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Egypt
Egypt is a country located in the northeast of Africa. Egypt is well-known for its ancient history about the pharaohs, gods and goddesses and most importantly, its pyramids.
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What was the new kingdom in ancient Egypt?
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I am gladly here to answer your question. The correct answer would be from about 1550 to 1050 BC. The New Kingdom that is, that is how long it lasted. Thanks again and tune in soon!
Who was the person who brought together upper and lower Egypt?
Narmer brought Upper and Lower Egpt together.
Did Hatsheput join upper and lower Egypt?
No. That was Menes, also known as Ramses, Aha, or Scorpion.
When was Pharaoh Khafre born and when did he die?
Pharaoh Khafre was born in 678BC* and died on 786BC* he died when he was 123 years old. he is the oldest man alive. if he want pharoah he will be a old man living poorly on the streets asking for money how sad
*678BC...BC=Before Christ. NOT before common era. that is for people who are too stupid to figure that out.
What do farmers do during the flood season?
, I some what know the answer to your question that is being asked. I just studied it a couple of months ago, but barely do I remember. What I do remember is that, I think the 'King' or 'Pharaoh' tells them what to do. Such as, build houses or anything they are commanded.
How many people were mummified?
Not that many people were mummified.It was ONLY the Kings and People Who Had Many Riches the rest of the people like peasants and servants were buried under the sand. They were bruuied with all there riches this sould last them in the afterlife
What are some artifacts from ancient Egypt?
Some things were vases, and in some cases the vases held organs of beloved animals. There were also sarcophagus' and jewelry, clothing, old torches and not really an artifact but dead bodies. Silver and gold could have been found. Spices and preservatives were common as well.
What are facts about the geography of Egypt?
Be more specific, however, I can still help you. Consider the following:
1. WATER SYSTEM AND VEGETATION:
The Nile River was their "life" - it could give away life and take away life due to floods; the Nile River has 3 "seasons" which are Inundation and others, these 3 seasons have each of their own acts - during winter time, it is important to have the Nile for harvesting; during the summer and spring seasons, floods are very important since they can provide water and good water and soils for the crops to grow
2. TOPOGRAPHY (PHYISCAL FEATURES):
A second environmental/geographical factor is topography. Mountains, deserts were less friendly to human settlement. Due to natural features, the Egyptians were not attacked as much as other civilizations...why? Well because the invaders would have to travel harsh bitter desert winds of the Sahara and the protection of the Mediterranean Sea - however, unlike the Indian civilization, they were able to make fast trades with their neighbours: the Illyrians, the Macedonians, the Greeks, the Romans, and the Mesopotamian/Sumerians.
However, the Nile protected them of famine (see WATER SYSTEM AND VEGETATION). The deserts protected them but stopped transportation. Due to the Mediterranean Sea, they were provided with trades with other civilizations (see TOPOGRAPHY).
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What is the voting age in Cairo Egypt?
Judicial supervision of elections has its roots in Law 73/1956 Organizing the Exercise of Political Rights. [2] Law 73 codified the Nasserist ethos of popular participation, and as such is best remembered for extending the franchise to women for the first time, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 and abolishing a host of pre-1952 restrictions on voting and running for office.
See http://www.merip.org/mer/mer238/elghobashy.html#_edn2 for more information
Are Egyptians considered Caucasian?
Strictly speaking, a Caucasoid is someone whose ancestry comes from the stock of the Caucasus Mountains, typically the Indo-Europeans. These peoples include the Persians, Germans, Norse, Celts, etc. The Egyptians are Semitic, that is to say that they have Mediterranean coloration and are therefore not Caucasoids. See more below.
As concerns the predominant race in Egypt today, most Egyptians today have Mediterranean coloration. This coloration varies, but includes colors that might be mis-identified with a Southern German at their lightest and may be mis-indentified with Pakistani at their darkest. Nationalities with similar complexions include most Arabs, Southern Italians, Southern Spaniards, Turks, and other North Africans. Most of these groups are characterized as "White" by the United States Census Bureau, regardless of how others may see them.
How is the land of Nubia different from the land of Egypt?
