Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Land of the Pharaohs: Egypt

Neolithic age - 'new' stone age, marked by advanced tools and agriculture
Egyptian civilization grew up through a thin strip of fertile land where the Nile crosses the North African Desert, and in broader regions the delta.
Beyond these "two lands" of upper and lower Egypt was where the wealthy Africans and Asians lived.
In the Hymn to the Nile, a part talks about the patterns of the river.
The great sphinx- A famous monument which is also a burial site to royals
Hieroglyphs- the earliest Egyptian writing, in which pictures stood for whole words or separate sounds of words
Pyramid- A massive structure with sloping sides that met at apex, used as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt
A typical Egyptian pose was for the woman or queen to have their arm protectively wrapped around her husband. to signify marriage, status, upper-class women

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