ALL ABOUNT THE EMERGENCE AND DISCOVERY OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIONS
SO MANY PEOPLE ASK THAT WHAT WAS THE HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIONS
SO HERE ARE THE ANSWERS:
1:EMERGECE AND THE SUPPORT OF THE NILE:
DURING THE 3500BCE A NEW CIVILIZATION KNOWN AS THE ANCIENT EGYPTIONS EMERGED ALONG THE BANKS OF RIVER NILE IN NORTH EAST AFRICA .THESE PEOPLE WERE POLYTHIESTS AND BELIVED IN MANY GODS AND GODESSES.THE MAJOR REASON OF THE THRIVE OF THE ANCIENT EGYPT WAS THE SUPPORT OF RIVER NILE AS THE EGYPTIONS COULD EASILY ACCESS TO WATER.THE EGYPTIONS STARTED AGRICULTURE AS IT WAS IDEAL ON THE ALLUVIAL SOILS PROVIDED BY THE RIVER NILE.THE EGYPTIONS FOR FOOD MOSTLY HUNTED THE ANIMALS THAT CAME TO DRINK WATER FROM THE RIVER NILE AND THE EGYPTIONS ALSO WERE GOOD FISHERMAN.THE ANCIENT EGYPTION WERE CUT OFF FROM THE REST OFF THE WORLD BECAUSE OF THE LONG AND NARROW VALEYS AND DESERTS.
2:DISCOVERY:
IN 1798,A FRENCH GENERAL NAPOLEAN BANOPARTE LEAD A MILITARY CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE BRITISH IN EGYPT.HE TOOK MANY ARTISTS WITH HIM SO THAT THEY COULD COPY THE IMAGES OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF EGYPT AS RECORD.HE ALSO TOOK 160 SCIENTISTS WITH HIM,WHO HAD TO STUDY ABOUT THE LAND OF EGYPT.BANOPARTE ALSO BOUGHT ENGINEERS WITH HIM AS HE KNEW THE ROADS WOULD NOT BE WELL SHAPED OR MANTAINED.DURING THE RESEARCH THE FRENCH SOLDIERS FOUND A 114CM LONG AND 72CM WIDE ROCK MADE OF BLACK GRANITE ON WHICH GREEK AND EGYPTION WAS WRITTEN.THE ROCK WAS NAMED AS ROSETTA STONE,NAMED AFTER THE PLACE IT WAS FOUND.
THE ROSETTA STONE
3:RELIGION:
THE ANCIENT EGYPTIONS WERE POLYTHIESTS AND BELIEVED IN MANY GOD WHO WERE ASSUMED TO HAVE UNIQUE POWERS.PHARAOHS BELIEVED THEMSELVES AS GODS.THE EGYPTIONS HAD A FIRM BELIEF IN THE LIFE AFTER DEATH.FORMAL RELIGIOUS PRACTICE CENTERED ON THE PHARAOH,WHO WAS BELIEVED TO BE DIVINE SUSTAINED THE GODS SO THEY COULD MANTAIN ORDER IN THE
UNIVERSE.THE DECEASED KINGS WERE BURIED IN THE TOMBS AND TEMPLES BUILT BY THEIR SUBJECTS.
AGRICULTURE:
AGRICULTURE WAS IDEAL FOR THE ANCIENT EGYPTIONS BECAUSE THE RIVER NILE PROVIDED THEM WITH ALLUVIAL SOIL AND FERTILE LAND.NEARLY ALL EGYPTIONS PRACTICED AGRICULTURE AND ALSO EGYPTIONS GREW ALL KINDS OF CROPS.IN THE CEREALS CATEGORY THE EGYPTIONS GREW WHEAT AND BARLEY BUT ONLY ONCE A YEAR.THEN EGYPTIONS GREW FIGS,DATED AND GRAPES FOR FRUIT AND GREW PEAS,ONIONS,GARLIC AND GABBAGE FOR VEGGIES.THE EGYPTIONS STORED THE SURPLUS SO THAT THE POPULATION COULD SURVIVR A BAD HARVEST.THE EGYPTIONS ALSO EXPORTED ITS GOODS TO OTHER CIVILAIZATIONS AND THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS IT BECAME A WEALTHY CIVILIZATION.THE BIGGEST EXPORT OF THE EGYPTION CIVILIZATION WAS PAPYRUS WHICH WAS PRODUCED BY EGYPT AND USED TO MAKE MATS,ROPESS AND SANDLES ETC.
