Ancient Egypt

In Egypt of course!

Egyptian pyramids are amongst the oldest stone buildings in the world. They were built nearly five thousand years ago. These ancient tombs are also among the world's largest structures. The biggest is taller than a 40-story building and covers the area occupied by Lincoln's Inn (about 13 acres; 5.3 hectares). Men built these huge structures without the help of equipment such as cranes and bulldozers. The ancient Egyptians used tools of copper, a softer metal than steel. Wooden wedges to help prise the stone from the quarry face and levers to help put the stones in place were also used in building the pyramids. Building a pyramid was dirty, difficult and dangerous work. It required meticulous planning and organization.

Two varieties of stone were used, limestone and granite. The limestone which made up the bulk of the pyramid was quarried locally. The granite had to be brought from the quarries at Aswan to where the pyramid was being built. They were transported on the Nile River in massive reed boats. The average weight of one of the pyramid's stone block is two and half tons. Some of the Aswan blocks, however, weighed up to 70 tons. To complete the Great Pyramid at Giza, one stone block was quarried, shaped and placed in position every two minutes for 20 years. It was this dangerous, hard and monotonous work that was done by slaves. This was an era of slave labour and none were more expert in directing their slaves than the ancient Egyptians. These slaves were naked to low in status to be given clothes.

In the minds of the Ancient Egyptians the pyramid form served a very serious purpose. Ancient Egyptians had a strong belief in life after death. The pharaohs wanted their bodies to last forever, so they had pyramids built to protect their bodies after death. Each pyramid housed a pharaoh's preserved body. It also held the goods he would need in his next life to continue living as he had when he was alive. Granite doors, false passages and fake burial chambers were built in an attempt to confuse and stop robbers from robbing the pyramids. In spite of these precautions, all pyramids were robbed of their treasures by around 1000 B.C.

Building plans showing how the pyramid was built have never been found, experts use present knowledge about construction to make some intelligent guesses. The Ancient Egyptians were an ingenious people. You cannot help to be impressed by the fearlessness the ancient builders exhibited in taking on such a colossal project.

The limestone blocks were cut out in the quarries close the pyramid site. Most of these blocks were roughly cut to size. Only where precision was needed were they dressed and trimmed by skilled masons to exacting standards. Once the limestone blocks quarried they were hauled on sledges along a causeway by gangs of slaves. Water was poured around the sledges to help them slide.

A spiralling ramp of mud, brick and rubble was used to haul the blocks to the level where building was going on. Once at the working level the blocks were man-handled off the sledges into position by levers and brute force by further gangs of slaves called setters. Once relieved of their load the hauliers would then make their weary way back down the ramp to start the whole process again.

A canal connected the pyramid site with the Nile. Here granite brought down from Aswan and fine limestone from Tura was unloaded. These were special stones that involved a lot of preparation in their quarrying, dressing and transportation. A vast amount of labour: of quarrymen, masons and of course slaves.

windows were high up to keep out the sunlight, the windows were in a rectangular shape and small, the windows were not made of glass but... linen!

There is the burial of the dead. I don't know any others.

Empires were important in 1914 because it was the start of WWI and all the countries involved wanted to have the biggest empire. It was also a bonus having the biggest empire because financially it was better. This is because they wanted to have the most money and this was done by lead/coal output etc

About 4.5 thousand years old.

No. Being mummified was very expensive in ancient Egypt. Only a privileged few people were mummified. These people would have been Pharaohs, priests or other really important people.

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Once the pharaoh has gone, Itennu and his fellow priests sit down to a lunch of pea and lentil soup, accompanied by fresh bread. Then it's time for an afternoon nap - chanting is surprisingly tiring work.

Nap over, it's back to work. He has to officiate at the funeral of a VIP. Because the man was an important courtier, he may be buried in the highly prestigious Valley of the Kings.

Itennu boards the funeral barge carrying the coffin. It sails across the Nile, is placed on a sled and is then pulled by two oxen to its new home. Itennu supervises the funeral arrangements. He then accompanies the coffin to the tomb, where he says his final prayers. The coffin is then sealed by the masons.

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Upper Egypt is in the South and Lower Egypt is the north. This is so because the Nile River flows south to north.

The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt were considered to gods and afforded absolute power. As a result, they used that power absolutely.

The Nile was like a highway because you could easily trade between upper and lower Egypt on the newly invented boats. It is also very fertile, allowing stops along the way. It was the best and fastest way to travel back then.

They protected the Pharaoh and the palace. They also kept the slaves in order

the first religion to teach monotheism was judaism of the hebrews and it later influenced chritianity and islam.

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In recorded history (i.e., that which we officially know to date), the most likely religion to first teach monotheism was Zoroastrianism, which predates Judaism. Like Christianity, Islam, and Judaism: a satanic figure, less powerful than the supreme deity, was and is also found in Zoroastrianism.

the Pharaoh set the Israelites free because his first and only son died ( he died in the tenth plague he was very upset.

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They believed it was important because they thought there was an underworld, and they needed their bodies to get to it. If their bodies were just buried to rot, their 'souls' wouldn't have anything to help them get to the underworld.

Ancient Egypt could not have existed without the river Nile. Since rainfall is almost non-existent in Egypt, the floods provided the only source of moisture to sustain crops. Every year, it would inundate (flood) the surrounding area, leaving a layer of fresh, fertile silt that was able to be used to make mud brick and to act as a fertilizer.

The Nile provided the Egyptians with a permanent water source and animals and fish to hunt and catch for food.

It could be traveled on both ways without any rowing because the current flowed the opposite way as the wind. It also gave the Egyptians a way to get to the Mediterranean sea through the Nile delta. Most cities were built either along or very close to the Nile because of these conveniences.

Also reeds, called papyrus, grew along side the Nile. The Egyptians made paper and boats from the reeds. They also used it for fishing and transport.

If you want to know, the answer is Mentuhotep II

Ancient Egyptians religion made medicine worse as there belifes on gods made it impossible to look on the practical side of thing.

The workers were Egyptian laborers. They are assumed by many people to have been slaves, but this is not necessarily true.

The kings for whom the tombs were constructed where pharaohs of the New Kingdom, of the 18th through 20th dynasties. There were also tombs of other powerful people of that age there.

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They had to sale the slaves from africa in order to get more gold and more food in order to survive