1. You need your notebooks and something to write with 
FRIYAY!
You need your notebooks and something to write with 

3. After viewing the Egyptian Creation Myth:
Compare the Egyptian Creation Myth to the Sumerian Myth. How are they similar and different?
What can you infer about Egyptian Religion from the myth?

4. Divisions & Old Kingdom
Ancient Egypt Notes:
Divisions & Old Kingdom

5. Two Divisions of the Egyptian Kingdom
Upper Egypt
Southern Nile River
High white crown
Lower Egypt
Northern Nile near delta
Shallow Red crown

6. Menes from Upper Egypt married a princess from Lower Egypt and united the kingdom.
He wore a crown made from the combined crowns of the two previous kingdoms.
New capital at Memphis

8. Old Kingdom ( 2600 – 2100 B.C.E.)
Common Egyptians
Most Egyptians were farmers and took care of cattle
Lived in villages on large estates
Also built monuments, dug ditches, repaired roads

9. Pharaoh
Strength of ruler = strength of country
Center of life, owned all land, government and trade
Pyramids
Built on the west bank of the Nile
During summer months when Nile flooded crops

11. Religious Beliefs
Hapi (river god), Re (sun god) and Osiris (harvest & eternal life)
Mummification, Book of the dead
Medicine & Magic