Notes:
- Managing the river required technological breakthroughs, such as dams, and canals.
- The canals lead through to the Mediterranean Sea
- There were classes of people back in Ancient Egypt
- Slaves or servants helped the wealthy with household and child raising duties
- Artisans would carve statues and reliefs showing military battles an scenes in the afterlife
- Scribes kept records, told stories, and wrote poetry. Also they'd write in hieroglyphs and in hieratic
- Hieroglyphs were pictures that describe something in an easier way then writing it out
- Soldiers used wooden weapons (bows&arrows, spears) with bronze tips and might ride chariots
- Upper class, known as the "white kilt class" were priests, physicians, and engineers
- Religious and political leaders were the only class higher than the white kilt class
- Pharaohs were the political and religious leaders of Egypt
- Otherwise known as "Lord of the two lands" because of his rule of all the land
- He protected Egypt against foreign invasion
- Hatshepsut was a woman who served as pharaoh
- Cleopatara VII also served as pharaoh
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