Powerpoint and Review for Test

Today in class we reviewed for our test tomorrow by going over a power point. The first slide of the powerpoint was on the Land of the Pharaohs.  Upper Egypt was a 500 mile long strip of fertile land along the Nile. Lower Egypt was the wide land of the Nile delta, emptying into the Mediterranean sea.In 3100 BC the two lands were united under a single king or "pharaoh".The Nile was the major provider of life for the Egyptians. The next slide was on Government by a God-King. The pharaoh was all powerful, worshiped as a god and intimately connected to the other major Egyptian gods and goddesses. Egyptians relied on a harmony and balance of the universe which they called "maat".Pharaohs had multiple wives and all routes to financial and social success were through the palace.Woman could inherit money and land and divorce their husbands, through only a tiny few ever wielded real political power. Woman did pretty well under Egyptian rule. The next slide was Gods, Humans, and Everlasting life. Gods were often portrayed with animal heads or bodies. Egyptians believed in an afterlife and mummified bodies to preserve them for this post death journey. All souls would need to justify themselves at the point of death and can be either sent to an afterworld paradise or the jaws of a monster. The nest slide was called The writing of the words of God. Earliest Egyptian writing formed about 1300BC and were small pictures known as hieroglyphs. Papyrus, the precursor to paper, was stored in scrolls and these scrolls were the books of ancient Egypt. Hierolyphs represented religious words, or parts of words. The next slide was called Calenders and Sailboats. Egyptian astronomers created a calender with 365 days to make better sense of the seasonal cycles. Due to their excellent knowledge of human anatomy Egyptian doctors wrote extensively on health issues and created potions and cures to a number of common ailments. wooden sailboats were constructed to increase transport ability on the Nile. The last slide was called Pyramids and Temples. The pyramids were massive stone tombs, originally covered in marble but the marble was later stripped off during the Muslim conquest.The temple of Amon at Karnak is the largest religious building in the world, also made out of huge block of stone. Stone sculptures and interior painting depicted humans and gods in a series of regulated poses, often in profile and without perspective, but were highly effective. Then after the powerpoint we watched a video on mummification. The video talked about a man who was mummified around the 1st century AD. First all the internal organs are taken out. Then the body stays in salt for 40 days. Linen is wrapped around the body and then more wrapping are. Pictures are painted on the outer layer.