SOCIETY:
THE STRUCTURE OF THE ANCIENT EGYPT WAS SHAPED LIKE A PYRAMID. THE EGYPTION SOCIETY WAS RULED BY THE PHARAOH/KING..THEN FOLLOWED THE PRIESTS AND NOBLES WHO WERE THE REPRESANTATIVES OF THE PHARAOH AND ALSO REPRESENTED HIM IN THE LAW COURTS.. THE NOBLES WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR TAXATION,IRRIGATION SYSTEMS,AND SUPERVISED AGRICULTURE.THEN CAME THE SOLDIERS AND THE OFFICERS.THEN FOLLOWED SCRIBES WHO WERE RESPECTED CUZ THEY COULD READ AND WRITE.TEMPLE PRIESTS WERE HONOURABLE CITIZENS.THEN CAME THE CRAFTSMEN WHO HAD A VERY LOW PLACE IN THE SOCIETY.THEN CAME THE LOWEST CAST PERSONS WHO GREW FOOD AND ALSO WORKED AS LABOURERS.
THESE LABOURERS FORMED THE BIGGEST GROUP AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PYRAMIDS.THE WOMEN IN THE EGYPTION SOCIETY WERE ABLE TO POSSES THEIR PROPERTY BUT WERE NOT ALLOWED TO INTERFARE IN GOVERNMENT BUISNESS.
WRITING:
ANCIENT EGYPTIONS USED PICTURE WRITING KNOWN AS HIEROGLYPHS.THERE WERE 700 HIEROGLYPHS AND ALL RULES OF THE GOVERNMENT ALSO THE HISTORICAL RECORDS WERE ETCHED ON THE WALLS OF TOMBS AND MONUMENTS BY SCRIBES.THE ART OF WRITING WAS TRANSFERRED FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE ANOTHER GENERATION.
ANCIENT EGYPTION KINGDOMS:
THE HISTORY OF EGYPT IS DIVIDED INTO 3 ERAS:
THE OLD KINGDOM:
THIS ERA WAS AN ERA OF EXCESSIVE INDULGENCE FOR THE PHARAOHS AND THE NOBLES.IN THIS ERA BECUZ OF A HUGE POPULATION WHICH PAID HUGE TAXES
A CIVIL STARTED WAR CUZ THEY HAD VERY MINIMAL RIGHTS.
THE MIDDLE KINGDOM:
THIS ERA IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE EGYPTION KINGDOM.IN THIS TIME PERIOD EGYPT FACED ALOT LOF FOREIGN CULTURAL EXCHANGE AND TRADE FROM THE ASIATIC REGIONS.
THE NEW KINGDOM:
IN THIS TIME PERIOD,EGYPT FACED ALOT OF FOREIGN INFLUENCE AND EXCHANGE AND EXPANDED ALOT THROUGH THE WORLD.THE FAMOUS BOY KING TUTANKHAMUN ALSO RULED DURING THIS PERIOD.
