Ancient Egypt: Geography, Society, Religion, Temples, Tombs, Architecture and Art

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The river mile The mile was very important because Egyptians could use it for transporting things or persons, farming, fishing, and a lot more things. There are also 3 important stages of the river mile that are: Floods: all the water from the mountains flows down and causes the mile to flood. (June-September) Sowing: The river goes back to normal and the Egyptians planted seeds on the fertile layer. (Starting October) Harvesting: They recollected all the grown food from the plants. (February-June) Stages in development in Egyptian society: - They controlled the water - A rise of agriculture - Population growth - Increase trade - Writing # Writing - Cuneiform writing. Mesopotamia Pictograms are pictures that represent concepts. They were simplified and replaced by signs representing probetic syllables. They wrote by making incisions with a read stem on wet rhy tablets. Uses: tax collection and legal codes. - Hieroglyphic writing - Egypt Pictograms with represented concepts were inscribed on stone, walls and papyrus, by scribes. ## The UNIFICATION of Egypt - Egypt was divided in 2 parts upper and lower egypt. The upper egypt was a desert region with fertile areas on the banks of the...