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Title: Egyptian%20Culture


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Egyptian Culture
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Gods and Goddesses
  • Osiris God of Nile / Underworld
  • Isis Love story / Creation with Isis
  • Amon-Re Chief God
  • The Sun God
  • Pharaoh linked to Amon-Re

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Mummification Process
  • Preserved the ba (spirit) and ka (body)
  • Skilled workers labored for 70 days
  • Removed vital body organs stored in canopic
    jars (heart remains)
  • Body then embalmed and wrapped
  • Pharaohs / officials buried in tombs
  • People buried in the sand

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Mummification
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Canopic Jars
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Egyptian Writing Hieroglyphics
  • Form of picture writing
  • Initially carved in stone or clay
  • Rosetta Stone flat black stone with message in
    Hieroglyphics, Demotic, Greek

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Demotic and Papyrus
  • Simpler form of writing 2500 BCE
  • Everyday use in Egypt
  • Use of writing in Egypt
  • Papyrus
  • Plant found along Nile River banks
  • Wrote on this paper material

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Papyrus
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Social Structure
  • Pharaoh Human God
  • Royal Family Queen Mother in charge / includes
    wives and children
  • Officials upper class lifestyle
  • Title Office Holders court life
  • Middle Classes landowners, artisans, scribes
  • Peasants small pay and long work days
  • Slaves few in Egypt / from military victories

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Society
  • Clothing, jewelry, and perfumes popular with men
    and women
  • Wives Equal Status to Husbands
  • Divorce Legal and Women get 1/3
  • Encouraged close kin marriages
  • (especially upper class)
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