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Divya Singh 5G2 The Great pyramids of Giza are the oldest and largest stone structure in the world with a base about 13 acres long! This is about as big as nine football fields! The pyramids were made of over 2,000,000 stone blocks with each block weighing about two and a half tons! There are 10 pyramids, but these three are the most famous. They were built in 2,600 BCE through 2, 500 BCE. The pyramids are in Egypt, which is in Giza, Africa. These pyramids were built for Pharaoh Khufu and his two sons, Pharaoh Khafre and Pharaoh Menkaure. These pyramids show that Egypt was an advanced civilization because of 7 civilization traits, but here are 3: writing, religion, and social structure. All civilizations had a highly developed writing system, and the pyramids indubitably helps show writing. There was a social class in Egypt which dealt only with writing called scribes. Scribes were the official record keepers and writers of Egypt and they were the ones who wrote on the pyramid walls with hieroglyphics. Hieroglyphics were the writing system that scribes used to write on the pyramids walls. The hieroglyphics show people what life was like in Ancient Egypt and that is how people know that ancient Egypt is a very complex civilization. The last way that ancient Egypt is a complex civilization, by looking at writing, is that Egypt had a success in writing by keeping track of the Egyptian’s body who is in the pyramid. The scribes wrote on the pyramid walls about what the Egyptian’s life was like and that helps researchers prove that ancient Egypt was a complex civilization. Egypt had success in writing for sure! Ancient Egyptian pyramids undoubtedly showed religion in ancient Egypt. The priests showed a complex civilization when looking at the pyramids because priests were the people who did the rituals for the body in the pyramid. The highest rank of priests were the pharaohs. Another example of religion is beliefs in the afterlife and the pyramids showed the afterlife by having so many pictures on the walls of the pyramids of their gods. These pictures showed the gods: Horus, the Devourer, Ra, Thoth, Anubis, and Osiris, the pyramids showed this because the body in the pyramid was going to the afterlife. The pyramids also showed religion because it had the body which was going to the afterlife. The Egyptians believed that if the body was damaged or rotted, the gods wouldn’t accept it. Ancient Egypt’s pyramids helped showed Egypt as a complex civilization through religion for sure! The ancient Egyptian pyramids clearly showed social structure in Egypt. For example, the pyramids were built for the pharaoh or other high classes. This shows social structure because the pharaoh, and other highly respected classes, only got pyramids and tombs. Another example is how the government officials managed the building of the pyramids. The government officials were highly respected and that is why they were the ones who directed the building. The last example is peasants (the lowest and largest social class, received no respect) were the Egyptians who built the pyramids. The peasants didn’t get any tombs and yet they had to build tombs for other Egyptians; and they were the Egyptians who got the muddy work of pyramid building. The pyramids unquestionably showed that ancient Egypt had a social structure!
The Great Pyramids of Giza, without question, showed that ancient Egypt was a complex civilization. Ancient Egypt shows all seven civilization traits but three traits most clearly show a complex civilization in Egypt. These three are writing, religion, and social structure. For example, there is writing on the pyramid walls. None of the burials would have happened if religion was not in Egypt because their beliefs in the afterlife is what their religion is. Egypt also indubitably shows social structure because only pharaohs got pyramids. Ancient Egypt was definitely a complex civilization! The question is: did ancient Egypt help citi­states today get civilized? Bibliography Bleiberg, Edward I. "Khufu." Pharaohs and Pyramids 2 (2007): n. pag. Gale Student Resources in Context. Web. 27 Apr. 2014. <http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/retrieve.do?sgHitCountType=None&sort=Relevance&prodId=SRC­4
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