Test Review for Monday

The test on Monday is mostly about : 

• Geography 
• Daily Life
• Pharaohs
• Goddess & Gods
• Pyramids

Geography :

• Egyptian life is centered around the Nile River
• Use it for planting crops, transpiration, drinking, bathing, for irrigating
• Lives there because most other places are deserts and dry
• Flows north, only river in the world that flows north
• North because country's below have mountains with higher elevation
• First people to invent to sail so they could sail north and south
• Every July it floods
• Every October it leaves behind rich soil and slit 
• Manging the river required technological breakthroughs in irrigation
• First people to use a calender 
• They figured out night and day, the moons to tell the months, the seasons colder and hotter at a certain time, and then a year 
• Then you can tell where specialized workers when to work
• The Delta is a broad, marshy triangular area of fertile silt 
• The Great Sphinx of Giza 
• Face - Is a wise person
• Body -  a laying lion, relaxed and watching
• a recumbent lion with a human's head
• oldest monumental statue in the world, 45 hundred years
• built 2555-2532BC
• Notes on Video :
• The Greeks had a myth about what were in those pyramids 
• When they were built, gold bricks stuck together that you couldn't fit a knife between them
• Classes lowest to highest : Slaves and servants, farmers, artisans - craftsmen, merchant, scribes - educated and knew how to write, soldiers, government officials - nobles and priests, pharaohs
• Slaves/Servants : helped the wealthy, with housework and child raising
• Farmers : raised wheat, barley, lentils, onions - benefited from irrigation of the Nile 
• Artisans : would carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes in the afterlife 
• Merchants : money/barter system was used - merchants might accept bags of grain for payment - later, coinage and money came about and a system of money
• Scribes - kept records, told stories about the soliders and pharaohs, wrote poems, described anatomy and medical treatments, they wrote in hieroglyphs and in hieratic, which were ABC's
• Soldiers: used wooden weapons (bows,arrow, spears) with bronze tips and might ride chariots
• Upper class, known as the 'white kit class' priests, physicians, engineers 
• Pharaohs : Religious and political leader of the Egyptian people holding the titles, 'Lord of the Two Lands' 
• As 'Lord of the Two Lands' the pharaoh was the ruler of Upper and Lower Egypt, He owned all land, made laws, collected taxes, & defended Egyptian foreigners  
• Hetshepsut was a women who served as pharaoh 
• Cleopatra VII also served as pharaoh, but much later (51-39 BC) more on her when we study Greece