Monday Class Work

John Greene:

Egypt:
-one of the oldest civilizations
-lasted from 3000B.C.E. to 302 B.C.E.
-The Nile River shaped the life of the ancient Egyptians
-Nile - one of the safest agricultural areas
-Each summer - Nile flooded filds
-Flood left behind rich soil
-Egyptians tossed seed onto the ground and let cows walk on it to stomp the seed into the groud
-Egyptian communities existed only along the Nile River
-Used Basin Irrigation on the Nile River
-Egyptians were buried with things that were useful and pleasurable in their life
-Old Kingdom - 2649 - 2152
-Middle Kingdom - 2040 - 1640
-New Kingdom - 1550 - 1070
Old kingdom: 
-Pharaoh was supposed to act like a God
-Most famous pyramids were built between 2575 - 2465
-Largest pyramid was built for the Pharaoh Khufu
-Because pharaoh became "gods" at their death, it made sense to build a ptramid for them
-two forms of writing: hieroglyphics - for scared writing, demotic script - for recording contracts and agreements
-Old Kingdom was a very rich time period
Middle Kingdom:
-New leaders were from outdide Egypt in Nubia
-Ahmenrah - greatest god ever
-Hixons were able to conquer all of Egypt
-Egyptians waited till the Hixons were most vulnerable and then destroyed them
New Kingdom:
-looked more like an empire
-traveled south and took over land
-Akhanatun - tried to invent new god
-Akhanatun - Kim Jong un of ancient Egypt
-Tutankhamuen - turned back on weird god
-King Tut married sister
-King Tut - most famous ancient person
-King Tut - died in 1332 B.C.E.

Pyramid Quest:

-1802 A.D. - youngest son of harun ir Rashiid set base camp at pyramid
-set out to find the treasure of the yramid
-Pyramid was guarded by Sphinx
-on the pyramid - a stone could be moved
-stone would lead to winding paths into the ptramid
-he decided to make his own path into the pyramid

Mummification:

-Heraclytes - died in egypt in the first cetury A.D.
-Mummification - developed by ancient Egyptians to preserve body for after life
-all internal organs were removed before mummification - except for the heart
-Heraclytes - heart was removed - lungs were not
-Body was covered in salt and left for forty days until all moisture was eliminated
-perfume oils and plant resins were rubbed on the body
-alot of resin was applied to glue the strips of linen that were qrappedd around the body
-mummy was placed on wooden board
-more linen was applied to wrap them together
-pouch placed on chest - contained religious items
-mummified itus - bird - placed on addomin
-portrait of mummy was placed on faced
-it was then covered with a linen cloth
-shroud was painted red
-egyptian symbols were painted on outer cloth
-name was written at the feet

I thought the videos were very interesting.  The second video - Pyramid Quest - was not very interesting to me, I did not think it gave important information.  John Greene's video was interesting but hard to take notes on.  Sometimes I could not understand was he was saying and I found that I was pausing the video very frequently.  The third video was my favorite.  I learned a lot about the process of mummification that I did not know.  I thought a person was just wrapped in cloth and out in a tomb.  I now know that there is a lot more to the process then just that.