NILE RIVER

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• Sand got in food Egyptians made so dental disease was common
• Egypt could've gotten attacked by foreign countries
• For Black Land meant life, but the Red Life represented danger
• The Nile Delta receives about four inches per year
• The Nile Valley of Cairo receives less than one inch

SOCIETY

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• The King or Pharaoh is on top of the pyramid
• If you worked hard, you'd be able to move up on the pyramid
• Enslaved people were on the bottom of the pyramid
• Farmers & enslaved people harvested papyrus
• People got born into social classes that determined their status and job

PYRAMIDS

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• The pyramids were used for tombs for dead kings
• Egyptian kings are best known for the pyramids
• The pyramids had a temple so they could make offerings
• Pharaoh shad workers make huge pyramids to serve as tombs
• Pharaoh so got buried with their belongings because they thought after he died he'd take them in the underworld

HIEROGLYPHICS

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• Hieroglyphics represented ideas or objects
• We know about Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt because of the written records
• The first paper made it easier to keep the records
• The documents were in hieroglyphics

PHARAOHS

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• Ancient Egyptians referred to their kings as Pharaohs
• When her husband died, Hatshepsut took control
• She took control by saying her father was the Sun god Ra
• Egyptians thought only men could be kings so Hatshepsut is portrayed as a male.
• Hatshepsut was a woman who took the role of a pharaoh