Transcript ancient egypt section 2 school

ANCIENT EGYPT
SECTION 2
THE OLD KINGDOM
LIFE IN THE OLD
KINGDOM
 Egypt belonged to the Gods
 Pharaoh “managed” Egypt for the Gods
 Pharaoh was the voice of the Gods
 Were also blamed when things went wrong
KHUFU
 Most famous of the
Old Kingdom
 Known for
monuments built to
him
 Cheops- The Great
Pyramid
SOCIETY
TRADE
 With Nubia in the south
 Gold, copper, ivory, (slaves and stone for building
projects)
 With Syria in the northeast
 wood
RELIGION
 Polytheistic
 Many gods for many things
 Some cities were centers for the worship of a specific
god.
GODS
 RE-SUN GOD
 OSIRIS- GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD
 ISIS- GODDESS OF MAGIC
 HORUS- SKY GOD/ GOD OF THE
PHARAOHS
 ANUBIS- GOD OF THE DEAD
 BAST- GODDESS OF MISCHIEF
THE AFTERLIFE
 Egyptian afterlife like Christian belief of “Heaven”
 Everything is perfect
 Ka
 Person’s life force
 Ka stayed in the burial site and had needs
 Egyptians buried things with the body to satisfy the ka in
the afterlife
MUMMIFICATION
 Wanted the person to look the same in the afterlife as
they did in life
 Spirit had to recognize the body, or the bond between the
body and spirit would be broken.
 Preserve the body
 Applied to royalty or the elite
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1. organs taken out (someone pretending
to be Anubis)
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2. organs put in urns
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3. wrapped body placed in a sarcophagus
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Sarcophagus= case like a coffin
PYRAMIDS
 Wonders of the world
 People wonder how they were made
 Aliens?
 Thousands worked constantly
 Slaves used
 How did they move such large rocks?
PYRAMIDS
 SECRET PATHWAYS, TRAPS AND TUNNELS