Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Ancient Egypt
- Afterlife
- Tombs
- Built many years
in advance
- Very elaborate
- Tombs with things needed in the afterlife
- Only important people were bueried in tombs
- Excited to die
- Live with the gods
- Mummification
prepared body for
afterlife
- Embalming/Mummification
- Beliefs
- Pharoh was a descendant of the gods
- Tombs
- Many gods
- Polytheistic
- Main gods
- Osiris - king of the underworld
- Amun Re - God of the sun
- Horus - God of the sky
- Anubis - god of the dead
- Isis - godess of rebirth
- Hathor - Godess or love and joy (protector)
- Contact and Trade
- With other civiliations
- Traded essential living needs
- Wheat
- Barley
- Flax
- Rope
- Paparyus
- Honey
- Cedar Oil
- Incesce
- Copper
- Silver
- Ivory
- Semi-precious stones
- Extended as far as Somalia
- Boats on the nile collected goods
- Animals for transport of goods
- Gained recources through
trade and war
- Pharoh's power
- Power over upper and lover egypt
- Double Crown
- Responsible for annual floods
- Responsible for food
- Ma'at
- Told others he was a
descendent of a god
- Mostly male
- Location
- Egypt
- Along the nile river
- Amarna - middle egypt
- Thebes - upper egypt
- Memphis - lower egypt
- Sahara desert - dry, empty
- All main settlements along the nile river
- North Africa - bare land
- Lower egypt is the top of the map
- Upper egypt is the bottom of the map
- Nile river- highway
- Annual flooding
- Water
- Fish
- Floods - good soil
- Great for supplies
- Used boats along the nile