Egyptian Life

Today in class we went over a PowerPoint on Egyptians. The Upper Egypt was a 500 mile long strip of fertile land along the Nile down South. The Lower Egypt was the wide land of the Nile delta, emptying into the Mediterranean Sea up North. The Nile was the major provider of life for the Egyptians. round 3100BC the two lands were untied under a single king or "pharaoh".(Narmer AKA Menes). Pharaoh was an all powerful and worshiped as a god and intimately connected to the other major Egyptian gods and goddesses. Egyptians relied on a harmony and balance of the universe, which the called "Maat". Pharaohs had multiple wives and social success were through the palace. Women could inherit money from their husbands and divorce, but very few women had political power. Some gods or goddess were represented by animal heads or bodies and possibly a mix. Egyptians also had an afterlife called Ka. This is where they were mummified to preserve the bodies for the post-death life. All souls would need to justify themselves at the  point of death and be either sent to an after-world paradise or eaten by the jaws of a monster. This is as far as we got today.