Transcript Egyptian Society Status of Women Most privileges were left to upper

Partner Discussion Question
• After looking at the three
previous maps about Egypt,
what guesses could you make
about their climate, society,
and government?
• Annual Flooding
– Kemet (Black Land):
• 3 Seasons determined by the Nile:
– Inundation
– Receding Waters
– Drought
• Governments role
• Control Flooding HOW???
• Closer to river
–If the land had
to be irrigated…
–Taxes
• Pre-Unification:
– By 4000 BC Egypt
– Lower Egypt
– Upper Egypt
• Old Kingdom:
– Around 3000 BC
Narmer/Menes
– Narmer/Menes capital
– Narmer/Menes first Dynasty
Review Question
• What do you call a government
in where the government is
ruled politically by a religious
leader who claims to be either a
god or interpreting the will of
the gods?
• The Egyptian Monarchy:
– Theocracy
– Egyptians kings VIEWED AS????
• Government Setup:
– Bureaucracy
– Vizier WHO WAS THIS???
– Provinces and Governors
• King Djoser:
– Step Pyramid
• King Snefru:
– First Pyramid
• King Khufu (Cheops)
– Pyramids at Giza
• King Khafre:
– Great Sphinx
Partner Discussion Question
• What is the difference in the
way in which the Egyptians
used the Pyramids compared to
the way in which the
Mesopotamians used the
Ziggurat?
1. The Old Kingdom was…
2. Known as a Golden Age: WHY?
-6 Reasons:
1. Hyksos are from…
2. Used their…
3. Ruled Egypt for…
Age of Great
Pharaohs:
Pharaoh:
Hatshepsut: (1480 BC)
-Facts:
Queen Hapshepsut’s
Temple
Amenhotep
1. Changes his name
to…
2. Why?
3. Tried to make all of Egypt…
4. Problems with all the change:
5. New Pharaoh…
Ramses II-the Great
1. Was one of the 1st if not
the 1st to use…
2. Ruled for …
3. After his death Egypt began to decline. WHY?
1. Upper Class consists of…
1. Facts:
2. Middle Class consists
of…
1. Facts:
3. Lower class consists
of…
1. Facts:
List a similarity and difference between
Mesopotamia’s social structure with that of Egypt
Egyptian Society
Status of
Women
Most privileges were
left to
upper/middle class
1. Usually lived in…
2. Marriages were…
1. Girls married at…
2. Boys married at…
3. Purpose of marriage was…
4. Monogamy was the…
Polytheistic
Gods and Goddesses
were..
Believed in….
1. Earliest…
2. Picture symbols…
3. Didn’t use…
1. Used…
4. Very few people…
5. The meaning of…
6. Napoleon's men
found the Rosetta
Stone in 1799, but…