2/25/15

Today in class we finished the unit. The Nile river was a major life provider for the egyptians. Upper Egypt was was 500 miles. Lower egypt was very wide. The pharaoh was a human on earth but was thought of as a God. The pharaohs could be fired however. Egyptians relied on harmony and balance of the universe which they called maat. if they wanted ti do well i life you would be on the pharaohs good side. In Egypt woman had respect and a type of equality. Woman could inherit money and land and divorce their husbands. There were even a few women pharaohs. Heiroglyphs type of writing was like pictures. Hieratics were more like groups of letters. hieratics were origanilly written on papyrus. Papyrus was like a type of paper that was put in those huge scrolls. They made a 365 day calendar that followed the moon scale. Egyptians noticed things that should be planned out and prepared. Egyptians were very big on human anatomy. The used the dead bodies to find out remedies and cures. Wooden sail boats helped transport things up the Nile and you to go both ways on the Nile. Pyramids were very large they were covered in marble. Thousands of years later they are still standing and must have been engineered perfectly. stone sculptures and interior paintings in regulated poses in profile. people lived in adobes. slaves werent the only people to build a pyramid.