cyber day: prezi notes

so today was great because we had a cyber day and we didn't have to go to school! I like cyber days waaaaaaaaay better than regular school days but anyway, Mr. Schick wanted us to take notes on the Prezi presentation so here are my notes: (I didn't take notes on the whole presentation because I figured we finish it in class)

Geography
Daily Life
Pharaohs - the political and religious leader of the Egyptian people, holding the titles: "Lord of the Two Lands"

Goddess & Gods
Pyramids
Geography
-Egyptian life was centered around the Nile River
-Water for drinking, for bathing and for transportation
-every July the Nile floods
-every October it leaves behind rich soil
-the delta is a broad, marshy triangular area of fertile silt

-managing the river required a technological break through in irrigation
Pyramids
-the Great Sphinx of Giza: built 2555 - 2532 BC
-a recumbent lion with a human's head
-oldest monumental statue in the world

Daily Life
-the rankings:
 Pharaoh
 Government Officials - Nobles, Priests
 Soldiers
 Merchants
 Artisans
 Farmers
 Slaves & Servants

-slaves/servants helped the wealthy with household and child-raising duties
-they raised wheat, barley, lentils, onions - benefited from irrigation of the Nile

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