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Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt started around 3150 BC. It is a time known marked by pharaohs, pyramids, gods and goddesses, science, math,and art. This era ended when Egypt was conquered by the Roman empire in 31 BC.
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Where there any buildings built while Cleopatra was pharaoh?
The only building that was built when Cleopatra ruled was the temple to Julius Caesar. She started to build her own tomb, but it was unfinished at her death.
Is the elevation of the land higher in Upper Egypt or in Lower Egypt?
The upper kindom is located in the south of Egypt and the lower kindom north. This is because the Nile flows north.
over time the macedonians invaded and conqered egypt.
Which kingdom was first to include both upper and lower Egypt?
The "Two Kingdoms" of Upper and Lower Egypt were united around 3000 BC, under the rule of the pharaoh called Menes (alternatively Narmer), the founder of the First Dynasty.
Upper (southern) Egypt was later ruled by the Hyksos and the Kingdom of Kush. The greatest extent of Egypt's empire occurred in the 18th Dynasty, beginning around 1550 BC with pharaoh Ahmose I.
How did the pyramids impact of the daily lives of the Ancient Egyptians?
Thieves broke into pyramids to steal anything of value. The builders of Cairo took away the beautiful outer casings of stone, in order to build a beautiful city. Now the pyramid inner stones left exposed are deteriorating rapidly over time.
What are all the names of all the pyramids?
The 138 pyramids in Egypt don't exactly have names. They were intended to be the tombs of the kings who build them. However in popular culture they are often named after the kings who built them. Some are also 'named' because of their unique characteristics. Examples are The Step Pyramid, The Bent Pyramid and The Red Pyramid. The pyramids at Giza are probably the best known in the world, and they are the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure. Khufu's, The Great Pyramid, is the largest Egyptian pyramid. In this famous grouping Khafre's is next in size followed by Menkaure's. Khafre was the son of Khufu, and Menkaure was the son of Menkaure. The Red Pyramid of Shofru is believed to be the first successful smooth sided pyramid, and it also has most of its original smooth finishing stonework. Saying that it was the first successful smooth sided pyramid reflects the fact that it was designed and built to be smooth sided right from the beginning; it was not build like The Step Pyramid, layered mastabas, where the resulting steps were filled in afterwards.
Why were the Pharaoh's tombs so significant in Ancient Egypt?
The ancient Egyptians strongly believe in an afterlife; much of their time on Earth was spent preparing it. They believed that what ever was placed in the tombs with them after they die would be with them in this other life. Gold, jewellery, food, games, tools/weapons, furniture and other miscellaneous items were believed to be essential in the afterlife.
How long did Amenhotep III rule?
i dunno i just wante to write some thing although i could tell u bout his son Amenhotep IV
Who worked the buildings of the pyramids?
Scribes, masons, quarrymen, carpenters, blacksmiths, soldiers and thousands of slaves
How many rows of stone make up the pyramid?
The Great Pyramid has approximately 2.3 million stones weighing anything up to 70 tons.
It is estimated to have contained 2.3 million blocks of stone. Its volume is roughly 2.5 million cubic meters.
About 2.3 million. These stones ranged in weight from about 2 tons to 70 tons
What is the difference between ancient Egypt and Egypt?
The simple answer is that it doesn't. However, modern Britain has little in common with ancient Britain either. Of course, both countries claim their respective lands' treasures such as the Sphinx (Egypt) or Stonehenge (Britain). If we contrast Britain with Egypt, the ancient word for a bird trap in Egypt, or skeet, is also the word used in England to describe a clay pigeon shooting range. The English word "south" is the same in ancient Egyptian - sut or sud. Such things are perhaps rare but they do show that ancient Egypt had connections with ancient Britain as the modern nations do. In fact, a century ago, Britain ruled or administered Egypt.
So the answer is not so simple. It might therefore be easier to look at some aspects of modern Egypt that ancient Egypt did not have.
Perhaps the most obvious contrast to compare is the religion of ancient and modern Egypt. Today, Islam, and to a lesser extent some Christianity, is the religion of Egypt. But Islam has only been significant in Egypt for 1400 years since Mohammad. Some Muslims will say that "Islam" means "righteous" so that many Egyptians well before Mohammad were also "righteous" and therefore Islamic. Does that mean the people who worshipped the many gods of ancient Egypt were "righteous"? In ancient Egypt, the sun god Ra was popular but across the Red Sea in Arabia, the moon was a god. That is because the Arabs lived their working lives at night to avoid the heat of the day so they worshipped the moon. But in Egypt, with its mighty river and cool shading trees, the sun was far less harsh and dramatic and much more popular as an object of reverence. Today, the moon is the main symbol on the flags of Muslim countries (but not Egypt's).
