Cyber day homework

5 questions for Ancient Egypt test

1. Does women have right in ancient Egypt society? If it does, give some examples. 
2. What happen if the God in ancient Egypt doesn't bring happiness life to his people?
3. Why Egyptians mummify the body of dead people and how?
4. What is the precursor of paper invented by Egyptians?
5. What's the purpose of Egyptian in building the wooden sailboats?

Today we learned a bunch of staffs about Egypt. Here is the notes.

• Pharaoh was all powerful. worshipped as a God and intimately connected to other major Egyptian and Goddesses

• Women could inherit money and land and divorce their husbands, though only a tiny few ever wielded real political power. 

• God were often portrayed with animal heads or bodies.

• Egyptians believed in an afterlife and mummified bodies to preserve them for his post-death journey. 

• Earliest Egyptian writing formal C. 3100 B.C and were small pictures knowns as hieroglyphs

• Papyrus, the precursor to paper, was stored in scrolls and these scrolls were the books of ancient Egypt. 

• Egyptians astronomers created a calendar with 12 months and 365 days to make better senses of seasonal cycles.

• Wooden sailboats were constructed to increase transport ability on the Nile. 

• The Pyramids were massive stone tombs, originally covered in marble but the marble was later shipped off during the Muslim conquest. 

• Stone sculptures and interiors painting depicted humans and Gods in a series of regulated puses, often in profile and without perspective, but were highly effective. 

Today we played a game call" Building your Pyramid". In this game, you are in charge of building pyramid for King. You have to make decision for every step. For example: material, food for workers, location, the proportion of different workers, angle of your Pyramid, etc. This is a pretty challenge game because one wrong decision can mess up the whole project. My first try and second try are all failed. Fortunately, I successfully build the pyramid in the third time. I'm so proud for myself!

Class on February 19

Class on February 19

  Today we studied a chapter about the ancient Egypt. Egyptian's life is centered around the would's longest river, The Nile river. One of the unique thing about this river is it is flow from south to north instead of north to south. Egyptians use water from Nile for drinking, irrigating, bathing and transportation. Nile river flood every year on July and leave behind rich soil on October. In the Egypt,
there is a huge statue called" The great Sphinx of Giza". This is a statue with a lion head and human's body. It is build on 2555-2532BC, more than 4000 years ago. It is the oldest monumental statue in the world. Egypt have a hirachy social form. The slaves at the bottom of pyramid serve rich people with household and child raising duties.