Showing posts with label EARLY EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EARLY EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION. Show all posts
EARLY EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION
EARLY EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION
Egypt – surrounded by natural barriers like deserts, mountains and seas
Egypt – surrounded by natural barriers like deserts, mountains and seas
Nile River- longest river
- played an important role in Egyptian’s civilization
- make fertile lands
- source of irrigation
- great transportation system
PHARAOH– “great houses”
- has absolute power
- owned lands
- commanded the army, controlled the irrigation system
- law maker, dispensed justice
- tax collector
THEOCRACY – a government in which the ruler is presumed to posses both spiritual or divine power and civil authority
- developed a system of government to answer the need of controlling the Nile River
- through intermarriages, the little chiefdoms eventually became divided into two main divisions:
LOWER EGYPT – consisting of the northern part of the Nile Valley including the river’s mouth or delta
UPPER EGYPT – central part of the Nile Valley; extended along the river valley southward from Memphis to Aswan
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