Transcript Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt
One people, one language
“Gift of the Nile”
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4,100 miles – longest
river in the world
Predictable flooding
Natural boundaries:
desert, Red Sea,
Mediterranean Sea
Reason Egypt lasted so
long and was so stable
Impacts religion
Egyptian Religion
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Sun god or river of life: Re or Amon-Re
god of the dead- Osiris (How does his story
reflect geography?)
Ka- spirit of life that leaves the body and would
return if body was mummified correctly
Pharaoh was considered a god (in Mesopotamia
the king was a representative)
Religion had an ethical component to it
Ma’at = order, truth, justice, righteousness
Gods
Gods
Mummification
Qebehsenuef, the
falcon head -intestines
Duamutef, the jackal
head -- stomach
Hapy, the baboon
head -- lungs
Imsety, the human
head -- liver
Pyramids – tombs of the Pharoahs
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13 square acres
490 feet tall
2.3 million blocks
Blocks weighed 2 tons
Took 20 to 25 years top
build
Number of workers:
20,000 to 25,000
Inside the Pyramid
Quarries
Building
Building
Egyptian Tombs
Old Kingdom
Middle Kingdom – Grand Canal
Middle Kingdom - Jewelry
Showed the affluence
of the age
Middle Kingdom-Jewelry
Middle Kingdom
New Kingdom
Hatshepsut
Focused on
increasing trade
in Egypt and
with its
neighbors
Thutmosis III
Expanded Egyptian
Territory to its
farthest boundaries
Late New Kingdom Religion
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Religion moves from ethical to superstition and
magic
Priest become more powerful
-began selling magic charms and prayers, the
collection of these is known as the Book of the
Dead
Amenhotep IV
Drives priest away and
confiscated their lands
 Forced Egyptians to
worship new god, Aten
-Egyptian religion
becomes monotheistic
 Amenhotep IV changes
name to Akhenaten and
creates a new capital
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Nefertiti – wife of Amenhotep IV
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Potratiat head reflects
new art style called
Amarna
Amarna style main
component is
naturalism
The new capital and
new religion
bankrupted Egypt and
led to drastic changes
after his death
Ramesses II
• the
Ramesses mentioned
in the Bible
•Built Great Temples
•Fought the Hittites at the
Battle of Kadesh
Mortuary Temple of Queen
Hatshepsut
Temple of Amon, Karnak
Great Court of Ramesses II
Valley of the Kings
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Where New Kingdom
pharaohs were buried
Location of King Tut
Discovered untouched in
1922 by Howard Carter
Does the curse of King Tut
exist?
"Death Comes On Wings
To He Who Enters The
Tomb Of A Pharaoh"
King Tutankhamen
Weighs:
460 pounds of
Gold
Throne