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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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Who was the second youngest pharaoh in ancient Egypt?
the answer is the second pharoh is king tut he was a king and a pharoh
What kind of clocks did ancient Egyptian people have?
They would have used waterclocks. Basically a large urn with lines running down denoting minutes/hours and a pinprick hole in the bottom to release the water. so if the water was refilled in midday the lines would tell the Egyptian how many hours past midday it was.
How do you say Anubis in Egyptian?
Anubis is the Greek version of the god's name - in ancient Egyptian the word was written 'inpw (the 'i is a consonant) and we can only guess at the missing vowels.
The first character is a reed, the second a horizontal zig-zag line, the third a small rectangle and the final character a chick. The determinative at the end is a dog-like animal lying on a tomb.
One of the titles of Anubis is nb t3 djsr, lord of the sacred land.
What was Cleopatra's responsibilities?
She governed Egypt and was responsible for constructions, food, wages, etc
How did ancient Egypt slaves become slaves?
Many people became slaves through debt or through poverty sold themselves into slavery. A debt slave would be released from slavery once the debt was considered paid.
Some slaves were acquired through trade and slave raids especially into Nubia (modern Sudan).
Slaves could also be prisoners of war. This category expanded in numbers during the period of imperial expansion in the New Kingdom.
How did the ancient Egyptians make fires?
The fire drill was a very simple technology known almost everywhere in ancient times. It is closely related to the drill used in making furniture, jewellery and boats and it used the principle that a piece of hardwood, when pressed firmly and rotated against a piece of softwood, generates heat by friction.
The fire drill uses a flat piece of softwood with a small groove and hollow, into which the hardwood drill is placed vertically. The drill is rotated by means of a "bow" - a short stick with a cord which is wrapped twice around the drill. Downward pressure on the drill is also required.
The drill does not produce flame or sparks, but hot embers from the softwood, charred by friction - these can then be used to start a fire.
The first link below includes images of an ancient Egyptian fire drill (ignore the modern magnifying glass at the top of the page). The second link gives examples of many tools used in ancient Egypt, including the fire drill:
Why did they cover the mummies body with natron?
It is used to take moisture from the body without it drying out and
An ancient scribe in the Dark Ages would typically be a holy monk. He would spend hours copying by hand books like the Bible, historical documents, and quite often would memorize large parts of books so they could be copied faster.
If he messed up, he started the page over. Many only would use one side of a page because they feared starting over because of a mistake.
In any other ancient time or place, they did copy books sometimes, but usually were servants who wrote down what the master said, recorded legal trials, or were sent to study a subject and bring back a report for someone who wanted to learn it.
Why did the sailors use the stars in ancient times?
In the northern hemisphere, the North Star (Polaris) is constant. Other stars are known to rise and fall at certain times of the year.
It is my understanding that the Southern Cross is a constant constellation (non-moving) in the southern hemisphere, but I do not know that to be a fact.
King of the kush empire who conquered Egypt in 750 bc?
The Kushite King Piye conquered Egypt in 750 BC.
How did people become wealthy in California besides mining for gold?
Some people during the Gold Rush had to sell everything they owner, in order to pay for transportation to California. In addition, merchants made lots of money from the gold rush; they sold everyday goods for a more expensive price. For example, a steamboat operator could make up to $40,000 in a month, just by helping people travel to California.
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How do you write Sara in hieroglyphics?
Hieroglyphs did not write any vowel sounds (despite what some modern web pages claim). Naturally the ancient Egyptians knew how to say their words with the vowels included, but only the consonant sounds were written.
So in hieroglyphs you write srh, but you say Sarah. The direction of writing was normally right to left, but sometimes left to right; signs were always arranged neatly to fit inside an invisible rectangle or square.
There were several signs with the value s, but we shall use the "door-bolt" sign because it is long and thin (to fit neatly with the next sign). This is a horizontal line, thickening slightly at each end and with two very short vertical lines crossing it in the middle.
The sound r was represented by the mouth-sign, viewed from the front; this was simply two curved lines meeting at each end. We place this directly under the s.
The sign for h is the plan of a reed shelter, looking a bit like a spiral but made of 5 straight lines, starting with a downward stroke. This is paced on the left of the first two signs because we are reading from right to left. It is drawn almost as tall as the first two signs put together.
Last, to indicate that this is the name of a person, we draw the kneeling woman sign on the left of the others - she must face towards the right (towards the start of the line of writing). This sign is the same height as the first two signs put together, so the finished word looks neat and fits inside that invisible rectangle.
What pyriamids did the great sphinx guard?
the other answer was messed up, so here is the real one. the sphinx is supposed to be a lion with the head of a man/pharaoh. its reason of making was to guard every pyramid. its nose is missing because some say Napoleon and his men used the sphinx's nose for target practice.
Who made up the English language?
The English language was not made up. It evolved naturally over thousands of years from older languages.
Why were things buried with the mummy?
stuff was buried with the mummy because they believed in a afterlife. they believed that if you died you were reborn into a new life and they wanted the "mummy to have stuff to take with him/her so the put it in his/her tomb they said it would give the gold, riches, food, etc.
he had a dream of 7 thin cows eating 7 fat cows; which means they will suffer 7 years of famine and then 7 years of good harvest.
Why did the people of Ancient Egypt settle in Egypt?
Nomads settled in Egypt because of the rich fertile soil, caused by the annual floods of the Nile River. It was also easily protected, not easily invaded.
Settlers arrived in the southern portion of the Nile delta some 6-7 thousand years ago, approximately 4500 B.C. It is assumed that these were nomadic tribes, similar to the Bedouin, that had wandered for miles seeking fertile land. The Nile, not only a provider of water and food, but also a means of transportation, instantly became a haven for all desert tribes in the area. Its rich resources were the foundation of an ancient religion and a powerful empire.
Egypt was composed of two kingdoms, Upper and Lower Egypt. Upper Egypt's pharaoh wore the White Crown while Lower Egypt's pharaoh wore the red. After the unification of the two kingdoms, the crowns were joined as one, and all depictions after this period show not only the pharaohs but also the gods such as Osiris and Anubis wearing the combined crown.
Ancient Egypt's pharaoh held his capitol in Thebes, the ancient name for Luxor. Modern Egypt's capitol is Cairo, approximately 500 miles north of Luxor situated near the Nile Delta and the Giza Plateau, where the pyramids are.
Because they could grow their crops with the Nile River's help, and because they were able to built canals and boats there.
What is now called Egypt was founded as a colony by Nubians, led by Asar, Egypt's first ruler, whom the ancient Greeks later called Osiris. After death he was deified and became a god. He was part of the history's first holy trinity featuring Aset and Heru, whom the Ancient Greeks later called Isis and Horus. Exploration was the reason these Nubians settled in what is now Egypt.
In what year was the step pyramid of Djoser built in?
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Where was the great pyramid built in Egypt?
If you mean the Great Pyramids of Giza, they are located in El Giza, Egypt.
Why does queen Nefertiti only has one eye?
some theores say that she had lost contact in her eye and it stopped working properly but someone else answered that she was being to flirtaitious but no offence but who ever answerd it like that is stupid how can lose an eye from bieng to flirtaitious?
Why did the ancient egyptians call the land kemet?
The Nile would flood every year leaving dark soil, therefore they called it Kemet,the black land :)
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