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Egyptian Jigsaw: Art & Religion Write three facts for each topic. In the beginning there was a god named Atum. How the World Began Gods and Goddesses Life After Death Heliopolis, Memphis and Hermopolis honored a different set of gods led by re Ptah and Thoth. Re , the sun god became the most important Tombs were filled with clothes, furniture and anything else that the deceased would need in the after life Temples Priests Magic Music and Dancing The Ancient Egyptians built thousands of temples to honor the god and house the dead. Priests would talk to he gods as the representatives of the pharaoh. People believed that magic kept away danger and sickness or gave good luck. Music and dancing was a regular part of Egyptian life , Where mostly women were the dancers and musicians Statues & Sculptures Egyptians tried to get honored by the pharaoh , Queens and Gods by making beautiful works of art. Egyptian Jigsaw: Technology Write three facts for each topic. Some tools they used were picks, drills, and chisels made of copper, bronze, and Tools for Building basalt. The Egyptians made large sleds to carry as much as two and a half tons. About 100 men pulled the sleds down to the river were the boats were. Pyramids are huge tombs made out of stone to preserve the dead mummies in. The first Pyramid was built in about 2600 The Great Pyramids of Egypt B.C.E. Later the Egyptians built new pyramids that had smoother sides and a point at the top were all the sides met. Using the Nile River The Egyptians relied on the yearly flooding of the Nile River to provide water for their farms They dug canals to carry the water to dry land and also they built dikes r walls of mud that kept the water from flowing and thus flooding where it was not supposed to go. As a result of this irrigation system farmers were able to grow several crops per season Transportation The Egyptian Calendar The Invention of Clocks The first boats Egyptians created were rafts that did not have sails and would ride on the rivers currents. By 2900 B.C.E. the Egyptians invented stringer sturdier boats with sails that were made of wood and no longer the reeds of a papyrus plant The cycle of flooding for the Nile was used for the Egyptian calender IT flooded close to every 365 days They could predict floods and divided the calendar into 12 parts because of the way the moon looked at different times One-way Egyptians tracked time was the sundial. They put a stick in the ground that was surrounded by numbers then when the sun made a shadow over it they could tell what time of day I was Egyptians could tell whether it was day or night with a water clock, that was one pot with in another pot Advances in Medicine Writing It All Down Egyptians found that medicines could be made from certain plants to treat patients. Egyptian doctors found that washing their hands and heating their instruments with fire before surgery reduced infection in patients. The Egyptians invented one of the world’s first writing systems Scholars, or educated people, wrote with picture symbols called hieroglyphs, which were developed so that kings could keep track of their land and livestock The hieroglyphs were carved on walls of temples and tombs or were written on the papyrus paper Egyptian Jigsaw: Land & Resources Write three facts for each topic. The Nile River People on the Land A Land of Plenty Farming Tools The Nile River was used for farming , fishing , raising animals , and trading. People began to settle around the Nile 5000 years ago. Egyptians grew wheat , flax and barley in huge amounts , but if the farmer couldn’t come up with required crop tax he was brutally beaten. Egyptians used hoes and plows to break up soil and they used a tool called shaduf to bring back the water from the canals to there farms. Natural Resources Safe from Attack Nile had fresh water and fish also the people used the mud to make houses. Egyptians were protected from attack by water falls and swamps and the natural barriers of ancient Egypt prevented frequent attacks from outsiders. The swamps and desserts protected them from others and the natural flooding made land fertile and easy to grow. The Gift of the Nile Egyptian Jigsaw: Home Life Write three facts for each topic. Family Life A normal Egyptian family would have three to five children and also monkeys and dogs were most family’s. A Town House & Villas Town houses were often two or three stories high and made of mud bricks because wood was scarce and was mud bricks were enexpensive Marriage Children The Role of Women Egyptian girls get married between the age of 12 and 14. They did not wear cloths until there were 12 years old They weaved linen from flax and making clothes. Learning Young Meals Personal Hygiene Girls did not and there learned cooking , sewing from there mothers The main meal in a normal family was salted fish ,onions and bread made from brown wheat They used khol on there eyes to protect them from the sun , dust , and dieseies.