Mummification

Friday in West. Civ we took more notes on the PowerPoint. We learned about Egypt and how it is stretched along the Nile in the Fertile Crescent. The Nile is the main source of life in this civilization. We also learned about the pharaohs of Egypt and how people worshiped them as part man/ part god. They thought the pharaohs had some kind of connection with the gods and they could communicate to them. Women had more rights than in most countries. They could run businesses, divorce spouses, and even own land. There were a few women who had even became pharaohs. They were still treated as second class citizens though. Through all this civilization, early man developed a way of writing, farming, and even how to tell time. They made the first calendar. After the power point Mr. Schick should us a video about mummification. Mummification is when you preserve a pharaoh’s body for the afterlife. You like remove all the organs and place them into a jar, and other stuff. It gets kind of gross.