History 3

Hieroglyphics

•Form of picture writing

• The Egyptian invented worlds first form of paper (papyrus)

Mathematics and Astronomy

• They learned to navigate their boats by the stars and used the changing pattern of the stars to plan their year

• They worked out there are 365 days a year and 24 hours

• 12 months

The Nile River

• It is the longest river in the world

• It begins in the high mountains of central Africa

• The Nile valley is a thin strip of land

• it provided drinking water, irrigation, fishing, mud, transportation and reeds

• The Nile floods it's banks every summer which brought fertile soil

• The waters returned in autumn

• They farmed wheat barley, lentils beans, vegetables and date palms

• shadufs

Social structure

Pharaohs were the greatest ruler and was the richest and most powerful in the land

The last Pharaoh was Cleopatra

Then came the vizier

Priests and nobles

Skilled craftsmen

Slaves/ peasants

Beliefs and tradition

The Egyptian people believed life after death

They worshipped in temples

The Egyptian people had thousands of gods

Ordinary people would go to world of Osiris

Medicine and Physicians

The Egyptian people made the first scientific discoveries about the human body

They noticed that the pulse in the wrist linked to ones heart beat

They learned to mend broken bones, to fill holes in teeth (dental filling)

They invented embalming (empty the skull through the nostrils

Trained at a temple school

The Sphinx, pyramids and temples

The Sphinx- mythical monster (Pharaohs head and the body of a lion)

The Sphinx is 73 meters long and 20 metres high

Temples

Children went to a temple school

Women took food and goods to the temple as offerings to the gods

Grain was stored in the temple

The temple of Hatsheput is known as the magnificent of magnificent

Tutankhamen

In 1922 Tutankhamen tomb was found

His tomb was filled with treasure

The room was known as the antechamber

Tutankhamen died at the age of 19/18