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Ancient Egypt. By: Brienna & Emily. Basic Needs. Family Leisure Time Or Recreation Food And Shelter History (Nile). Family. The simple basic needs of a family would be water, food, shelter. Most Egyptians were farmers, and tied to the land A family provided food and shelter.
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Ancient Egypt By: Brienna & Emily
Basic Needs • Family • Leisure Time Or Recreation • Food And Shelter • History (Nile)
Family • The simple basic needs of a family would be water, food, shelter. • Most Egyptians were farmers, and tied to the land • A family provided food and shelter. • Children learned the rules of society and beliefs through there parents.
Leisure Time And Recreation • Leisure time: • Children played with wooden balls, tops as well as dolls and craved wooden animals. • Board games were popular, Senet was a favourite.
Food • Food: they ate wheat and barley for bread and beer leaks, lettuce, onions, and all kinds of beans. They were often served with a oil and viniger dressing .There was not much fruit because it was to hard to grow. They did not eat very much meat they would much rather there animals were kept milk. The rich people ate large variaties of meats like hyena and antelope fish was eaten by the poor.
Shelter • There are no forests in Egypt so what is scarce • The build houses with dried bricks and the dried bricks were made of mud and straw • The houses have family rooms, guest rooms ,storage rooms, kids rooms • They have a back door and a front door • (And these were the nobles homes) • Each peasant family has a home • Some peasant homes had 2 stories or 3 and more • They used ramps to move from floor to floor • Nobody cared how big your house was just as long as you built it yourself
Cultural Expressions • Fashion • Religon • Gods • Mummication • Embalming
Fashion • Clothing: the cloths worn by most egyptians was made of linen. • Flax which linen was made from grew well in Egypt tempature. • The fabric was cool and comfortable . • Only rich egyptians could afford brightly colored linen. • Men wore linen wore linen around their waste like a kilt.
Gods • Important gods: • Ra the sun god • Amun the god of air and thebes • Osiris god of the dead • Isis the godess and protector of women • Ptah the god of • Shu the god of a personification of air • Geb is the god of earth • Set the god of the desert • Horus is the oldest most significant god • Ma’at the god of concept , truth, balance, order , law, morality, and justice
mummification • The entire process of mummification took 70 days • Several people worked on the task at hand • The chief wore a mas to represent anubis • All organs except the heart was removed the heart was left because egyptins it was the organ that contained all inteligance and emotions • The removed organs were put in a jar that were placed in the tomb at the time burial • the brain was useless took it out through the nose with a wire
The After Life • Egyptians believed in after life. • Egyptians spent there hole life getting ready for the after life. • To get into the after life egytians belived that the dead person would be judged by Osiris. (Was the god of the dead) • Osiris judged them with a ritual called “Weighing Of The Heart” • After the ritual he decided if they had lead a worthy life. • To remane in
Embalming • The purpose of embalming is to disinfect, temporarily preserve and restore a person's body to a natural appearance to allow for the viewing of the body.
Cultural Structures • Pharaohs
Pharaohs • Was the absolute ruler. • Whatever a pharaoh said was law • To say justice was what the pharaoh loves • And to say what was wrong was what the pharaoh hates • A pharaoh would marry his own sister so his children would have the blood of the gods • The pharaohs cheif adviser was the second most powerful man in the land • The pharaoh had very little time to himself • In the 3000 years when egypt was powerful there were over 300 pharaohs
Egyptian Legacies • Writing • Pyramids and architecture • Systems of record keeping • Great works
Writing • Used picture letters called Hieroglyphs. • There was over 700 of these little pictures. • The word signs were simple, and easy to read.( For them) Ex. A series of wavy lines were water. • They wrote on paper called papyurs. ( made from red stems witch had been dried fattened and stuck together to make pages.) • A piece of sharp ( dipped in ink) reed was used to write with.
Pyramids • The tombs of the pharaohs were huge and took years and years to build. • The riches in-side led to tomb robbing. Because of his tombs were starting to be underground. ( still most these got robbed. • The top of the pyramids were the Pharaohs then another level down was Nobles and Military Leaders, next down was Priests and Scribes, then Crafts People and Merchants, then Peasant Farmers, and finally the Slaves.
Key Terms • Silt-fertile soil • Delta- triangle shaped marshey area • Papyrus- paper for writing • Shemu- harvest time • akhet- flood time • Peret- sowing time • Hieroglyphs- little pictures • Adobe- sun dried mud • Kohl-a black powder mixed with water • Ochre- red clay
Key Terms • Henna- plant dye • Amulets- good luck charms • Shift- loose fitting dress • Loin cloths- wrap around skirts • Pharaohs- egyptian kings • Embalming- to keep the corpses from decaying • Mummification- preserving kings corpses • sarcophagus- stone coffin • Nomarchs- tax collectors
Questions. • Q: Why were Egyptians excited about the Nile flooding it’s banks? How did this eventually help with the settlement along the Nile? A: • How did writing help Egyptians with there life? A: • What were some of there legacies left behind from Egypt? A:
More Questions • In Egypt, the pharaoh made laws to control people. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of having laws the control all aspects of a person’s life. A:
