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Chapter 2 Section 2

• Global History I
• Mr. Schoff

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OA

• In Chapter 2 Section 2, describe what The Great
  Sphinx is.
• Turn to page 30 and read about Egyptian tombs.

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I heard it helps to write it down

• Hieroglyphics picture writing used to keep
  track of important information
• Carved on stone, preserved for thousands of years
• Pictograms that depicted objects, carved onto
  monuments, temples
• Written language became more complex
• Ideograms pictures that symbolized an idea or
  action

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Hieroglyphs
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Keep writing

• Scribes developed demotic simpler form of
  writing
• Papyrus was used
• Paper not used until 100 AD in China
• Much easier to use than chiseling into stone
• Official histories still carved onto stone for
  preservation purposes

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Uhh, can you decipher that for me???

• New Kingdom went into decline, Egyptians forgot
  what hieroglyphs meant
• 1800s French scholar, Jean Champollion decoded
  the Rosetta Stone
• Flat, black stone has same message carved into 3
  different forms of script
• Hieroglyphics, demotic, Greek
• Now historians could read Egyptian history

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Advances

• Believed in many forms of magic
• Learned a great deal about the human body through
  mummifying
• Observed symptoms, diagnosed, found cures,
  performed surgeries
• Anise, castor beans, saffron (still used today)
• Calendar 12 months, 30 days, 5 days added on at
  end of each year
• Became basis for our calendar (with minor
  changes)
• Developed geometry for surveying land, calculate
  exact size and location of each block of stone to
  be placed in a pyramid or temple
• Many advances in statues, paintings, poems, and
  tales
• Drawings stiff, standard poses, heads/limbs in
  profile, eyes/shoulders facing viewer

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Whats wrong here

• The vizier, who was seen as a god as well as a
  king, was linked closely to the chief god Isis.
• Amon-Re!

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Whats wrong here

• Only the nobles believed in the afterlife.
• All Egyptians, from nobles to peasants, believed
  in the afterlife.

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Whats wrong here

• Egyptian civilization was basically a classless
  society.
• Like other early civilizations, Egypt had a
  fairly rigid class system.

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Whats wrong here

• Like women in most of the ancient world, Egyptian
  women were held in low status and had very little
  independence.
• Egyptian women generally enjoyed a higher status
  and greater independence than women in the rest
  of the ancient world.

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Whats wrong here

• Priests and scribes used a form of picture
  writing called papyrus to keep track of
  unimportant information.
• Hieroglyphics, important writing!

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Whats wrong here

• Egyptians made very few advances in learning and
  the arts.
• Great advances in medicine, astronomy, math,
  painting, and sculpture!

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Secrets of the Pyramids

• Secret Of The Pyramids