Egypt Notes From The Power Point
- Upper Egypt was a five hundred mile long strip of fertile land along the Nile; Lower Egypt was the wide land of the Nile delta, emptying into the Mediterranean Sea.
- The Nile was the major provider of life for the Egyptians and was much revered in lore and writing.
- Around 3100 B.C. the two lands were united under a single king or "pharaoh" (Narmer).
- Pharaoh was all powerful, worshipped as a god, and intimately connected to the other major Egyptian gods and goddesses.
- Egyptians relied on a harmony and balance of the universe, which they called "meat" (personified by the goddess Maat; ideological opposites of goddess Isfet).
- Pharaohs had multiple wives, all routes to financial and social success were through the palace.
- Women could inherit money and land and divorce their husbands, though only a tiny few ever wielded real political power.
- Gods were often portrayed with animal heads or bodies.
- Egyptians believed in an afterlife (Ka) and they mummified bodies to preserve them for this post-death journey.
- All souls would need to justify themselves at the point of death and be either sent to an after-world paradise, or the jaws of a monster.
- Earliest Egyptian writing formed c. 3100 B.C. and were small pictures known as hieroglyphics.
- The Nile was the major provider of life for the Egyptians and was much revered in lore and writing.
- Around 3100 B.C. the two lands were united under a single king or "pharaoh" (Narmer).
- Pharaoh was all powerful, worshipped as a god, and intimately connected to the other major Egyptian gods and goddesses.
- Egyptians relied on a harmony and balance of the universe, which they called "meat" (personified by the goddess Maat; ideological opposites of goddess Isfet).
- Pharaohs had multiple wives, all routes to financial and social success were through the palace.
- Women could inherit money and land and divorce their husbands, though only a tiny few ever wielded real political power.
- Gods were often portrayed with animal heads or bodies.
- Egyptians believed in an afterlife (Ka) and they mummified bodies to preserve them for this post-death journey.
- All souls would need to justify themselves at the point of death and be either sent to an after-world paradise, or the jaws of a monster.
- Earliest Egyptian writing formed c. 3100 B.C. and were small pictures known as hieroglyphics.
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