2/4/2014: LO3

Land of the Pharaohs: Egypt

• The Nile and the "Two Lands"
• Upper Egypt 
• a narrow strip of fertile land
• five hundred miles in length and about twelve miles in width 
• located alongside the river as it flows across the North African desert
• Lower Egypt
• a delta 
• fan-shaped pattern of water ways
• formed by the Nile before it reached the sea
• pharaohs- the rulers of ancient Egypt 
• Government by a God-King
• "Hail to thee, O Nile, that issues from the earth and comes to keep Egypt alive! Hidden in his form of appearance, a darkness by day, to whom minstrels have sung. He that waters the meadows which Re created, in order to keep every kid alive. He that makes to drink the desert and the place distant from water: that is his dew coming down from heaven."
• Tending the "Cattle of God"
• Men and Women Under the Pharaohs
• Gods, Humans, and Everlasting Life 
• The Soul Declares Its Innocence
• The Writing of the Words of God
• hieroglyphs- the earliest Egyptian writing, in which pictures stood for whole words or seperate sounds of words.
• Calendars and Sailboats 
• Pyramids and Temples 
• pyramid- a massive structure with sloping slides that met at an apex, used as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt 
• The Rhythm of Egypt's History