Notes on Pages 20-29

- The Egyptian civilization was more table than Mesopotamia.
- Political and sectional conflict didn't brake countries unity.
- Cultural influences were either welcomed or kept at an arms length.
- The Egyptian civilization's traditions were so strong that they flourished even in the last thousand years.
- The country was constantly invaded.
- The Narmer Palette: the palette was used for the grinding makeup for divine images in an Upper Egyptian temple about 3100 b.c.
- The grinding areas are believe to symbolize the union of the two lands.
- Unification was soon a not peaceful process.
- The country is divided into two sections, Upper and Lower Egypt.
- Upper Egypt is a narrow strip of fertile land.
- Lower Egypt is a fan-shaped pattern of water ways.
- The cycle of labor and life itself depends on the annual flooding.
- In 3100 b.c. the twp lands were unified under one king.
- Pharaohs - a name derived from the Egyptian meaning "palace" which they used to mean the King.
- Pharaohs built a new capital at Memphis.
- Egyptian civilization was linked with a single state under a single ruler.
- Egyptians took their religion very seriously.
- The Egyptians thought that there stability and harmony was insink with the stability and harmony with the world.
- The judges dealing out impartial justice in the courts, the tax collectors collecting no more that what was due.
- Every Pharaoh is identified in a different way.
- God was always linked with or actually present in the person of the Pharaoh.
- All the Egyptians believe it was the gods and goddesses had appointed to conduct the rituals and sacrifices.
- The women that were closest to the pharaoh also had a touch of divinity .
- The pharaohs principal wife was usually his sister or half-sister.
- The principle wife was the one that got pregnant with his kids.
- Many Egyptian deities where forms of animals.
- The deities were worshiped.
- Egyptians offered a growing hope of immortality.
- troubles at the end on the Old Kingdom after 2200 B.C. inspired a creative new idea.
- Local administrators who now held power interdependent power came to know that after death it would be the same way.
- The hope of immortality strengthened the Egyptian religion.
- Writing arose in Egypt.
- Record keeping expanded the economy.
- The hieroglyphs were actual pictures of real-life or mythical creatures and objects.
- Some were religious.
- The Egyptian civilization needed scientific and technical knowledge and had specialist to provide it.
- Astronamers created the calender.
- Pyrimids and temples were the places of worship.
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