Thursday, March 3, 2011

In Class 3-3-11

In class we went over the Prezi that the class started going over yesterday while I wasn't here. 


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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