The Nubia has tall cliffs of granite and rock, Egypt doesn't have the granite and rock cliffs.
What are some of the famous structures in Egypt?
Cairo Museum
great pyramids of Giza last of the 7 wonders of the world standing
Sphynx monument (pyramid complex)
Aswan high dam
Why were people mummified in Egypt?
They were mummified to be preserved. It is also in the Egyptians' belief that when they mummified them, and put items in their coffins, they would use them in the underworld where they went after they died. However, only rich families could afford mummification, it was highly expensive.
How do you say yes in ancient Egypt?
We know how it was written, but not how it was said.
In the ancient Egyptian language the word "yes" appears in hieroglyphs as tiw (where the i is not a vowel but a guttural consonant not found in English). We can never know how Egyptian words were pronounced, since vowels sounds were not written - although the Egyptians obviously knew what vowels to say.
What types of food do they have in ancient Egypt?
Although most Egyptians maintained a diet of beer and bread, many other items were fed to Egyptians. Also there was a lot of wine, beer, and bread making going on in Egypt. Fishing was also one of many things done to provide food. Lastly, eating traditions played a large role in ancient Egyptian lifestyle.
How would you feel if you ate bread and beer almost every meal and every day? This was one of Egypt's most common food combinations. Most of these items were made at home. Wine was also very popular in ancient Egypt. Oftentimes people ate salads much like us today. They put items like lettuce, cucumbers, scallions, peas, beans, and lentils in their salad. They also added many different spices to their salad. They used almond and sesame oil in a lot of their cooking. They also ate these items a lot to. People also ate a lot of dairy products like yogurt, cheese, and milk. These were the basic diets in ancient Egypt.
Fishing was done for a variety of reasons. It was done a lot because it was one of the gifts from the Nile. Fishing provided many families with a living. Some fish ate by Egyptians were carp, mullet, and perch. In fact a single mullet was worth an entire jar of beer. Wealthy families fished for sport. Much like our anglers today, noble men amused themselves using a rod and line. This was very different from the regular nets used by fishers that did it for a living. Poorer families were often the ones to eat fish. So people often fished for many reasons.
Farming was a very large industry in ancient Egypt. The most important crops were wheat and barley. These were the items used in making the basic Egyptian diet: bread and beer. Also important crops were papyrus for writing sheets and flax for linen. Beans, lentils, and many vegetables were also grown in Egypt. The richer you were the more of a variety of food you had to choose from. Farmers often sold their crops to government run stores in cities like Memphis. So that is a little taste of farming in ancient Egypt.
Many Egyptians ate meat. Wealthy Egyptians were also able to afford meats like lamb, venison, goat, beef, pork, duck, geese, quail and even pigeons. Butchering animals was an important process. To butcher an animal you would first tie its legs together. Then pull it to the side and kill it. So that is the meats of Egypt.
Making beer, wine, and bread were important processes. To make bread you would grind wheat up with a stone. Then add water to make dough. When you had shaped it into loaf form you would bake it. When it was only half finished you would crumple some of it into a jar with water. After sealing the jar you would have to wait for it to ferment, or for it to have a chemical change into alcohol. Once this was done you'd drink it as beer. Lastly wine was made by filling a container or crate with grapes. Then you'd step in them to make a juice. Then this would ferment and become wine. So that is how to make beer, bread, and wine.
Lastly I will inform you of some eating traditions of ancient Egypt. Wealthy Egyptians would have servants serve courses one by one. Egyptians ate with their fingers. They would rinse them between courses in bowls with water in them. Egyptians sat on low chairs or mats. They also ate on low tables. In conclusion Egyptians had many diverse eating traditions.
So in conclusion most Egyptians maintained a diet of beer and bread, but still many other items were fed to Egyptians. There was a lot of wine, beer, and bread making going on in Egypt.
Fishing was also one of many things done to provide food. Lastly Eating traditions played a large role in ancient Egyptian lifestyle.
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Were the ancient egyptians black?
