Pharaoh:
- he was all powerful
- worshipped as a god
- he had multiple wives
- if things weren't going well in Egyptian life the Pharaoh could be fired
- Egyptians relied on a harmony of the balance of the universe.
- Called Maat
gods, humans, everlasting life
- the Egyptian people believed in the afterlife
- gods were often portrayed with animal heads or bodies
- the people mummified dead bodies to preserve them for the post-death journey
- Egyptian people believe that when you reach the afterlife the dead souls would be justified at the point of death and be either sent to an after-world paradise, or the jaws of a monster
Writing of the words of God
- earliest Egyptian writing people found is around 3100 B.C. and were small pictures known as hieroglyphics
- hieroglyphics is where they drew pictures to describe what they were saying
- hieratic was when they started to use letters to write words out
- Papyrus was what they called paper
Calendar and Sailboat
- Egyptians created a calendar with 12 months, 365 days long, to make sense of the seasonal cycles
- they had a calendar for all types of seasons
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