Bell-ringer – Draw a map. The source of the Nile is Lake Victoria in the south. The river runs northward and at its mouth in branches out like an open flower. This area is called the delta and is known as lower Egypt. The land closer to the source is called upper Egypt.

Bell-Ringer 12/11 Why do people take time to bury the dead in cultures all over the world?

Bell-ringer - Thursday For the life-giving rays of the sun that caused the crop to grow could also cause it to shrivel and die. And the river that invigorated the soil with its life-giving silt could destroy whatever lay in its path or, if it failed to rise sufficiently, bring famine. The sun and the river, moreover, shared in the pattern of death and rebirth: the sun ‘died’ when it sank on the western horizon only to be ‘reborn’ in the eastern sky the following morning. And the ‘death’ of the land followed by the germination or ‘rebirth’ of the crops each year were directly connected with the river’s annual flood.

Medicine - Bellringer The prescription for a healthy life, (which was almost always given by a member of the priestly class) meant that an individual undertook the stringent and regular purification rituals (which included much bathing, and often times shaving one's head and body hair), and maintained their dietary restrictions against raw fish and other animals considered unclean to eat.priestly c

Ancient Egypt #2 World Studies

Bell-Ringer Tell me three things you know about ancient Egypt.

Bell-Ringer 12/8 Q2-Week5 A pharoah was the….

Honors: Reading Assignment Chapter 3 – Indus River Valley Read Pages Answer questions 1-9 in Cornell Notes Format –Vocabulary and questions on left. –Answers, etc. on right. Summary of Chapter

Geography Relative Location Northeast Africa Along the Nile River South of the Mediterranean Sea and east of the Red Sea

Geography Movement The Nile flows north from its source in Lake Victoria to its mouth in the Mediterranean Sea which forms a delta. Upper and Lower Egypt –(This is tricky!) River flow

Specialized Workers Slaves Masons

Advanced Cities Thebes – center of artifacts –Temple of Luxor –Valley of Kings –Valley of Queens –Necropolis Giza – Sphinx & Great Pyraminds

Temple of Hatshepsut Queen of Egypt Temple, Museum, &Tomb Daughter of Amon-Ra

My Dad Mason –A stone worker –Hammered wedges –Water expands wedges –Blocks moved on ramps –Mud and water to slide

Medicine -Doctors Illness caused by evil spirits Cleansing needed Prayers & Incantations Amulets Injections & ingested medicines Salves & Balms Herbs for pain & magic for cure

Cure for Indigestion: Crush a hog's tooth and put it inside of four sugar cakes. Eat for four days.

Cure for Burns: Create a mixture of milk of a woman who has borne a male child, gum, and, ram's hair. While administering this mixture say: Thy son Horus is burnt in the desert. Is there any water there? There is no water. I have water in my mouth and a Nile between my thighs. I have come to extinguish the fire.

Cure for Lesions of the Skin: After the scab has fallen off put on it: Scribe's excrement. Mix in fresh milk and apply.

Cure for Cataracts: Mix brain-of-tortoise with honey. Place on the eye and say: There is a shouting in the southern sky in darkness, There is an uproar in the northern sky, The Hall of Pillars falls into the waters. The crew of the sun god bent their oars so that the heads at his side fall into the water, Who leads hither what he finds? I lead forth what I find. I lead forth your heads. I lift up your necks. I fasten what has been cut from you in its place. I lead you forth to drive away the god of Fevers and all possible deadly arts.

The Soul – 3 in one Ba – earthly personality, soul inside the tomb,but could leave to visit world Ka – a copy of you kept in your heart stay their until death; must stay in tomb Akh- immortal spirit that travels to afterlife; eternal spirit Keep them all alive!!!  Mummification

Anubis

My Mummy

Complex Institutions Pharaoh Dynasty Theocracy polytheism Egyptian gods –Amun-Ra –Osiris pyramids mummification

Record Keeping & Writing Pictograms Hieroglyphics Papyrus Rosetta Stone

Advanced Technology Pyramid Calendar Forensics Water clock Sun dial Bronze work medicine

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