The Ancient Egyptian Culture

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The Ancient Egyptian Culture

• Period 3 Ms. Cunningham
• Irisdalis Dionicio
• Yaneth Flores
• Jennifer Rodriguez
• Rohan Cleary

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Ancient facts

• Ancient Egyptians believed that gods and
  goddesses took part in creation. They believed
  that some gods and goddesses brought the flood
  every year, some offered protection, and some
  took care of people after they died. Others were
  either local gods who represented towns, or minor
  gods who represented plants or animals.

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More Facts

• The ancient Egyptians thought of Egypt as being
  divided into two types of land, the black land
  and the red land. black land was the fertile
  land on the banks of the Nile and The red land
  was the barren desert that protected Egypt on two
  sides.

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The Egyptian Life

• There where two types of families in the
  Egyptian way of life. The Noblemans family and
  the Farmers family.
• One family is rich and lives a good life with
  servants and the other family is poor and has to
  do everything themselves.
• The Farmers family didnt live very well and
  they were poor. They had meals of bread , meat ,
  fruit and beer on Reed mats.
• The Noblemans family lived well and they were
  rich. They had meals of Bread ,meat, beer, figs,
  cakes, wines and dates.

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Mummification

• Ancient Egyptians buried dead bodies in open pits
  and leaves them to dehydrate in these pits and
  this creates natural mummies.
• Later on they discovered a new method of burring
  there bodies. The ancient Egyptians would bury
  them in coffins but they decay to quickly so they
  began to embalming and wrapping these dead bodies
  , this method became known as mummification.

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Pharaohs

• The pharaoh was the most POWERFUL person on the
  land. He/She was the political and religious
  leader.
• Lord of the Two Lands the pharaoh was the ruler
  of both upper and lower Egypt. He/she owned all
  of the land. He/she made laws, collected taxes
  rituals and built temples to honor the gods, and
  defended Egypt against foreigners.
• The pharaoh or High Priest of Every Temple,
  represented the gods on Earth. He/ she performed.

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Pyramids

• The ancient egyptians built pyramids to bury
  there deceased Pharaohs and Queens.
• They were buried in pyramids of different shapes
  and sizes
• They where built from before the begging of the
  old kingdom and the end of the middle kingdom

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Temples

• The ancient Egyptians believed that the Gods and
  Goddesses lived there.
• They dedicated a temple to each God or Goddess
  and there they were worshipped by temple priest
  and Pharaohs.
• The walls were made of stone to last forever.

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Time

• The ancient egyptian civilization lasted over
  Three Thousand years
• During this time there where many changes to the
  way the lived but in many aspects of their way
  of life remained the same.
• For example Their basic culture ,
  religion and artistic style.