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• Nile River is 5000mls long
• Major life provider
• Governed by a God King
• -Pharaoh all powerful, worshipped as a god and immediately connected to the other major Egyptian gods and goddesses
• Egyptians relied on a harmony and balance of the universe, called "maat"
• Pharaohs has multiple wines, sometimes sisters
• Women could inherit money and land, and divorce their husbands
• Gods, Humans, and Everlasting Life
• Often portrayed with animal heads or bodies
• Believed in afterlife and mummified bodies to preserve them for this post-death journey
• All souls would need to justify themselves at the point of death and be either sent to an after-world paradise, or the jaws of a monster
• The Writing of the Words of gods
• Writing formed c.3100BC and were small pictures know as hieroglyphs
• Represented religious words or parts of words
• Papyrus the precursor to paper was stored in scrolls and these scrolls were the books or ancient Egypt
• Astronomers created a calendar with 365 days to make better sense of the seasonal cycles
• Egyptian doctors wrote extensively on health issues and created potions and cures for a number of common ailments
• Wooden sailboats were constructed to increase transport ability on the Nile
• Pyramids and Temples
• The pyramids were massive stone tombs, originally covered with marble
• Some stuff was stolen and raided
• Stone sculptures and interior painting depicted humans and gods in series of regulated poses often in profile and without perspective, but were highly effective