Notes on Egypt Quiz

Geography

• Egyptian life is centered around the Nile
• Nile used for water for drinking, irrigaitng, and for bathing, and transportation
• first people to ever make a sail and use them
• ever July the Nile floods
• every October it leaves behnd rich soil
• managing the river rquired technological breakthroughs in irigation
• first people to figure out the calendar
• the delta is a broad marshy triangular area of fertile soil

Daily life

• Socila Strata
• Slaves and servants = helped the wealthy: household chores etc
• Farmers - grains, lentils, barley, onions
• Artisans - crafters, carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and heroic deeds, and their leaders
• Merchants - money/barter system was used, might accept grain as payment. later coinage came about
• Scribes - kept records, told sotries, wrote poetry, described anatomy and medical treatments.
• wrote with hieroglyphics and hieratic
• Soldiers
• Government Officials - Nobles, Priests
• Pharoh

Pyramids

• The Great Sphinx of Giza
• a recumbant lion with a human's head
• oldest monumental statue in the world