1. The Ancient Egyptians

2. Satellite photo of Nile River

3. Nile River “Longest River in the World”

4. Egypt: The Gift of the Nile 95% of the Egyptian people live on 5% of the land Annual flooding of the Nile

5. The Fertile Nile Valley What can you tell about the Egyptians from the picture?

6. Irrigation

7. Menes Unifier of Upper and Lower Egypt 3000 BCE

8. Ancient Egyptian Housing Middle Class Housing Peasant Homes

9. Daily Life

10. Social Hierarchy Theocracy= government in which the religious leaders are also the political leaders

11. Pharoahs Queen Hatshepsut 1480 BCE Thutmose III Amenhotep “Akenaton” 1370 BCE

12. Akenaton “First Monotheist?”

13. Ramses Tutankhamen

14. Archaeologist Howard Carter 1922

15. Priestly Class

16. Scribe

17. Papyrus = Paper Hieratic Scroll Piece

18. Champollion and the Rosetta Stone

19. Hieroglyphics 24 letters plus 700 phonetics

20. Gods and Goddesses Polytheism Osiris IsisHorus

21. Book of the Dead Anubis weighs heart against feather

22. The Final Judgment Osiris, Anubis, Horus

23. Trade Routes Nile, Canals to Red Sea, Overland

24. Innovations Astronomy Hieroglyphics Math based on units of ten Medical texts

25. What did you learn? 1. The belief in many gods is known as a.Theocracy b.Polytheism c.Monotheism d.Buddhism

26. 2. What form of writing did the Egyptians use? a.Cuneiform b.Barriograms c.Hieroglyphics

27. The combination of religious and political authority in Ancient Egypt may best be described as a.Monotheism b.Theocracy c.Oligarchy d.Monarchy