10. Bent Pyramid

12. Pyramids of Giza—Great Pyramid built for Khufu
Ancient Egyptians
Pyramids of Giza—Great Pyramid built for Khufu
480 ft. tall
Side is 755 ft. long
5.5 million tons of limestone, 8,000 tons of granite (imported from Aswan), and 500,000 tons of mortar

13. Mummification
Removed organs
Spices & salts dried out body
Wrapped in linen
Worldly possessions put in tomb

14. Sarcophagus & Canopic Jars

16. Shabtis: The Pharaoh’s Servants in the Afterlife

18. Middle Kingdom
2050 BC-1640 BC
Hyksos “foreigners”—rule Egypt for 100 yrs. (had bronze weapons & chariots)

19. New Kingdom
1570 BC BC
Prince Ahmose led revolt
Pharaoh “great house”

21. 1503 BC—female pharaoh—Hatshepsut

25. 1370 BC—Akhenaten tried to change religion into monotheism
Deformed elongated face/limbs

27. Tutankhamun ruled from age 8 until age 19 Mysterious death
1333 BC– King Tut
Tutankhamun ruled from age 8 until age 19
Mysterious death
Tomb intact & filled with treasure in 1922
"Death comes on wings to he who enters the tomb of a pharaoh."

28. King tut

33. 1200 BC—Ramses II ruled for 67 yrs.
Built massive monuments
Pharaoh from the exodus story

34. seti

35. Ramses II

36. Polytheists
Gods - part animal, part human, married each other, had children
Afterlife - judged by Osiris w/ sacred feather

38. Egyptian writing=hieroglyphics

40. Science, Math, & Medicine
Calendar
Geometry (used to build pyramids)
Medicine—set broken bones

41. 1st to use make-up & wigs

42. Ancient Egyptians
The Rosetta Stone allowed historians to decode the hieroglyphics