Ancient Egypt
Published on Nov 21, 2015
A deck about the Ancient Egyptians and their ways of life.
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
TOPIC A: Keygroups within the society
Question 1: How did commoners become slaves?
and how were they treated?
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Most Egyptians became slaves by being sold in dept or escaping poverty. Some slaves were prisoners of war, captured in battle, they were often put to work in the mines, quarries, digging canals and on building the monuments. These sort of slaves did not appear in any numbers until the new kingdom from about 1500BCE, life for these slaves was extremely hard.
SLAVE: "A person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/slave?s=t
Question 2: How were women treated in comparison to men?
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Ancient Egyptians treated women better than any of the other major civilizations of the ancient world. The Egyptians believed that joy and happiness were genuine goals of life and regarded home and family as the major source of delight.
Egyptian women were fortunate in two important ways:
While women could become Pharaoh only in very special circumstances, they were otherwise regarded as totally equal to men as far as the law was concerned. They could own property, borrow money, sign contracts, initiate divorce, appear in court as a witness, etc. Of course, they were also equally subject to whatever responsibilities normally accompanied those rights.
Love and emotional support were considered to be important parts of marriage. Egyptians loved children as people and not just as potential workers and care-takers.
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TOPIC B: Architecture
Question 3: Why did the Egyptians build the ancient pyramids
Question 4: When did they build these pyamids?
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The ancient Egyptian pyramids were built in order to send the Pharaoh off in peace, they were buried with all their belongings and with lots of treasure. This was supposed to make their journey to the afterlife peaceful and undisturbed. These pyramids were built using slaves over long years of hard labour. The Pyramids of Giza were built in a span of 85 years between 2589 and 2504 BC.
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TOPIC C: Key Person
Question 5: Who was Cleopatra VII?
Question 6: How did she come to an end?
Cleopatra was the last active pharaoh of Egypt, she was born in October 69 BC, Alexandria, Egypt, and died on 10th August, 30, BC, Alexandria, Egypt.
She married Marcus Antonius, a Roman politician and general who played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic from an oligarchy into the autocratic Roman Empire, otherwise known as Mark Anthony. Cleopatra, along with her two most trusted servants, committed suicide in hope that her brother and/or husband would do the same, after sending him a letter bidding him to, and he did, they did this following the defeat of her forces against Octavian, the future first emperor of Rome.
Cleopatra married a total of four husbands
LIST OF CLEOPATRA'S HUSBANDS:
1.Ptolemy XIII - he drowned in 47 BC
2.Ptolemy XIV - he was allegedly poisoned in c. 44 BC
3.Julius Caesar - he was assassinated in Rome in 44 BC
4.Mark Antony - he committed a suicide following a crucial defeat from Octavian in 31 BC
Cleopatra VII was not an Egyptian. Cleopatra was actually part of a long line of Greek Macedonians originally descended from Ptolemy I, one of Alexander the Great’s most trusted lieutenants, she was 18 years old when she took the throne, after her father's death.
TOPIC D: Geography
Question 7: When was the river Nile formed?
Question 8: How big is the Nile river?
The river Nile is believed to have been formed sometime in the Tertiary period (66 million-2.58 million years ago).
The river Nile is 6,853km long. The Nile is an international river as it's water resources are shared by eleven countries, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan and Egypt.
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TOPIC E: Beliefs, values and purposes
Question 9: Why did the Ancient Egyptians apply eye makeup, female or not?
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The Egyptians used make up in order to make themselves look more beautiful and to treat and cure diseases. Oils and unguents (an ointment or salve that worked as sunscreen does) were rubbed into the skin to protect it from the hot air. Most frequently used were white make-up, black make-up made with carbon, lead sulphide (galena) or manganese oxide (pyrolusite, pahy-ruh-loo-sahyt) and green make-up from malachite (mal-uh-kahyt) and other copper based minerals. Red ochre was ground and mixed with water, and applied to the lips and cheeks, painted on with a brush. Henna was used to dye the fingernails yellow and orange.
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Question 10: Who were Ancient Egypts Gods and why were they important?
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Some of the gods and goddesses that the ancient Egyptians worshipped were; Amun, Anubis, Aten, Atum, Bastet, Bes, Geb, Hapy, Hathor, Horus, Isis, Khepri, Khnum, Ma’at, Nephthys, Nun, Nut, Osiris, Ptah, Ra, Ra-Horakhty, Sekhmet, Seshat, Seth, Shu, Sobek, Tawaret, Tefnut, Thoth. The ancient Egyptians worshipped many more Gods and Goddesses.
The ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses were important to Egypt because they had different gods to handle different problems and some gods had more than one responsibility. People prayed to them if something bad had occurred and offered a sacrifice hoping that their prayers would be answered and wellbeing be brought upon them. They also prayed to the gods if they needed something. People had always relied or looked up to these gods as they still do today.
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TOPIC F: Conflicts
Question 11: Who was one of Egypt's enemy?
Question 12: Why were they enemies?
One of Egypt's enemies were the Hyksos, they benefited Egypt by introducing horses and chariot-warfare which the New Kingdom Pharaohs used to build an empire. Historians believe that the Hyksos attacked Egypt with little resistance, they burnt their cities, destroyed temples, and led women and children into slavery.They were the rulers of Egypt's fifteenth dynasty, but the native Egyptians ruled the sixteenth and seventeenth dynasty. Most archaeologists describe the Hyksos as a mixture of Asiatic people. Other enemies were the Nubians, the Libyans, Mitanni, Hitties, Assyria, The Sea People and Persia.
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