Egypt notes

Ancient Egypt:

-Upper Egypt was 500 mile long strip of fertile along the Nile
-Lower Egypt was the wide land of the Nile delta, emptying into the Meditteranean Sea
-around 3100 B.C. the two lands were united under a single king or "pharaoh"
-Pharaoh was all powerful, worshipped 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"
-Pharaoh's had multiple wives, and all routes to financial and social success through the palace
-Women could inherit money and land and divorce their husbands, though only a tiny few weilded real political power
-Earliest Egyptian writing formed c. B.C. and were small pictures known as hieroglyphs
-Hieroglyphs represented religious words or parts of words, and most commonly adorned temples
-Hieratic script was a short hand developed by scribes and priests
-Hieratic - sounds
-papyrus - mashed Nike reeds
-Hieroglyphs - pictures
-Egyptian astronomers - calender with 12 months and 365 days
-Egyptian doctors - created cures for common ailmebts
-Egyptian doctors - excellent knowledge of human anatomy
-Wooden sail boats were constructed to increase transport ability on the Nile
-Pyramid - massive tombs
-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