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2686–2182 BC

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Old Kingdom

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3100–2686 BC

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Early period;Egypt united under Menes 3100

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2650 BC

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First pyramid built

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2200–2055 BC

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First Intermediate period, four competing kingdoms, no central Pharoah

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2100 BC

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Peasants’ revolt

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The pyramids give us a lot of

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Information about the Old Kingdom

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Why do the pyramids give us so much info?

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Buildings in the Nile Valley were built over pulled down ones because of little space. Pyramids were built on the edge of the desert where people didn’t live so they were not pulled down

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Primary source info about Pharoahs of Old Kingdom comes from

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Pyramid texts

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”——” written inside pyramids

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Spells concerning the king’s afterlife

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Spells found in pyramids at ——

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Saqqara

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Mummification

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A process of slowly drying a dead body to prevent it from rotting

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Bureaucracy

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An administrative organization with officials and regular procedures

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Vizier

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The “steward of the whole land”

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Pharoah

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Ruler of Egypt, originally meant “great house” or “palace”

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Dynasty

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A family of rulers whose right to rule is passed on with the family

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The pyramids are examples of ——–

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Monumental architecture

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Pyramid texts

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All magic spells read at the king’s funeral for hope of bringing him back to life, oldest Egyptian religious texts

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Pharoah is considered a —– and once they go to the afterlife they are a full —— (—–)

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God
God
Divine right

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Menes

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First Pharoah to unite Egypt

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Immortality is something you expect from

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The Pharoah

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You can tell from the Pyramid Texts that…

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Pharaoh considered a god
Pharaohs are all powerful
Pharaoh owned everything

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Pharaoh was responsible/worshipped for

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Making crops grow and the world work

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Kings ruled by

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Divine right

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Pharaoh’s help

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Bureaucracy

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A vizier was

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At the top of the bureaucracy

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—- and —– were beneath the vizier

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Priests and scribes

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Hieroglyphics

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Egyptian writing system that was used until late 300s AD

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Hieroglyphics has symbols for —– or ——

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Entire words

Single letters

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Symbols of single letters roughly correspond to the

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26 letters of the American alphabet

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Egyptian social stratification

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Pharaoh

Government officials:viziers, priest, noble

Soldiers

Scribes

Merchants

Craftsmen

Peasants

Slaves

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Pyramids are just for

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Pharaoh

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Herodotus called Egypt……….. Because…….

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“The gift of the Nile” b/c the Nile was the basis of the Egyptians’ way of life

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How often does the Nile flood and what does it leave behind?

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Once a year and it leaves behind silt

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Silt

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Rich black soil that allows Better farming

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Describe the flooding of the Nile

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Predictable and less destructive than Tigris and Euphrates

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Officials thy work at the pyramid

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Apart of the Pharaoh’s bureaucracy (bureaucrats)

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Bureaucrats collect

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Taxes and peasants

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Pyramid gangs are

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20 people

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A block is laid every

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2 minutes

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Very few people in Egypt can

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Write

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Scribes are associated with —- class and —- —- class

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Upper

Upper middle

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Social stratification

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Creates social structure

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Social structure in Egypt

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Church, class, government

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Did Pharaohs know how to write?

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Yes

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everything happens because of the

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Gods

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Kemet

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Dark, fertile land, black land

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The Red Land

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Desert

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Professional mourners

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Paid to mourn for Pharoahs

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The Great Pyramid of Cheops was built for —-

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Khufu

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Khufu is from the ———– of the Old Kingdom

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4th dynasty

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Khufu ruled for

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23 years

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Average stone size

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127x127x71 cm

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———– was the kind of stone used

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Limestone/granite

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There are — pyramids in Egypy

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30

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—– were the most important method or transportation for Egyptians

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Boats

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Were there major roads in Egypt?

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No

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In —–, Pharaohs need a boat

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Death

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Real —- were buried in the tomb too

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Boats

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Khufu’s boat may have been apart of a giant

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Funeral procession, or orderly march and ceremony into the pyramid (not sure what it looked like)

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People wearing royal robes were definitely

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Professional mourners

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