Part A
The Great Pyramid
-The largest building ever built (By volume)
-Amazing Construction
-Built without modern tools, all by hand
-They managed to build a building in 25 years (all by hand) that has never been equaled
The Step Pyramid
-First monumental stone building in history
-Created by Imnotep
-One mustaba on top of another
-Exemplifies what a wealthy society is (Time, resources, labor)
Mastaba Tombs
-Rock cut tombs
-First development in effort to preserve bodies of royalty
-They don't really work, and get robbed often
-Are tremendous feats of engineering
Great temple of Amun
-Built in the new kingdom
-Nothing short of immense
-In use for 1500 years
-Significant for hypo-style hall (73, 68 foot columns)
-Clearly demonstrates power of religious establishment
Mummification
-Process of preserving a dead body
-All internal organs put into jars, except heart
-Body kept in baking powder-like stuff for 70 days
-Body was wrapped in cloth, in the layers of cloth, artifacts were kept.
-Cost about one year's salary, very expensive
-Done to expedite trip to afterlife
-It shows how important going to the afterlife was for Egyptians
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-Represents water
-Also represents the Nile, on which the Egyptian society was based
-Also was the hieroglyph for the "N" sound
Pharaoh
-Supreme ruler of Egypt
-High priest of Egypt
-Owns everything
-Ran a relatively kind dictatorship
-Exists through history of Egypt
Old Kingdom
-Has Hieroglyphs, religious beliefs, mummification
-Builds the pyramids (about 250)
-Following the collapse of central authority is an intermediate period of civil wars
Middle Kingdom
-About 1975 b.c.
-"Classic" ancient Egypt
-Cultural high point
-Prosperous
-Time of great literature
-Burial practices modified - pyramids topped construction
-Intermediate period afterwards
New Kingdom
-1500 b.c.
-Ancient Egypts richest time
-At the most powerful
-Time of Okhanaten, Tut, Ramseys
Osiris
-God of...