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One wrong on Egypt is a 95. Excellent. __Angel Nieves________________ Humanities/Period 1 & 2 November 23, 2011 Mr. Baskin

Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt had an Effective Civilization, because they had good geography, technology, and economy. They also had a writing system, government, laws, and society. In addition, they had religion, art, and architecture. Egypt is located in northern __**Africa**____________. The __**_Nile**____ River is the longest river in the world. It flows northward through Egypt. The Nile empties into the __**_Mediterranean** ____________ Sea. The Nile River helped people to get __places______________. The river helped people to get food because the river supplied the Egyptians with ______water and silt__________so that they could grow crops. Irrigation was a very important part of the economy in Ancient Egypt. Irrigation is a system that allows you to bring ___**water___**_______ to farmland through a system of pipes or ______**shadoof**____[canals].___. Irrigation helped the people build an economy or make a living. The type of government that the Ancient Egyptians had was called a monarchy. A monarch is a form of government ruled by __**a king**___________ _____________________. In Ancient Egypt the name of the ruler was _____**Pharaoh**______________. His job was to _**be in charge of the church and the people.**_____________________________. In the Ancient Egypt the system of writing they used was called______**hieroglyphics**________________. This used about __**800**_____picture signs, or hieroglyphs. Each sign or symbol could stand for an ____**object__**______, a ____**sound_**_________, or a__**letter_**____________.. In Egyptian society the role, or job of __**a_**__**scribe**__________was writing letters, records, and contracts. There were four ranks in the Egyptian “social pyramid”. The first and top rank in the pyramid was the _queen_______ or __king_________. The next, and second part of the pyramid are the priests and members of the _______**army_**________. After the second group, comes the third. The third group includes ____**merchants, artisans_**______________ and ______**_farmers___**______ The last and final part of the pyramid includes the_____**slaves_**_________.

The Egyptians had a ___**_polytheistic_**______________religion. This means that they believed in many _**_gods__**_______. The head god of their religion was Ra—the sun god. Pyramids were huge __**_stone_**_____ structures in Ancient Egypt. The purpose, or function, of a pyramid was religious. The purpose was to be a burial ______**ground**__________ for the pharaohs and their families in when they died.