Geography
- Egyptian life is centered around the Nile River
- The Nile River start from south to North
- water for drinking, irrigation, bathing and transportation
- every July it floods
- every October it leaves behind rich soil
- the delta is a broad, marshy triangular area of fertile silt
- managing the river required technological breaking throughs in irrigation
- the Great sphinx of Giza
- built 1555 - 2532 B.C
- a recumbent lion with a human's head
- the oldest monumental statue in the world
- Pharaoh
- Government official Nobles Priests
- Soldiers
- Scribes
- Merchants - use money/barter system - merchants might accept bags of grain for payment - later coinage came about
- Artisans - would carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes in the afterlife
- Farmers - raised wheat, barley, lentils, onions - benitted from irrigation of the Nile
- Slaves and Servants - help the wealthy with household and ehildraisisg duties
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