ANCIENT EGYPT

NILE RIVER

NILE RIVER FACTS

• The black land meant life the red land meant danger.
• People settled near the Nile river so they could grow crops.
• There were three seasons akhet, peret, and shemu they all meant so etching different.
• During akhet people stopped farming and began to do work for the government.
• There is a lot of fertile Nile valley land for people to live on for farming.

SOCIETY

SOCIETY FACTS

• There are five different classes that they put people in.
• The highest class is the king he rules over all the other classes below him.
• Enslaved people are at the bottom of the chain they work for all classes above them.
• Nobles and priests helped the king and did what they told him.
• Farmers and unkilled workers did the farming and harvesting.

PYRAMIDS

PYRAMIDS

• Pyramids were built by the Egyptians for the kings.
• They had to know mathematics, geometry, engineering, and architecture to build the pyramids.
• The kings chamber could be found in the middle of the pyramid.
• They buried the pharaohs with their belongings for there after life.
• They had air shafts inside the pyramids for the king.

HIEROGLYOHICS

HIEROGLYPHICS FACTS

• Hieroglyphics was a picture instead of letters.
• Papyrus was paper making it easier to write in hieroglyphics .
• Every letter had its own picture.
• Hieroglyphics were ideas or object but could be sounds.
• They kept records in hieroglyphics.

PHAROAHS

PHARAOH FACTS

• The pharaoh had no equal.
• They believed the king had many powers being a god and a mother and a father.
• Hatshepsut was a woman but acted like a king.
• She said she was sun god ra's daughter.
• She took control when her husband died.