ANCIENT EGYPT

NILE RIVER

NILE RIVER FACTS

• Blue Nile and White Nile make the Nile River.
• People in Egypt have only three seasons.
• The Nile River is 4,160 miles long.
• Egypt's seasons are, Peret, Shemu, and Akhet.
• The Nile River helps farmers know when to plant crops.

SOCIETY

CLASS FACTS

• Kings are the highest class in Egypt.
• Enslaved people are the lowest class.
• The higher the class is on the pyramid, the more that class is respected.
• Merchants, craftsmen, and scribes, are in the middle.
• Farmers, and unskilled workers, are almost as low as slaves.

PYRAMIDS

PYRAMID FACTS

• Used as tombs for dead kings.
• To build a pyramid, they needed geometery, math, art, and engineering.
• Was used as a way to show respect to the dead kings.
• The kings chamber was located near the top.
• Egyptians thought dead kings could take buried belongings with them.

HIEROGLPHICS

HIEROGLYPHIC FACTS

• Hieroglyphics are like the Egyptian alphabet.
• They can even stand for noises.
• Egyptians created the first payper, called papyrus.

PHARAOHS

PHARAOH FACTS

• Pharaoh means god, protector.
• The pharaoh was the Egyptian king.
• Hatshepsut was a pharaoh's daughter.
• She thought she should be the next pharaoh.
• Egyptians believed that only men should be pharaohs.