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Ancient Kingdoms of the Nile Part I
CHPT. 2 PRENTICE HALL WORLD HISTORY
ANCIENT KINGDOMS OF NILE- KEY PTS P.24-27
P.27
#3- What were two examples
of how the Nile shaped ancient
Egypt?
2 EXAMPLES OF HOW NILE SHAPED EGYPT
Nile’s water & silt supported agriculture & rise
of civilization.

Nile served as a natural highway for trade &
helped unite Egypt.
ANCIENT EGYPT- 3 TIME PDS.

Old Kingdom (about 2700 B.C.- 2200 B.C.)

Middle Kingdom (about 2050 B.C.-1800 B.C.)

New Kingdom (about 1550 B.C.-1100 B.C.)
OLD KINGDOM
What
was the Old Kingdom well
known for?
OLD KINGDOM
Created a strong, centralized state
 Famous for building pyramids

PYRAMIDS

Tombs for eternity

Egyptian belief in afterlife
So they preserved the bodies of
their dead rulers & provided them
with everything they would need in
their new lives. MUMMIFICATION
and EMBALMING
EMBALMING AND MUMMIFICATION
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/mummies/st
ory/main.html
PYRAMIDS

Workers lifted millions of limestone blocks (…or
did they…?)

The people building the pyramids had no iron
tools or wheeled vehicles!!!

Building a pyramid took so long that often a
pharaoh would begin to build his tomb as soon
as he inherited the throne.
THE PYRAMIDS AT GIZA
obelisk
PYRAMIDS

Must have involved incredible amount of
planning & organization

For example- Thousands of farmers, who had
to be fed each day, worked on the pyramids
when not planting or harvesting crops.
PYRAMIDS

First emerged during the Old Kingdom

Why do historians believe that Egyptians who
were living during the Old Kingdom created the
pyramids?
PYRAMIDS

Historians believe Egyptians built the pyramids
as a demonstration of the strength and wealth
of their society.
MIDDLE KINGDOM

Rocky or difficult time (referred to as turbulent
by our text) because Nile did not rise as
regularly

Still, there were a couple key achievements:
-Nile drainage project
-Conquered part of Nubia
MIDDLE KINGDOM
1700 B.C.- Catastrophe
arrived when the Hyksos
came to Egypt.
 Hyksos- Had horse-drawn war chariots
& adopted Egyptian customs, beliefs and names


After more than 100 yrs, Egyptian leaders drove
out the Hyksos & set up the New Kingdom.
NEW KINGDOM

Period of expansion where Egypt’s borders
were expanded to the Euphrates through
conquest

Egypt was affected by this expansion because
the region grew too large & couldn’t maintain
itself
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EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION- KEY PTS P.28-33

Story of Osiris and Isis
-Set: jealous

Why could Egyptians relate to this story?
PARTNER WORK

Why could Egyptians relate to the story of Osiris
and Isis?
OSIRIS
Roles of Osiris
Ruled the
underworld
Promised the faithful
they would have life
after death
God of the
Nile
ISIS
Promised the faithful they
would have life after death
Care for children
Roles of Isis
Spin flax
Grind corn
EGYPTIANS COULD RELATE TO THE STORY OF
OSIRIS AND ISIS…..

Because it was a story that all Egyptians could
understand and connect to since it was about
universal feelings (such as love, jealousy, fear
of death.)
A FATEFUL TEST
Egyptians believed…..

Each soul had to pass a test in order to win
eternal life. Turn to a new partner & come up
w/a 2-3 sentence response describing what
the “fateful test” involved.
FATEFUL TEST- THE TEST EACH SOUL HAD TO
PASS TO GAIN ETERNAL LIFE
 Dead soul ferried across a lake of fire to the
hall of Osiris

Osiris weighed the person’s heart vs. the
feather of truth
Vs.
FATEFUL TEST

Heart vs. Feather of Truth

Sinners
Eater of the Dead
Worthy Souls
Happy Field of Food…
living here forever in bliss
THE GODS

Horus
Amon Ra
DESCRIBE THE PRACTICE OF MUMMIFICATION.
Find a new partner to work with on these
questions Why did Egyptians practice mummification?
 Describe what the process of mummification
involved.
ROSETTA STONE
HIEROGLYPHICS