Transcript Section 4 PowerPoint "Egyptian Civilization"

Chapter 2
Section 4
EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION
Religion Shapes Life
 Early on > Chief God > Sun God >
Re
 Later on >Lord of the Gods >
Amon-Re
 Osiris > God of the Dead & the Nile
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Wife > Isis > Goddess
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Egyptians related more to these two gods
Promised faithful > life after death
 Amenhotep IV (Akhenaton) tried
to change religion
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Wanted worship of Aton (minor god)
View of Afterlife
 Had to pass a test to win eternal life
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Osiris the judge
Book of the Dead
 Mummification
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Preservation of dead bodies
First rulers & nobles > later ordinary Egyptians
 Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamen “King Tut”
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Only minor king
Chamber was filled with treasures
Egyptian Society
Pharaoh
Govt. Officials & High Priests
Merchants, Scribes, Artisans
Peasants (farmers)
•Peasants
•Worked the land
•In the off season they worked for the pharaoh
•Egyptian women
•High status
•Inherit property, divorce, etc.
•Not just confined to the house
Advances in Learning
 Developed writing > hieroglyphics
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Used as records
 Created cursive writing > hieratic
 Also learned to make paper like
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material from papyrus
Deciphered writings from the Rosetta
Stone
Learned anatomy > mummification
Egyptian calendar is basis for ours
Developed geometry to survey the
land
Egyptian Art & Literature
 Art
 Statues
 Wall paintings
 Carvings on temples
 Literature
 Emergence of folk tales
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The Tale of Sinuhe