Today in class we presented our power points, these are some of my notes:
- Estimated 20,000 to 30,000 workers to built the Pyramids at Giza over 80 B.C
- The Sphinx is located in Giza, Egypt
- King Tut reigned for 9 years
- Hieroglyphs was a formal writing system used by ancient Egypt
- Probably first writing that existed
- They developed a numbering system, their keeping track of their population
- People who wrote them are called scribes
- The first time in history, this came along
- The Nile - the longest river in the world
- The main river in Egypt
- They knew when it flooded and how to use it for good, soil and plant
- Was their transportation and religion
- 4,184 miles in length
- Can produce fertile soil contributed by the annual spring floods
- Provided irrigation, even in ancient times
- Also used for drinking
- One of the first people in the world who believed in after life
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