1. The Land of the Pharaohs
Ancient Egypt
The Land of the Pharaohs
By: Miss McCasland

2. Union of Two Crowns Egypt’s Villages are thriving! * Surplus of Crops
* New Technology
* Tools, pottery, jewelry
There was also TERROR AND FEAR!!
Wars were waging between villages. How do we know this?
Evidence of ruins of walls
and paintings of bloody
battle scenes!

3. Banding Together
The people of Egypt joined together into two separate kingdoms: Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt.
Upper Egypt King wore a white crown.
Lower Egypt King wore a red crown.

4. Pharaoh Menes KING OF UPPER EGYPT
LED HIS FORCES INTO LOWER EGYPT AND OVERTHREW THE KING
BECAME THE FIRST PHARAOH (THE NAME GIVEN TO ALL RULERS IN EGYPT)
DOUBLE CROWN-
SHOWED VICTORY
SYMBOLIZED UNIFICATION-JOINING OF SEPARATE PARTS INTO ONE

5. THE OLD KINGDOM

6. Government Under the Pharaohs
Most powerful leaders were assigned as local governors.
Collected taxes, local judges, made sure floodwaters were shared evenly
Reported to Egypt’s headquarters in Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt

7. Religion in Ancient Egypt
Pharaoh- great political and religious power
Egyptians believed the pharaoh was a child of Ra, the sun god and most important RA
Gave life to Earth
Pharaoh gave life to Egypt
Ra and pharaoh deserved to be worshipped

8. Other gods… Isis- protected people from sickness and harm
Osiris- represented the dead who awaited rebirth

9. Egypt’s Economy Pharaoh
crops
buildings
Services
everything
ALL THINGS IN EGYPT BELONGED TO THE PHARAOH, MAKING HIM THE CENTER OF THE ECONOMY!

10. ECONOMY
Way people manage money and resources for the production of goods and services
Egypt’s economy was based on agriculture

11. Division of Surplus Food Collected For Taxes

12. Taxes, Taxes, Taxes Pharaoh taxed everything, even people’s TIME!!
For example, during flood season, Egyptians from priests to potters to farmers were called upon to build canals or buildings for the government.
Craftworkers and artists kept temples supplied in exchange for clothes and food.

13. A SYSTEM OF WRITING

14. HIEROGLYPHICS Made up of about 800 picture signs
Individual picture-signs or symbols were called hieroglyphs
Could stand for objects or sounds
The reason we know so much about Ancient Egyptians
Rosetta Stone

15. Rosetta Stone The Key to A Lost Language
400 A.D. Hieroglyphics fell out of use and the meaning was lost
1799 French soldier found the Rosetta Stone
Large, black stone with writing on it
Contained a passage written 3 times (hieroglyphics, Greek, demotic)
Champollion compared the 3 languages and solved the mystery of hieroglyphics