Egyptian Civilization

By Grade 6.N
Leo House

How it started ?

Starting around 5500 BCE two major kingdoms developed along the Nile.
Historians call them Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt. Around 3200 BCE, Egypt
was brought together under one rulerKing Narmer (sometimes called
Menes). This is recognized as the beginning of the Egyptian civilization. We
know so much about the Egyptians because there are so many written
resources and because their culture lasted so long with few interruptions.

Ancient Egypt
For almost 30 centuries from its
unification around 3100 B.C. to its
conquest by Alexander the Great in
332 B.C.ancient Egypt was the
preeminent civilization in the
Mediterranean world. From the great
pyramids of the Old Kingdom
through the military conquests of the
New Kingdom, Egypts majesty has
long entranced archaeologists and
historians and created a vibrant field
of study all its own: Egyptology. The
main sources of information about
ancient Egypt are the many
monuments, objects and artifacts
that have been recovered from

The Egyptian Civilization

The Egyptian kings were known as pharaohs and built
burial chambers called pyramids. The best known
pyramid is the famous Great Pyramid at Giza.
The old Egyptian civilization emerged in the Nile River
In Ancient Egypt , they devised a unit of measurement known as cubit, a
mans forearm

THE KINGS AND GODS

Religion was a the center of Egyptian life. Egyptians believed in many Gods,
so they were polytheistic. The Egyptian king was the absolute ruler, and
owner of all the land, water, people, etc. in his or her kingdom. Later
Egyptians would call their kings pharaoh. Egyptian people believed the
pharaoh was a living God, so the Egyptians developed atheocracy

What is Egyptian Civilization???

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of
ancient Northeastern Africa,
concentrated along the lower reaches
of the Nile River in what is now the
modern country of Egypt. It is one of
six civilizations globally to arise
independently. Egyptian civilization
coalesced around 3150 BC with the
political unification of Upper and
Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh

The Temple of Hatshepsut

The Mortuary temple of ,Hatshepsut, who ruled Egypt from around 1479 BC
until her death in 1458 BC, is situated beneath the cliffs at Deir el Bahari on
the west bank of the Nile River . It is a colonnaded structure, which was
designed and implemented by Senemut, the royal architect of Hatshepsut, to
serve for her posthumous worship and to honor the glory of Amun.

Hieroglyphics and Writing system

Egyptians

were a very advanced civilization due to their inventions and technology.

Egyptians developed a writing system calledhieroglyphsthat combined pictures and
symbols. Eventually, they created an alphabet from their symbols. In 1822 CE a
European explorer found what is called theRosetta Stone--a stone with the same
message written in 3 different languages, which finally allowed historians to translate
ancient hieroglyphs. Egyptians developed a 365-day calendar and used a number system
based on 10. Egyptians figured out amazing ways to cut stone to use in their temples
andobelisks. An obelisk is a tall narrow monument that becomes more narrow as it goes
up. They created a writing material similar to paper calledpapyrusfrom reeds found in
the Nile. Egyptians were excellent ship builders and excelled at mathematics. They
used fractions, decimals, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and basic ideas of
geometry. Egyptian art and architecture is famous and has been reused and copied by
many other civilization including Greece, Rome, and even the United States.

The Great Sphinx

Located at the Giza Plateau, The Great Sphinx is one of the largest and
oldest monuments in the world, but basic facts about it, such as who was
the model for the face, when it was built, and by whom, are still
debated. It is the largest monolith statue in the world although it is
considerably smaller than the Pyramids around it. Despite conflicting
evidence and viewpoints over the years, the traditional view held by
modern Egyptologists at large remains that the Great Sphinx was built in
approximately 2500 BC by the pharaoh Khafre, the supposed builder of
the second pyramid at Giza.

Thank you

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