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Egypt ALEHANDRO Elgado im single ladies PHILAPEENO PIPER hot and ready to trot Juan Twan AND Chu Chang I'm just chillin eatin bacon EGYPT SPORTS Egyptians played sports that we still play because of them. Some games we don’t play anymore. Here are most of the sports wrestling, weight lifting, long jump, swimming, rowing ,shooting, fishing, hockey, gymnastics, handball, javelin, boxing, high jump, archery, tug of hoop, marathon, equilibrium, tug of war, and equestrian. They had gymnast competitions and did events that we do today like consecutive volt, floor exercises, and rhythmic. Some games that aren't played anymore are tug of hoop, equilibrium, and equestrian. How to play equilibrium two players on the opposite team stand on their heels bodies stretched out in a slanted position while holding hands. Whatever team stands up the longest wins. Egypt sports part 2 Tug of hoop is a sport kind of like tug of war with a hoop. The concept is your holding one end of a hoop and someone else is holding the other. Your goal is to pull the opponent [person on the other end] to your side. When they cross the line you win. Mummies Priest of Egypt developed ways to preserve or mummify a body. Egyptians mummified people and animals. Cats had great burials you can find chambers that are for cats. Mummifying a body can take up to seventy days. There are many steps to mummifying a body. Step1. You must pullout the brain. Step2. The body is purified. Step3. All organs except for the heart are removed from the body and placed in special jars. Step4. The body is filled. Step5. Dry the body out and bathe it in matron [A salt like substance] then leave the body out for forty days. Step6. Putting on the make-up and wrap the body. Step7. Cover the body in resin. Step8. Put the body in coffin and have the ceremony. Abu Simbel Abu Simbel is two ancient temples in southern Egypt. The were built by mighty king Ramses. The temples were built out of a sandstone cliff on the west side of the Nile River. In the front of the temples were four giant statues of Ramses that were sixty-five feet tall. The temples were built in between 1264 B.C and 1244 B.C. They were relocated in 1968 so the Aswan Dam wouldn’t flood the temple. The temples are one hundred feet tall today. Upper Egypt Upper Egypt is a narrow river valley with very steep cliffs rising on both sides. The valley is also known as Nile valley. The Nile valley is home to the kings and queens. The Aswan Dam threatened the land of Upper Egypt. Upper Egypt bordered Kush that is now called Sudan. The main city of Upper Egypt was Hierakonopolis. Each town had their own god. Papyrus was the symbol of Lower Egypt whilst and lotus flower were recognized the symbol of Upper Egypt. Nut She is usually naked with stars around her and she is upside down in an arch. She is the daughter of Tefnut and Shu. Her brother and husband was Geb the earth god. She has four children Osiris, Set, Isis, Nephthys. Nut means sky. She is the granddaughter of Ra. Ra got annoyed with Geb and Nut and locked them in a permanent embrace. When Ra was done ruling Nut went to the heavens and came back a cow. Isis • Isis is one of the oldest gods. She was one of the first gods worshiped in lower Egypt. Then everyone started to in Egypt. She was the goddess of the sky. She married her brother Osiris. She had a headdress shaped like a throne. She has a pair of cow horns with a sun disk. Nephthys • She was the goddess of mourning and sadness. She was a friend and a protector of the dead. She is a woman with a house and basket on her head. Her symbols are a kite, crow, bones, and skulls. She was the sister of Osiris. She is able to kill people with her fire breath Amun • He is a man with a ram head. He also wears an Ostrich fur hat. He was important through history. He was combined with Ra and became more powerful. His name became Amun-Ra. Giza People also call it Gizah. They sit at ‘’the top of a limestone cliff.” Tombs are still being found. There are three large statues and pyramids including the Great Pyramid and the Great Sphinx. It has Khufu’s tomb, Khafre’s Pyramid Complex, Menkaure’s and Sphinx temples. It was built as a tomb for King Khufu. It once had all King Khufu’s treasures. It was 481 feet tall when it was built. Know it is around 455 feet tall. Each side is 755 feet long. Each stone weighed 2000 pounds. It covers over 13 acres. It was made with 2.3 million stone blocks. Shu • • • • • Shu was the god of air, wind He protected Ra on his journey through the under world He had to protect him from Apep the snake god at one point He would torture and kill corrupted souls He was described, with a Ostrich feather headdress with a sun disk on his head usually with his wife and sister Tefnut • There are no known temples for Shu Osiris & Isis story Osiris took his father Geb’s place on the throne and ruled fairly. Osiris’s brother was jealous and wanted to kill Osiris Set made a coffin that only fits Osiris in it Set tricked him into going in the coffin and through him in the Nile river it floated away into the sea Set was sure Osiris was dead but Isis his wife/sister wouldn't rest till he was found. Isis found the coffin and brought back to Egypt he had died. Set was curious so he hunted the body down then cut Osiris up into fourteen pieces then buried each piece in a different spot along the Nile. Isis did not give up. She got help from her sister Nepthys, she found all but one of the pieces and Anubis helped her to put Osiris