1. AIM: How did Egyptians organize their society?
Do Now: What is going on below? Explain?
HW: Choose someone in Ancient Egyptian society (pharaoh, slave, etc.). For that person describe hour by hour what their day would consist of. (Ex. 7am  wake up; 8am  have my servants bring me breakfast…)

2. Egyptian Kingdoms become one.
Egyptian Society
Egyptian Kingdoms become one.
Menes: Unified Lower & Upper Egypt around 3100 BC.
Religious Beliefs
Polytheistic: belief in many gods controlling earth.
Mummification: process of preseriving the dead.
Afterlife  Happy Field of Food or Devourer of Souls
Pharaohs: god-kings of Egypt.
Chief gods: Isis, Osiris, Amon-Re, Anubis
Kingdoms of the Nile
Old Kingdom BC
Middle Kingdom BC
New Kingdom BC
Achievements
Built enormous tombs & pyramids.
Land drained for farming.
Traded with lands along the Red & Mediterranean Sea.
Decline
Power struggles, crop failures, & cost of pyramids.
Hittites invaded & conquered.
Nubians, then others, invaded.

3. IV. Social Order
Pharaohs

4. Menes: Unifier of Upper & Lower Egypt

5. Egyptian
Home Life

6. Egyptians at Work

8. Egyptian
Social
Order