Cyber Day Assignment

                                                            

            Ancient Egypt was one of the first civilizations to be developed in the world. They made an organized and productive way to live a life that didn’t circle around hunting and gathering. There are five elements that can be used to describe life in Ancient Egypt: Daily Life, Geography, Pharaohs, Pyramids, and Gods and Goddesses. But before all of this the human species was just a bunch of hunter gathers trying to find food and survive. After the Agricultural Revolution people finally started to settle in permanent homes and focus on more things than just hunting and gathering. Women could start taking care of babies, and people could use their skills for other stuff besides hunting. The men who continued to hunt were held at a very high social status. Compared to the women who took care of babies, and the people who did things like making sandals, hunting and bringing home food was much more epic. This was the start of hierarchy in the ancient world.

            
                     Hierarchy became even more present after the Egyptians started to become more civilized. People started getting jobs like doctors, priest, judges, etc. You were put at a certain social ranking basically depending on your occupation. Obviously the pharaoh was at the top of the social hierarchy. The pharaoh was the religious and political leader of the Egyptians. They had a special connection with the gods and were even though of as half god-half man. Government officials were next in the hierarchy. Since government and religion were basically the same thing, nobles and priest were included in this ranking. This was thought as the “white kilt class” because they were so rich that they paid servants to keep their clothes clean. The soldiers came next in the class ranking. They would ride around on chariots and carry wooden weapons. After them came the scribes and then the merchants. The scribes would keep records, write stories, and even write down medical treatments for the doctors to keep. Merchants basically just traded things until the invention of coins. After the merchants came the artisans, who would carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes in the afterlife. Then came the farmers who grew crops, and finally the slaves and servants, who compared to some places were treated pretty well. Notice how as civilization became more complex in the ancient world as did hierarchy.

          
                Like we learned in Human Geography class, Geographical luck plays a huge part in all civilizations. Egypt was in the perfect location, right along the Nile River. The Nile was the main source of life in Ancient Egypt. The importance of the Nile was similar to how important the Tigris and Euphrates were to Mesopotamia. It was used for drinking water, irrigating crops, bathing, and transportation. After a while the Egyptians noticed that every July it flooded and every October it left behind rich soil. They used this discovery to their advantage by managing the river with technological breakthroughs in farming. The invention of sailboats was also very important because then the Egyptians had a way to transport trading goods down the Nile. The delta of the Nile is the broad marshy triangle area of fertile silt, so the Egyptians used it as a place to grow crops. So basically it is safe to say that without the Nile, Egypt would have never became a thriving civilization.