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| grew on nile valley and egyptians wrote on it |
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| who were written in cartouches |
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| translated by frenchman champillion found in city of Rosetta. Rosetta city discovered in 1799 |
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| those that could write and read |
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| used as tombs, the largest ones were found in Giza,built during the flood season, |
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| flood, the plant, the harvest |
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| took 100,000 thousand men twenty years to build |
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| what word means great house? |
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| the pharoahs were believed to be... |
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| first pharoah of egypt. united upper and lower egypt |
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| famous warrior king, erected many statues and monuments to honor himself |
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| boy king that ruled from age 10 to 18 |
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| was discovered in 1922 by archaeologist howard carter with financial support from lord carnarvan/ tomb was undisturbed |
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| ruler of the dead, god of the afterlife |
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| sun god and ruler of the gods |
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| falcon headed god of the pharoahs |
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| jackal headed god of anubus |
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| how many gods did ancient egyptians believe in |
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| how did egyptians spend most of their life |
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| preparin for death and beyond |
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| what did egyptians believe happened when a person died |
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| believe he/she would rise again (like the sun) were buried on west side of nile because thats where the sun setted |
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| process of perserving bodies for the afterlife |
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| first step of mummification |
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| lungs river stomach and intestines were removed and placed in secial containers called canopic jars |
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| second step of mummification |
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| the brain was removed and thrown away |
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| third step of mummification |
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| the heart remained in the body because ir would be needed in the next life when the deceased persons heart was weighed with a feather |
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| fourth step of mumification |
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| the body would be dried using a substane called natron |
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| the body would be preserved than wrapped in linens |
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| how loeng did the best mummifications take to complet |
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| buried in the sand with a few possessions |
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| tose who couldnt afford proper mummification process were.... |
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| a book that contained information on useful info about death and beyond but it too was very expensive |
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| where were the world's first civilizations |
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| (in the middle east) ancient china indus valley mesopotamia and ancient egypt. |
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what did the first civilations have in common as far as their location
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| all near bodies of water, in NOrth- East hemisphere, on coasts of rivers and water mainly |
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| characteristics of a civilization... |
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| specialized workers, farmers, herdsman, fisherman, temples palaces and monuments, system of writing, states separated with border lines, mathematics and science, trade routes, religions, tools and weapons, bookeeping and record keeping, system of education, organized governemts, roads and harbors, |
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| good fertile land that is a rich-food growing area shaped like a crescent moon |
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| what does mesopotamia mean? |
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| it means between the two rivers |
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| where is mesopotamia located? |
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| large temples that were at the center of every mesopotomian city |
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| famous king of babylon that united mesopotamia and invited a code of laws |
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| a couple of famous city-states |
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| wheel (energy source) plow, |
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| some inventions of the mesopotamians |
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| the southern part of mesopotamia |
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| what was the writing called in mesopotamia |
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| what was the mesopotamias source for writing |
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| the two rivers mespotamia is located inbetween |
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| the fertile area of land where the nile emptied into the mediterranean |
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| what was the rosetta stone |
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| the rosetta stone was a stone that had three passages writiin in three different languages that explained the laws of ancient egypt and was significant because we were able to translate it and connect to the ancient egyptian world |
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| who discovered the rosetta stone? |
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| troops in napolean's army in 1799 |
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| who translated the stone? |
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| CHampollion (frenchman) Jean CHampollion |
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| they wrote on papyrus (where we get the word paper) |
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| the name that a pharoahs name was written in |
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| the largest pyramids were built here |
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| pyramids served as a tomb for the pharoahs |
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| name a few gods and what they were the god(s) of |
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| Re was the sun god and the god of the gods. Horus was the falcon headed god of the pharoahs. Anumbis was the god of embalbing and had a jackal head. OSirus was the ruler of the dead and the od of the afterlife. |
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| why did egyptians mummify their dead? |
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| to preserve their bodies for the afterlife |
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| what organ remained in the body when it was mummified? |
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| liver, stomach, lungs, and intestines |
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| what organs were placed in canopic jars |
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| what were the jars called that the organs were placed in |
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| what substance did the egyptians use to dry out the body? |
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