Land of the Pharaohs: Egypt

•All about & around the Nile River

•more than 90%. lived around the Nile River

•The Nile River is the main

source of life

•Powered over by a Pharaohs

•Pharaohs were known as  "half god/ half human"

Ancient Egyptians leaned how to harvest and plant

•"maat "means everything is  going well

•Pharaohs were thrown out of power if everything was not "maat"

•Pharaohs had many wives

•women's rights in ancient Egypt were decent

•Pharaohs were combined with animals with a human head on an animal body or an animal head with a human  body.

•Egyptians believed in an after-life and mummified bodies to preserve them for the post-death journey either to go to an after-life paradise or the jaws of a monster

•used hieroglyphs (little pictures used to write things down)

•had scribes to write things down

•used papyrus as paper

•Egyptian astronomers created a calendar with 365 days

•made potions to help people when they were sick

•wooden sailboats were made

•pyramids were made from stone tombs covered in marble