Essay Questions #2

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1. The three innovations and inventions of Ancient Egypt that were very important to me were the first plow, the first type of paper and first written language. First off the first plow was made by the farmers of Ancient Egypt. They used it to make farming so much easier for the people of Egypt. they would put the plow on a domesticated animal and move it across the land to make farming much easier. In the end it made many of the people in the village have a much easier job when farming. This invention could have possibly never been built, but it is certainly used in today's times.

The second innovations that was made in Ancient Egypt was the first type of paper. The first type of paper that was made was called papyrus. It was made from the papyrus plant which was common in their time. Mostly scribes used the papyrus plant to make paper that was used in everyday writing with scribes. They used these to mostly do all of the writing in the village. Papyrus was obviously used a lot and was a great innovation and paper may not have been where it is today without the papyrus plant.

Egyptians majorly contributed to the evolution of written language. Egyptians really developed the first language. Some of the first language wasn't really a language at all because they had a lot to do with pictures. Many of it was a lot of symbolic and alphabetic symbols. Scribes used a lot of symbols to describe a lot of gods and goddesses because scribes wrote a lot about them because all of the people praised them. Most of the first writing appeared in the Mesopotamia, but it was first really used mostly in Egypt.

2. There are many features of the Egyptian pyramids that are extremely complex and so magnificent. The pyramids are absolutely amazing and are the only seven ancient wonders of the world that still remain. Almost all of the others have been destroyed by earthquakes and or plundering. After tons of erosion of the pyramids and plundering the pyramids still stand. The first thing that is amazing about the pyramids is that it still remains today and it was that sturdy to withstand all of the things that have been putting it down. It just shows the craftsmanship that was put into it that made it still stand today.

The next thing that I found absolutely amazing about the pyramids is the secret rooms and the mazes in the pyramids. Most of the pyramids were tombs for many important pharaohs. Obviously they didn't just put the tomb in the middle, but they actually hid them in secret rooms that were found through secret hatches that were gotten into by things like moving one stone block out and a room appearing and other things like that. Obviously it is no easy task getting into the actual tomb, but it has been done by some people and it has been plundered, but I'm not sure if all of the tombs have been raided. Although they have been plundered it was absolutely amazing how the Egyptians made all of the mazes that in the pyramids and how smart they were in their secret traps and rooms.

The last thing that I found absolutely amazing about the pyramids is the actual craftsmanship. The people that made the pyramids were government workers. All of the pyramids and the Great Sphinx were made of marble that was put on over stone. The marble has been stripped long before our time and now it just leaves the stone. But by craftsmanship I mean that all of the pieces of the stone was absolutely perfectly put together, by this I mean you can't even fit a knife in between two of the pieces of stone. This is how great that it was put together. This topic also goes along with the mazes because not only was it made of perfectly placed stone, but they actually hollowed out the inside and made all of these paintings and hieroglyphs inside of the pyramids along with different tombs and secret rooms. All in all when you think about the pyramids, how they are standing and how they were made are actually REALLY incredible.