This is a difficult question to answer because of the controversial nature of the subject of race. Biological definitions of race and social definitions of race are often not consistent. Also unfortunately there has been a history of racist ideas in Western academia that were often fixated on separating Egypt culturally and biologically from the rest of the African continent. However mainstream, modern scholarship has advanced to the point where there are academically honest experts who can give us some answers. It has been suggested by at least one prominent Biological Anthropologist that in terms of skin color the typical modern Upper Egyptian to Nubian color would have been the model in most of the country (see the research of Shomarka Keita on Ancient Egyptian biological affinities). That would imply a range in skin color on average from medium to dark brown.
A recent study which performed a histological analysis of the skin on Ancient Egyptian noble mummies from Upper Egypt found it to be, "packed with melanin as expected for specimens of Negroid origin" (see Mekota and Vermehren 2004). Skeletal remains of the Ancient Egyptians have been studied for many years. Their limb proportions have been determined to be tropical suggesting that the ancestors of the Ancient Egyptians migrated from the tropics upon settling the Nile Valley (see Zakrzewski 2004).
Predynastic Egyptian crania at the time of state formation cluster with Northeastern Nilotic, Northwestern Saharan and tropical East Africans (see Keita 1993). There seems to have been a change in craniometric patterns in later periods as Late Dynastic Northern Egyptians have centroid values between African and European series. DNA analysis of 12th Dynasty mummies reveal that they have multiple lines of descent including from Sub-Saharan Africa (see Paabo and Di Rienzo 1993). The other lineages were not identified.
Archeological and Linguistic research indicates that the Ancient Egyptians were indigenous to the continent of Africa (see Hassan 1988 and Ehret 1996). Art objects are not considered to be useful by Biological Anthropologists because they are suspect as data and interpretations are highly dependent on stereotyped thinking but some scholars have noted that much of the Dynastic statuary have variations on the narrow nosed, narrow faced East African facial morphology. By taking a multidisciplinary approach several modern scholars have come to the conclusion that the Ancient Egyptians were an indigenous Northeast African people who were tropically adapted and shared biological affinities with their more Southerly African neighbors.
This is in reference to the early Ancient Egyptians as over time Egypt gradually absorbed foreigners from the Near East and Europe which became a recurring phenomenon after the series of invasions following the New Kingdom period. Immigration was especially significant during the Greco-Roman and Islamic periods of Egyptian history.
So ancient Egypt was indeed an indigenous African civilization and its people looked like modern Northeast Africans like those in modern Upper Egypt, Northern Sudan and the Horn of Africa. If you consider your average Upper Egyptian, Nubian, Eritrean or Somali to be Black then yes by your definition they were Black. But bare in mind that native Africans have a range of physical characteristics. They don't all have one particular phenotype. There was variation within the Nile Valley during the Dynastic period as there is in Northeast Africa today.
What did the ancient egyptians do for sports and recreation?
Ancient Egyptians would play a game called senit. They leaders would host big parties with singers, dancers, and lots of food. They aslo hunted and fished. That's all i can think of. Hope i helped.
What is Egypts population now?
One to two million, increasing at the end of the Old Kingdom's dynasties.
Why did lower Egypt and upper Egypt combine?
Egypt never split, it actually combined. Pre-dynasty Egypt had many many tribes fighting for dominance. Eventually only two tribes were left. The tribe in Upper Egypt and the tribe in Lower Egypt. Around 3050 BC, a king called Narmer (or Menes) united all of Egypt into one country and proclaimed himself pharaoh.
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Why was Alexandria Egypt important during the Hellenistic period?
It was the Largest city in the Mediterranean region by the 1st century B.C.
Alexandria, Egypt- Center of the Hellenistic culture, adopted many Greek patterns and customs, Consisted of Egyptian, Persian and Indian cultures, Koine (a dialect of Greece) was the neutral language, Housed the Library at Alexandria which also incorporated the museum, center of trade via water, population exceeded half a million people,( place for scientists, mathematicians, Astronomers, and artists)
What is the full name for egypt?
The complete name for Egypt is the Arab Republic of Egypt. There is no other name for the country.
Why did ancient Egyptian bread make the peoples teeth fall out?
Ancient Egyptian bread made their teeth fall out because of how coarse the bread was.
