Transcript GRAPES of Ancient Egypt Powerpoint

Ancient Egypt GRAPES
Pt 2
Review From Last Class
Religion: Polytheistic
God of natural things
Gods act like humans but are
immortal
 Afterlife is like a paradise
 Mummies were preserved
bodies so a person could be
whole in the after life
 Pyramids were royal tombs
were pharaohs would live in the
Afterlife
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Other Accomplishments
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365 Calendar to predict Nile floods
Hieroglyphics
Egyptian form of writing
based on pictures
(pictographs)
 Some stood for sounds,
others for words
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Papyrus
Scrolls made from
reeds
 Equivalent of
paper
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Medicine
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Invented
surgery
Politics
Pharaoh
King
 Egyptians believed
the pharaoh was
the son of Re, the
sun god
 Carried out rituals
 Part of a theocracy
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Menes Unites Upper & Lower Egypt
C. 3100 BCE: Pharaoh
Narmer (aka Menes)
 King of Upper Egypt
 Led his armies north
to conquer Lower
Egypt
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Capitol
Where would
you put the
capitol if you
were Narmer?
Palette of Narmer
Dynasty
A line of rulers from the same family
Can you think of any American political
dynasties?
Old Kingdom
Begins c. 2600 BCE
 Age when most of the pyramids were built
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c. 4000 BCE Sumerian city
states develop
2340 BCE
Sargon starts
an empire in
Mesopotamia
Khufu: Great Pyramid of Giza
Middle Kingdom
c. 1800’s
Hammurabi
rules
Babylon
The Hyksos
People from
Arabian
Peninsula
 Crossed the
desert in
chariots
 Bronze weapons
 Ended the
Middle Kingdom
& ruled Egypt
for about 150
years from
1670-1550 BCE
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New Kingdom
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Started when a prince named Ahmose
drove out the Hyksos in c. 1550 BCE
c. 900 BCE c. 670 BCE
Assyrians
Neotake over
Babylonians
Mesopotamia
Hatshepsut
Came to power c. 1473 BCE
 Was supposed to help her
nephew rule but just made
herself pharaoh
 Girl Power!
 Made Egypt rich through trade
along the Red Sea
 Used the wealth to build a
great tomb in the Valley of
the Kings at Deir-el-Bahri
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Deir el Bahri
Amenhotep IV aka Akhenton
C. 1370 BCE
 Amenhotep wanted
to stop the priests
from getting too
powerful so he
started his own
religion
 Based it on worship
of one god “Aten”, a
manifestation of the
sun god Ra
 People hated it!!!
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Tutankhamen
Ruled from c. 1330
BCE
 Restored old
religion
 Famous for his
tomb with tons of
treasure and
mummies
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Ramses II
Ruled from c. 1279
to 1213 BCE
 Gained land for
Egypt
 Built many new
buildings for Egypt
including the
temple at Abu
Semple
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Abu Semple
Economic
Used the Nile to
trade
 Grew flax, wheat,
barley
 Lots of natural
resources like
precious metals
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Social