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Egypt Notes
•Egypt and Sumer were like sisters
•The Nile is probably the longest river on Earth, it begins at Lake Victoria deep in East Africa
•The Nile water lili curves to right it curves to the left and empties into the Mediterranean 
•The Nile floods would fertilize the soil now it does not because the dam
•There is a distinct difference between the fertilized soil and the sand
•They kept Goats, Sheep Cattle and Pigs and they planted wheat and Barley, and fished and hunted crocodiles and Hippopotamuses
•Not long before 3000 B.C. a conquerer that united Egypt, he may be named Menes or Scorpion, and after 62 years he was killed by a Hippopotamus 
•Egyptians may have been the very first civilization to write
•They used pictures to represent things that could not be written, often represented names
•They may have been the first to development an Alphabet, they did not have vowels and only had 24 symbols to represent the sounds and consonants 
•The Hieroglyphs are very hard to read and understand and the surviving text does not give much important information
•They believed that Pharos were living gods
•How did they decide who would be a Pharo and how they would be gods?
•What is a Ziggaret? 
•Earliest Pharos built the Pyramids, they were actually really giant tombs for the Pharos 
•We know how the Pharos built these tombs, each year in the time of floods, when farming halted the pharos builders too on many thousand Peasant workers gangs of workers hacked great blocks of stone in quarries hundreds of miles away and then rafted them to the building site. Skillful work men dressed the stones, and then more gangs of Peasants dragged them up long earthened ramps. And shoved them into place. One Pharo built a pyramid measured 451 feet high the men who built it had too move two million blocks of stone and some of the weighed more than a large car
•Building pyramids bonded workers with the Pharo in the after life, and would be buried near the Pharo
•Egypt was a multi racial county 
•2100 B.C. Egypt fell apart, rival factions fought for power and suffered for 150 years
•Later Egypt gained control and moved the capital to Thebes, far south of Memphis they gave the country to centuries of order 
•Asiatic a century later the Asiatic conquered Egypt in a century 
•In the next five hundred years the leaders went to war often, and conquered many small small countries 
•One of the reasons the Egyptians value the dung beetles is because they believe that the dung beetle would drag the sun across the sky 
•He neglected his army’s (Akhenaten) and lost most of the Egyptians rule 
•King Tut
•Because King Tuts never found by grave robbers many riches were still in it when found by British peeps 
•Egyptians did have effective legal system 
•Egypt was a “Power” until 1,100 B.C.