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.