1. Chapter 2 Section 2 Egyptian Life And Culture

2. Architecture Pyramids: Great Pyramid at Giza –Tombs for pharaohs Engineers used: –Ramps –Levers –1000s of workers

4. Medicine Knowledge of Human Body. –Gained from preserving bodies after death. Treated illnesses with magic spells, herbs and medicines.

5. Religion Polytheistic: believed in many gods. Universal Gods included: Amon (Ra)- Creator (Sun) Osiris- Judged Dead (Nile )

6. Religion and Afterlife Believed in the Afterlife –Pharaohs vs. everyone –Sacred scale/ feather –Mummification: Preserve the body –Tools, weapons, food Use in the afterlife

7. Mummies!

8. Education Connected to Religion. Scribes and clerks: –read and write for government.

9. Society Social Classes: Rigid Women – Equality Equal in business affairs. Own property Leave property to daughters -Lower vs. Upper Class

10. Farming Estates – Peasants worked with hoes and plows Difficult Life Crops went to the Pharaoh for Rent and Taxes Grew Wheat, flax and cotton

11. Trade Controlled by government Sea trade: Mediterranean and Red Seas. Land trade: caravans to Asia and Africa. Food / Cloth surplus traded.