Thursday's class 02/19/15

On that day we continued talked about "Egypt", here's the notes that I took;

• Wrote in hieroglyphs and in hieratic

• Soldiers used wooden weapons (bow&arrows, spears) w/ bronze tips and might ride chariots

• Upper Class, known as the "white kilt class" - priests, physicians, engineers

• Religious and Political leader

• Pharaohs - The political and religious leader of the Egyptian people, holding the titles: 'Lord of the Two Lands' and 'High Priest of Every Temple 

• He owned all land, made laws, collected taxes, and defended Egypt against foreigners

• Hatshepsut was a women who served as pharaoh

• Cleopatra VII also served  as pharaoh but much later (51 - 30 BC) more on her when we study Greece