First slide: Economy, Contribution and Egyptology

Second slide: ECONOMY

Third slide: NILE RIVER

4TH: ECONOMY

Ancient Egypts economy was based on agriculture.

Farming the fields, tending livestock, hunting wildlife, and similar agrarian activities
Engaged also in beer and wine making, textile production, leather tanning, woodworking,
pottery making, and baking
The staples of the diet: emmer (a type of wheat) and barley

Taxes were levied on harvests and property by payment in grain and various kinds of labor. Taxes
were calculated for cattle, grain and other goods -- with additional fees for merchants.

the Egyptians sought to control as much of it as they could by constructing dikes, maintaining
high walls, and digging irrigation channels.
They mined gold and copper and established a metalworking industry that produced jewelry,
vessels, statues, weapons, and tools, among other objects.

5th slide:

The Egyptians carried on trade with the Nubians and with many of the peoples of southwestern
Asia, including those of Canaan, Syria, and Mesopotamia.

6th slide:

CONTRIBUTIONS AND LEGACY

7th slide:
RELIGION: MONOTHEISM

The brief period of religious reform associated with the pharaoh Akhenaton, known today as
the Amarna period, introduced the world to a belief in a single god
a basic belief in a good and moral life on earth as a major means of attaining an afterlife

8th: LITERATURE

The ancient Egyptians developed the use of writing on papyrus, the product of a native plant of
the same name that they processed.
Their hieroglyphs may well represent humankind's earliest attempt to write
Some of the mathematical texts taught the finer points of arithmetic, geometry, and even word
problems, and are not unlike modern primers
world's first fairy tale came from ancient Egypt: Tale of Two Brothers

9th: MEDICINE

Medical papyri taught physicians how to deal with both internal medicine and surgery, and
there were texts devoted to pharmaceutical remedies, dental procedures, and veterinary
medicine.

10th: PHILOSOPY AND ART

*Two pics per slide*

12th: EGYPTOLOGY

Egyptology is the study of ancient

Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture andart from the 5th millennium BC until
the end of its native religious practices in the 4th century AD

The decipherment of the ancient Egyptian language by Jean Franois Champollion in 1822
added to the sources of knowledge and created the field of Egyptian philology (study of written
texts) and linguistics.
In the late 20th century, discoveries in the harbor of Alexandria opened the field to underwater
archaeology.
And the discovery in 2006 of a new intact tomb in the Valley of the Kingsthe first such
discovery since 1922appeared to dispel the belief that there were no more important tomb
discoveries to be made

Discovery

Khufu ship

Location

Giza pyramid

Theme

Navigation and Trade by the

Influence on
Modern Life

Fast shipping

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Unfinished obelisk

The Great Pyramid

Aswan

Giza pyramid

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Near Luxor

Everyday Life

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Valley of the

Ancient Egyptian views on the

Kings

afterlife

Akhmim

Mysteries of Ancient Egypt

Kings

Lost Temple
of Akhmim

The Greater
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Temple of Abu

Abu Simbel

Simbel

Secret Mummy
Cave

Fast construction

Ancient Egyptian treasures

Tutankhamun

Tomb of Seti I

techniques

Labour unions

Valley of the

Tomb Builders

Ancient Egyptian construction

Social hierarchy

complex

Tomb of

The Town of the

Ancient Egyptians

Deir el-Bahri

The religious and political roles of

the Pharaoh

Grave robbing and Bodysnatching

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Peace treaties

Religious rituals

Valley of the

Bahariya

Ancient Egyptian cultural

Cultural

Golden Mummies

Oasis

influences on Ancient Greek and

interconnection

Roman cultures