Egypt today probably has a much larger proportion of people who are not religious at all as their somewhat neutral flag suggests. The popular uprisings in Egypt stem from the problems of competing philosophical and religious ideas. This is something ancient and modern Egypt probably share.
One of the great philosophical questions facing the Egyptians of 586 BC was the total routing, sacking, razing and near-total depopulation of ancient Israel by Nebuchadnezzar the Chaldean-Babylonian. Many people at the time believed the Seed of the Woman Programme, first announced in the Bible when Adam and Eve received God's prophecy of the outcome of their disobedience in the Garden of Eden, had been abandoned after Israel's demise in 586 BC. The Egyptian king at the time, Merneptah Baenre Meriamun Hotephirmaat, or Pharaoh Hophra of Jeremiah 44:30 in the Bible, recorded on a stone stele, "Israel's Seed is destroyed (or castrated); the Land razed (or shaved) to the ground". After Jesus of Nazareth was born (7-6 BC), many Egyptians repented and believed again in the Promise of the Seed after Jesus' resurrection (30 AD). Thus much of Egypt became Christian between 30-650 AD. Then the Muslims conquered Egypt resulting in many Egyptians turning to Islam because of the corruption in the state church systems of the time. Mohammad's reforms were often preferred over his revised theology. A parallel thing happened after Luther in Europe (1600 AD). But problems do not just exist in religions. The academics in the universities believe Merneptah ruled Egypt in 1210 BC when he was supposed to have written the "Israel" or "Merneptah Stele". This contributor understands the Merneptah Stele is now on prominent display in the Cairo Museum in a similar fashion to the Rosetta Stone in the British Museum near the main entrance (although we stand to be corrected regarding the Cairo museum).
However, that is perhaps the most interesting comparison between ancient and modern Egypt - their policy and attitude towards Israel their neighbour across (as Australians and New Zealanders say) "the ditch" (Reed Sea, Red Sea, Suez Canal). Israel and Egypt, such close neighbours, their histories so closely entwined, according to the Bible. Yet modern historians say the "Merneptah Stele" is the "only" or "first" reference in ancient Egyptian literature to the Jewish nation whose history is so carefully outlined in the Bible. In modern Egypt, Israel is in the news lots of times. Apparently, according to Egyptologists and historians, the opposite was the case. And there lies a big tale. By not knowing what Egypt's history really was, as that conundrum must surely attest, it is almost impossible to answer this question. But it is an important question and if the answer were properly and thoroughly canvassed we might actually learn something. Probably, many people will be rather shocked to say the least.
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Why is southern Egypt called upper Egypt and northern Egypt as lower Egypt?
Upper Egypt is lower and Lower Egypt is higher because the Nile flows from South to North. The reason for this is because the mountains at upper Egypt, which is at the bottom are tilted and it flows to lower Egypt which is at the top.
What type of clothes did the farmer wear in Egypt?
Most soldiers wore a simple linen kilt like most ordinary Egyptians. They carried a spear or a sword often with a long hide shield.
When and how did Egypt's new kingdom end?
Egypt was absorbed into the Roman Empire in 30 B.C.E. with the death of Cleopatra.
Who is credited with building the Great Pyramid?
the 4th dynasty pharaoh Khufu who reigned 2589-66BC. Not that he did the work himself he had thousands of slaves to do that.
What were the main features in ancient Egyptian art?
There were a lot of plants and animals as well as the people in the artwor being shown in odd positions because the ancient Egyptians had not mastered correct perspective in their art yet.
Why did the build the great sphinx of Giza?
The pyramids of Giza were built as a housing for the remains of wealthy and powerful Egyptians of that historical period. Egyptian funeral practices were wildly extravagant.
Steve Martin composed and performed a very lovely song on this topic, called "King Tut".
How many limestone blocks did the great pyramid need?
Most modern sources estimate that there are 2.3 million blocks most of them limestone weighing on average 2.5 tons (2,545kg). The limestone blocks were cut from quarries located close to the pyramid site.
How tall is the Great Pyramid of Giza in inches?
It is difficult to give an exact answer because the edge of the pyramid is eroded.
The original size along the bottom was probably 356.2566 sacred cubits -- a cubit for each day in the year. A sacred cubit is 25.0265 modern inches. That comes to 9141 modern inches.
There is a further problem, namely the bottom edges of the pyramid are not precisely straight, but bowed slightly upward, so it matters whether you measure along the edge or "as the crow flies" from corner to corner. Some say that these lengths are in the same proportion as the tropical, siderial, and anomalistic year.
You see a lot of very precise numbers in this business, but I doubt that the dimensions are known to better than an inch. Despite the uncertainty, I am convinced that when they built the pyramid the ancients were bragging about their knowledge of astronomy.
How do you build a model pyramid out of cardboard?
make a square base, and 4 triangles of certain lengths so that all spaces are covered and also make sure that the triangles have the same angles in every corner.
