Download Strong government meant people were safe.

1) Who was in charge of Egypt?
The Pharaoh
• (good example of strong
central government)
2) This strong government had what effect
on where people lived – how was their life now
different to prehistoric people?
• Strong government meant
people were safe.
– As a result they could stay in one place, and start
to farm.
– People were no longer nomadic (moving from
place to place). They could now live more settled
lives.
3) Why could people now do specialist jobs?
• Because people were now farming, more and more
food was produced.
• This is called an
AGRICULTURAL SURPLUS.
• As a result not everyone had to farm all day. People
became builders, traders as well as DOCTORS.
4) Religious beliefs led to Egyptians doing
what to dead bodies?
• Embalming or
mummifying dead bodies.
They believed the soul left the body when you died,
but at some point it would return and need to re-use
the body. It was vital therefore that the body was
preserved.
5)How did this process help medical
knowledge improve?
• Priest-doctors learnt about all the major
organs – heart, lungs, liver – as they
removed them from dead bodies.
6) At the same time how did this process
limit medical progress?
Full dissection was banned
– as the soul would need to re-use the body.
• As a result their understanding of ANATOMY
(structure of the body) remained limited.
7) Who was the Egyptian god of healing?
Imhotep
8) What was the first ever natural theory of
disease which the Egyptians developed?
Theory of the
Blocked Channels
F irst
E ver
N atural
T heory
Of
D isease
9) Give an example of a common-sense (natural)
cure from Egyptian times.
Willow was used
as an antiseptic.
10) Why did the Egyptians think it
was important to keep clean?
• Priest-doctors kept clean for religious reasons
– out of respect for the gods. They shaved
their hair, and always wore clean clothes – but
they did it for religious reasons.
• Others in society copied them.