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TodayToday: Pyramids Over Time: Pyramids Over TimeMake sure to hand in your Mesopotamia Make sure to hand in your Mesopotamia chart!chart!

KWL - Egypt

What do you know about it?

What do you want to know?

What have you learned?

Homework

Read 35-41Complete Questions 1-8 on page 41.Title: Pyramids on the Nile Pg 41Copy the questions into the left column and

answer them on the right.Write a brief summary of why Egypt would be

classified as an advanced civilization.

Geography

Movement

The Nile flows north from its source in Lake Victoria to its mouth in the Mediterranean Sea which forms a delta.

Upper and Lower Egypt(This is tricky!)

Rive

r flow

Advanced Cities

Thebes – center of artifacts

Temple of LuxorValley of KingsValley of QueensNecropolis

Giza – Sphinx & Great Pyraminds

Complex Institutions

PharaohDynastyTheocracypolytheismEgyptian gods

Amun-RaOsiris

pyramidsmummification

Record Keeping & Writing

PictogramsHieroglyphicsPapyrusRosetta Stone

Advanced Technology

PyramidCalendarForensicsWater clockSun dialBronze workmedicine

Specialized Workers?