Ancient+Egypt

3000 B.C.- 34 B.C.  By:Nathan Kapaun Austen Tyryfter

__Overview:__
The Nile River played a huge part in ancient egypt. It is egypts only water source today and most of the cities are located either on or near the river. They used the Nile as irrigation to raise crops. Without the Nile Egypt would be mostly desert and people wouldnt want to live there. The pharoahs are one part of ancient egypt that we hear about alot, probably the most often too. The pharoahs were the leaders or rulers of egypt. Their was some great ones and some so so ones but the egyptians thought that the pharoahs were decendents from the gods. Pharoahs were a big part in Ancient Egypt. Once a pharoah died they always needed a place to put the dead body. So the egyptians built big Pyramids to hold their body and prepare it for the after life. The pyramids would be stalked with everything the body would need for the after life. Even though the Pyramids are still a mystery today the Great Pyramids at Giza are one of the 7 wonders of the world.



**__Important people in Ancient Egypt__**

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 * 1) Thutmose III: He conqured Syria and Persia. He was known as the "Napoleon of Egypt" He could be the best general of the Ancient Egypt civilization.
 * 2) Amenhotep IV: He changed the polythestic religion that Egypt had before to monotheism. It was later changed back once he died, his wife changed it back.
 * 3) King Tut: He was the boy king, with out him we wouldn't think of treasure when people talked about egypt. Probably the most well known Pharoah.
 * 4) Menes: He was the first ever pharoah of Egypt. Without him maybe we wouldnt even be talkin about pharoahs, again one of those what if situations.
 * 5) Cleopatra: The first woman ruler of the world. She ruled about the same time of the Roman Empire. Killed herself by letting snakes bit her.

**5000 BC-** First evidence of people settling along the Nile. __**Historical Quote**__ "Live and follow rules don't be like my father Akhenaton" //King Tut//
 * 3110 BC-** Menes Joined Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the Capitol at Memphis.
 * 2700 BC-** The first ever stone pyramid was built
 * 2600 BC-** The pyramids of Giza were built.
 * 2055 BC-** Mentuhotep II gained control of the entire country.
 * 1400 BC-**Akhenaten changed Egyptian religion, then after he died it was reversed.
 * 1279 BC-** Ramses II begins building his mortuary temple “The Ramesseum”
 * 1100 BC-** Upper and Lower Egypt are split.
 * 196 BC-** The Rosetta Stone is carved.
 * 1822 AD-** Some of Jean Francois Chompollion’s men find the Rosetta stone.

__ **Terms** __


 * Re: One of the sun gods forms, head of a falcon body of a human. The Most well known god of the many that the Egyptians had.
 * Hieroglyphics: "Priest-Carvings" or "Sacred Writings", a complex system of writing that used both pictures and more abstract forms; used by the ancient Egyptians and Mayans.
 * Mummification: A process of slowly drying a dead body to prevent it from decaying. It is why the mummies today look like they do, they are well preserved.
 * Pharaoh: The most common of the various titles for ancient Egyptian Monarchs; the term originally meant "Great house". It is what we think about if we hear the word Egypt.
 * Ka: What the Egyptian's believed to be the spiritual body. That is why the mummified bodies so that the body would become a spiritual body.

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