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THE PROCESS OF MUMMIFICATION:
THE ANCIENT EGYPTIONS DID NOT BURY THE DEADS OF THE SUPERIOR CLASS,RATHER THEIR BODIES WERE PRESERVED IN PYRAMIDS.THE PROCESS OF PRESERVING THE BODIES CALLED MUMMIFICATION.IT TAKES 70 DAYS TO PREPARE THE BODY FOR THE FINAL STAGE AND AFTER THAT THE BODY IS PRESERVED FOR THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
THE PYRAMIDS AND THE SPHINX:
THE TALL TRIANGULAR MONUMENTS IN EGYPT ARE CALLED PYRAMIDS.PYRAMIDS WERE BASICALLY THE TOMBS OF THE PHARAOHS AND THE PHARAOHS WERE ALSO BURIED IN THESE TOMBS.THE BIGGEST PYRAMID IN EGYPT IS THE PYRAMID OF KHUFU.AND THE SPHINX IS A MYTHICAL CREATURE THAT IS BELIEVED TO BE THE GUARDIAN OF THE PYRAMIDSTHE SPHINX IS MADE OF A LION'S HEAD AND A HUMAN BODY.THE PYRAMIDS AND THE SPHINX ARE ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD.
THE REASONS FOR THE DECLINE OF THE EGYPTION CIVILIZATION:
THERE ARE MANY REASONS THAT COULD HAVE CAUSED THE DECLINE OF THE EGYPTION CIVILIZATION:
* LOSS OF MILITARY POWER:
*EGYPT DID NOT HAVE METALS AND OTHER IRONS FOR PRODUCING WESPONDS FOR WAR.SO IT HAD TO IMPORT IT FROM OTHER CIVILIZATIONS WHICH WAS VERY COSTLY AND TIME CONSUMING SO IN WAR TIMES MANY TRADE ROUTES WERE CLOSED AND EGYPT FOUND IT TOUGH TO PROTECT ITSELF.
*CLIMATE CHANGE:
THE MOST IMPORTANT REASON WAS THE FLOODING OF THE RIVER NILE AS IT DESTROYED CROPS AND DID LOSS TO THE PROPERTY.IT IS ALSO SAID THAT THE RIVER NILE CHANGED ITS WAY AND THE EGYPTIONS STRUGGLED FOR WATER AND AGRICULTURE.
*ECONOMIC DECLINE:
THE ECONOMIC IS A BIG REASON FOR THE DECLINE OF THE GREAT EGYPTION EMPIRE.WITH THE HIGH COST OF THE WARS AND CONTINOUS BAD HARVEST CIVIL UNREST AND FAMINE STARTED.DUE TO THIS EGYPT STARTED TO LOSS ITS STATUS AND ENDED ONE DAY:
*SUMMARY:
THE CONCLUSION IS SIMPLE SAYING THAT THE EGYPTION CIVILIZATION WAS A GREAT
GREAT CIVILIZATION OF ITS TIME AND HAD MOST OF ITS OWN CULTURE AND TRADITIONS.EGYPTIONS WERE POLYTHIESTIC PEOPLE WHO WERE RULED BY A PHARAOH.
THE EGYPTIONS HAD THE SUPPORT OF THE GREAT RIVER NILE WHICH WAS A MAJOR FACTOR FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE EGYPTION CIVILIZATION.THE EGYPTIONS PRODUCED PAPYRUS WHICH WAS A GREAT INVENSION HELPING THE WHOLE WORLD CUZ BY PAPYRUS YOU COULD MAKE SANDALS MATS AND ROPES ETC.THE EGYPTIONS BUILT THE PYRAMIDS AND THE SPHINX WHICH WERE THE TEMPLES OF THE PHARAOHS OF THAT TIME AND ALSO THEIR TOMBS.THE EGYPTION ERA IS DISTRUBIUTED INTO 3 AGES AND THEIR DECLINE WAS CAUSED BY MANY REASONS LIKE ECONOMIC FALL,LOSS OF MILITARY POWER AND CLIMATE CHANGES.
NOW TELL US ABOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THESE GREAT EGYPTIONS AND ALSO COMPLIMENT IN THE COMMENT SECTION!!!
EASY.THE EGYPTIONS WERE POLYTHIESTIC PEOPLE RULED BY THE PHARAOH.THE PYRAMID S
WRITING:
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