TABLE OF CONTENTS NSCI 110:

Nile River
SCIENCE,
Natural Barriers TECHNOLOGY,
Egyptian Religion SOCIETY
Egyptian Afterlife
Egyptian Burial Process DISCUSS BY:
Egyptian Writing Edna Mirasol
Egyptian hieroglyphics
Egyptian Government Norelie Ladimo
Egyptian History Norklenette Cerbas
Egyptian Social Pyramid Daiyne Develles
Egyptian Education
Kingdoms of Egypt BSED 1: ENGLISH
Scientific Accomplishment
 NSCI 110: SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY
DISCUSS BY:
Edna Mirasol
BSED 1: ENGLISH
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 Nile River
 Natural Barriers Ronel B. Amorin
 Egyptian Religion
Course Facilitator
ANCIENT EGYPT
 NILE RIVER
The longest river in the world
Nile river flows from south to
north
CATARACTS: waterfalls along
Nile river that protected the
Egyptian from invasion
HERODOTUS called Egypt the
“gift of the NIle”
1. It was the only source of water
2. Without the Nile, the Egyptian
culture would never have
existed
 NATURAL BARRIERS
o Settlers choose the banks of the
Nile because the river provided
water of survival

o Seas and desert surrounded the

land

o Cataracts also made the

invasion difficult

o The weak spot of invasion is

SINAI PENINSULA
 EGYPTIAN RELIGION
POLYTHEISM: the belief in many
Gods

MONOTHEISM: the belief in one

God

 Egyptian Gods controlled the force

of nature.

 Egyptian identified the Gods with

animals, ex: cats, dogs, jackals,
falcon, cows, hawks, etc…
 NSCI 110: SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY
DISCUSS BY:
Norelie Ladimo
BSED 1: ENLISH
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 Egyptian Afterlife
 Egyptian Burial Process Ronel B. Amorin
 Egyptian Writing
Course Facilitator
 EGYPTIAN AFTERLIFE
The Egyptian believed in life after
death

Osiris will judges you: weighs your

heart against a feather (symbol of
truth)

If the heart is light (innocence), one

goes to the OTHER WORLD

If the heart is heavy (guilty), one is

fed to Ammit the DEVOURER OF
SOULS
PYRAMID: burial tombs
for the king

They would filled with

food and riches to go with
them into afterlife
 EGYPTIAN BURIAL PROCESS
 MUMMIFICATION: process that preserved the body of the
dead for entry into the afterlife

 They will remove the organs except for the heart. The
replace it with artificial organs.

 CANOPIC JARS: jars that held the organs

 NATRON: they used it to dry the body (the body would sit
for 70 days)

 They wrap the body with bandages with amulets that bring
good luck or avert bad luck
 ANKH: symbol of eternal life

 SARCOPHAGUS: an ornamental coffin

 CARTAUOCHE: oval nameplate

 EGYPTIAN WRITING
HIEROGLYPHICS: Egyptian writing

DEMOTIC: simpler hieroglyphics

SRCRIBE: one who could read and

write
EGYPTIAN HIEREGLOPHICS

PAPRYRUS: Egyptian paper (before

that they carved it into the wood or
stones)
 NATRON AMULETS

CANOPIC JARS ANKH

 NSCI 110: SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY
DISCUSS BY:
Norcklenette Cerbas
TABLE OF
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 Egyptian hieroglyphics
 Egyptian Government Ronel B. Amorin
 Egyptian History
Course Facilitator
 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS

Hieroglyphs, meaning
"holy writings", were
the ancient Egyptian
script of the gods and
pharaohs, used for
over 3000 years.
 EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT

PHARAOH: ruler of Ancient Egypt

(Great House)

DYNASTY: ruling family

VIZIER: a chief minister who

helped the pharaoh rule
 EGYPTIAN HISTORY
o 2 KINGDOMS OF EGYPT;

1. Lower Egypt (North of Thebes)

2. Upper Egypt (South of Thebes)

o 3100 B.C: MENES; the first Pharaoh

united Upper and Lower Egypt
 NSCI 110: SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY
DISCUSS BY:
Daiyne C. Develles
BSED 1: ENGLISH
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CONTENTS

 Egyptian Social Pyramid

 Egyptian Education Ronel B. Amorin
 Kingdoms of Egypt
 Scientific Accomplishment
Course Facilitator
 In Ancient Egypt were almost determined by birth SOCIAL CLASS
 EGYPTIAN EDUCATION
 The first schools were to train priests
in Egypt

 The sons of the pharaoh were

educated at home by tutors

 Noble boys only attended school

 Egyptian middle class and lower

class boys did not go to school; they
learned trade from their fathers
 KINGDOMS OF EGYPT
Old Kingdom of Egypt
(2700 B.C. – 2200B.C.)

Middle Kingdom of Egypt New Kingdom of Egypt

(2050 B.C. – 1800B.C.) (1570 B.C. – 1090B.C.)
 IMHOTEP: builder of the step pyramid
 PYRAMID AGE: were pyramids are built o HYKSOS: invaders from West Asia
 GREAT PYRAMIDS OF GIZA: 3
 EMPIRE: a group territories or
that conquered Egypt (first to use people controlled by one ruler
pyramids
horse drawn)
1. KHUFU(CHEOPS): largest pyramid  EMPIRE AGE: Egypt built great
2. KHAFRE(CHEPHREN): Khufu’s son o They ruled Egypt for 200 years.
3. MENKAURE(MYCERINUS): Khafre’s
wealth through trade and
They taught the Egyptians military conquering of lands
son
skills but were conquered in 1570
 GREAT SPHINX OF GIZA: stone statue B.C.  HATSHEPSUT: first woman ruler
with lion’s body and pharaoh’s head built
to guard the pyramids known to history
 FAMOUS EGYPTIAN
THUTMOSE II OBELISK from the NEW KINGDOM
RAMSES II

THUTMOSE III AMENHOTEP/AKENATON TUTANKHAMON

 CLEOPATRA
The last PHARAOH OF EGYPT
and lover of Julius Caesar.

She tried to restore Egypt to

greatness but she was conquered
by Roman Empire and committed
suicide with lover, Mark Antony.

She poisoned herself with asp.

 SCIENTIFIC
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
 Egyptians were the first to SURVEY LAND
after flooding season

 They have 365 DAY CALENDAR: 12 months

30 days each with 5 days left over

 They had 3 season: FLOODING season,

PLANTING season and HARVESTING season.

 Engineering built the pyramid

 Embalming

 Medical discoveries included the study of

spinal cord, splints, bandages, etc..
THANK
YOU!!