Hello,
Today we really talked about snow days. Mr. Schick had a few ideas about them as always and they were very interesting, but anyway. We are supposed to copy down notes for the 3rd section from Chapter 1 about Egypt, so here they are.
-steppes - vast semiarid grasslands or plains.
-the Indo-European people's lifestyle differed from the southwestern Asian nomads.
-the Hittites were the most powerful and longest ruled kingdoms.
-pharaohs - the rulers of ancient Egypt.
-the Egypt's king was also known as a God.
-all of their God's were known as maat.
-women very rarely wield the full authority of a pharaoh.
-Egyptians were polytheistic
-writing arose in Egypt
-earliest form of writing were the hieroglyphs
-hieroglyphs - the earliest Egyptian writing, in which pictures stood for whole words or separate sounds of words.
-knowledgeable in medicine.
-pyramid - a massive structure with sloping sides that met at an apex, used as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt.
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