back together again. He came to life briefly and became the father of Horus. Then remade him the king of the underworld. Osiris & Isis story #2 Isis protected Horus from Set by hiding him in the reeds on the Nile until he was old enough to avenge his fathers death. After a long battle Horus defeated Set and became king of Egypt. So Egyptians believed that the spirit of Horus entered every king and that when the king died his spirit went to the next world and was joined to the spirit of Osiris instead. Tawreret Taweret has a head of a Hippopotamus with arms and legs of a lion the back and tail of a crocodile and the chest and stomach of a pregnant woman. Many of the gods and goddesses in ancient Egypt had temples to honor them. Other gods and goddesses like Taweret and Bes were worshipped by people in their own homes. Tawaret was a goddess not a god. Taweret had many variatins of her name they are Taurt, Tuat, Taueret, tuart, and tawart, and in Greek it is Thoeris and toeris. Her name means one who is great. She is a demon wife of Apep and Apep is the god of evil. Egyptian Foods The Egyptians ate many different foods. They also ate healthy. Even the poorest people had a good diet. They ate all kinds of fruit and vegetables. Only the rich ate meat of all different kinds. Cow and sheep was the main meat eaten by the rich Egyptians. Priestesses related pigs with the evil god Set and that made most people never eat it. Egyptians ate calves, oxen, duck, geese, and pigeon. The meat in Egypt was expensive because there were very few grazing pastures for the cows, sheep, and other animals to eat. Some people preserved fish and duck with salt. When you put the salt on the meat the salt absorbs all of the moisture in the meat so it stays fresh longer. Papyrus is a plant which once grew in the wild of the Egyptians delta and also in the Nile river valley which is rare. From a horizontal root growing in shallow fresh water papyrus grew up to 7 feet tall and in small brown flowers that often produced fruit. The plants were once part of vegetation of the region. 1.Cut the stalks. 2.Peelaway the outer layer of the papyrus plant. 3.Cut up the inner portion into strips. 4.Place the papyrus plant strips In water. 5.Lay the papyrus plant strips on a hard flat surface. 6.Roll the excess water and sugar out of the plant. 7.Weave the strips together. 8.Place the bundle between two wooden boards. 9.Replace the wet linen sheets with dry ones. 10.Flatten the sheet. 11.Pollish the papyrus. 13.Then you have papyrus paper. Seti Is the son of Ramses I and Sitre. Seti became a man in the military like his father. He was called Powerful man by the Egyptians, He was also called Troop, Commander, and head archer. He lead many campaigns for his father and his self we they reined. When his father died Seti became Menmaatre Seti which was his pharaoh name. He married Tuya and they had four children their third was Ramses II who became pharaoh in about 1279 B.C. Thebes Thebes was the capital of Egypt during the New Kingdom and it became a very important center of worship for the god Amun or Amon. Thebes is located both on the east and west banks of the Nile river. Thebes means the southern city. The city had many monuments of kings such as Tutankhamen and RamessesII. The Ramesseum is one of the best still standing examples of ancient Egypt's history. It was built from 1279-1212 B.C and it was built on the ruined temple of Seti I. The temple was organized on the East-West axis. The pore villagers are stealing ancient artifacts from the waters of the Nile River. Nun Nun was a man carrying bark .According to an ancient Egyptian myth Nun was the waters of chaos. Nun was the only thing that existed before the land. The first part of land came out of Nun. Nun was associated with the chaos at the edge of the universe. Hathor Hathor is a woman with the ears of a cow, a cow, and a woman with and a headdress of horns and a sun disk. Hathor was the wife of Horus, and was sometimes thought of as the mother of the pharaoh . A large temple was made to honor Hathor at dendera. Atum • Atum is a man wearing a double crown. The ancient Egyptians believe Atum was the first god on earth. The Egyptians believed that Atum rose out of the water of chaos(Nun) and created all of the other gods or goddesses. Sobek was a man with the head of a crocodile and the headdress of feathers and a sun disk. Sobek was connected with the Nile and protected the king. Live crocodiles were kept in pools at the temples built to worship and honor Sobek. hieroglyphics Hieroglyphic writing The Egyptians made an alphabet completely made out of pictures. The word hieroglyphs means holy writing in Greek. Ancient Egyptians believed that the hieroglyphs were the gods words. Some symbols were two to three syllables long for one symbol. The Egyptians said that their writing was from the gods. Jean Francois Champollion was the first person to be able to read hieroglyphics in 1822.In the Egyptian language there was no words for a or and. Hieroglyphs were written by scribes and priests. At first the hieroglyphs were simply just pictures. Geb Geb’s appearances are a man lying down before the arch of the sky goddess Nut and a man with a goose on his head. Geb is the god of the Earth. Geb was the husband and brother of the goddess Nut. He was the father of Osiris, Isis, Nepthys, and Set. When Set and Horus fought for the Throne of Egypt Geb made Horus the god of the living. The ancient Egyptians thought that earthquakes were Gebs laughter. THANKS FOR WATCHING!!!!!!!