prehistory - 6

Today's planning
Read 1.4: Ancient Egypt

Info about Egypt

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Today's planning
Read 1.4: Ancient Egypt

Info about Egypt

Work on your assignments

Slide 1 - Slide

Read the text
Read paragraph 1.4; Ancient Egypt


Done?
Start working on assignment
2, 3, 4, 6, 8

timer
10:00

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Ancient Egypt
Main questions:

- How did the Ancient Egyptians get their food?
- How was Ancient Egypt governed?
- How did people live together in Ancient Egypt?
- What do we know about Ancient Egypt?

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Ancient Egypt
Farming in Egypt
Egypt is a desert
Fertile silt (clay) around the Nile
Farmers planted crops there

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Ancient Egypt
Farming in Egypt
Canals and pools to catch water > irrigation

Irrigation caused a agricultural surplus

Craftsmen traded their products for food
Some even became merchants

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Ancient Egypt
Pharaohs
Egypt was governed by a king, a pharaoh

Tasks:
- making laws                                          - talking to the gods
- making people follow them
- leader of the army

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Ancient Egypt
- Pharaoh
- priests
- officials: generals, treasure keepers
- scribes: reading and writing, doing taxes
- Merchants and craftsmen
- farmers
- slaves

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Drawing Egyptian society

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Ancient Egypt
Gods of nature
Egyptians believed in many gods
polytheism


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What to do now?
Read paragraph 1.4; Ancient Egypt


Make assignment 2, 3, 4, 6, 8
timer
10:00

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