Study of Ancient Egypt

Egyptian Life• Agriculture• Family life• Marriage• Food and cooking• Jewelry• Clothing

Geography of Egypt

• Location of country• Nile River• Silt

Gods and Goddesses

• Kings relationship to Gods

• What they control

• How to identify them

Mummification• Resurrection of body and life everlasting• Things needed for life after death• Preservation of body• Embalmers and their tools

Pharaoh

• Absolute authority• Controlled all land and resources• Mirror the goddess Ma’at• Delegated responsibilities to others

• Tombs of Kings

• Burial chambers for the Pharaoh

• Materials used in building the Pyramids

Pyramids

Temples

• Importance to Egyptians• Purposes of the temples

• Temple of Karnak at Luxor

Calendars of Ancient Egypt

• Influence of the environment in ancient Egyptians lives

• Civil Calendar

• Lunar Calendar

• Names of the months

Trades

• Skilled Artisans

Carpenters

Stonemasons and Sculptors

Brickmakers

Hieroglyphs

• Hieroglypic characters

• Characters represent common objects

• Numbering system

• Images represent units of 10

• Eye of Horus Fractions

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