LO3 notes

• Egyptian civilization was more stable than that of Mesopotamia. 
• Usually there was no war, but occasionally there were times of trouble that called for invigorating trouble.
• the traditions of Egyptian civilizations became so strong that they flourished even in the last thousand years.
• The pallet was used for grinding makeup for divine images in in an upper Egyptian temple about 310 B.C
• These civilizations grew up in thin strips of fertile land when the Nile crosses the north African desert.
• The Egyptians, like other polytheistic peoples, recognized no hard- and- fast boundary between humans and gods.
• Pharaoh was to be obeyed as man given power by God's.
• Pharaoh was known as 3 people: sun- God Re, the king of all other God's and Goddess, and Horus. 
• Women close to the Pharaoh had a touch of divinity. 
• It was first believed that the Pharaoh was immortal.
• soul of every single deceased person had to come before Osiris, the ruler of the under world, for judgement.
• Hieroglyphs- the earliest Egyptian writing, comes from the Greek word sacred carvings. 
• 3100 B.C- became part of carvings and paintings intended to honor the Pharaohs. 
• The Egyptians were also knowledgeable in practical medicine. 
• Understood nothings of Germs and infections and believed that sickness was caused by demons entering the body. 
• One reason for their superiority of their medical techniques, no doubt, was the anatomical knowledge.
• They improved water transportation along the Nile due to the help of the sailboat they began making.
• Sailboats were made out of timber, a valuable source.
• There temples were by far their best area of excellence.
• about 2200 B.C a series of weak pharaohs allowed local officials to gain independent hereditary power.
• Egypt became a province of the empire of Persia, and it was finally ruled by the Greeks in 30 B.C, it was conquered by the Romans.