Western Civ 2/4/20

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Today in class we took notes on ancient Egypt, before we did that the people that were absent took their quiz, while we studied and did work for another class. My notes for the powerpoint are here. 


-Maat is the harmony and balance in the universe.
-The Nile was the major provider of life for the Egyptians
-isfet is the opposite of Maat.
-Upper Egypt was a 500 mile long strip of fertile land along the nile
-all souls would need to justify themselves at the point of death and either sent to an after-world paradise, or the jaws of a monster
 -Women could inherit money and land and divorce their husband
-pharaoh was all powerful, worshipped as a god, and intimately connected to the other major Egyptian gods and goddesses
-gods were often portrayed as being people with animal heads or bodies
-egyptians believed in after-life (ka) and they mummified bodies to preserve them for this past-death journey

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