1. By: Leslie Méndez, QYLE 110
CULTURE
ECONOMY
RELIGION
ARCHITECTURE
SOCIAL
As was his way
of life and
what were
their legacies

2. CULTURE
Life in Egypt is mainly
determined by the
flooding of the Nile
River caused increased
its banks flooding in
nearby areas, thus
enabling the
development of
agriculture in society.
This is why the
Egyptians located most
of their cities near the
Nile, but also had in
mind the danger of
flooding, so that
sometimes they did on
high ground.

3. ECONOMY
Barter
Some of the materials they
were imported from foreign
lands incense, silver and fine
cedar wood. Much of the
Egyptian trade goods carried
in ships.
Slavery
The slaves had legal
rights, could obtain
wealth, and received a good
deal, especially for domestic
service. Should receive food
and shelter as payment, but
also a certain amount of
fabrics, clothing and oil, and
could buy land or be
maintained by his master.
Agriculture
Egypt's economy was based on agriculture. Life
depended on crop lands flooded by the Nile.

4. RELIGION
The history of Egypt is a religious
version, polytheistic. (The Egyptian
deified forces of nature, therefore all
their gods together human and
animal characteristics. The annual
cycle of flooding and fertilization of
the land that produces the Nile was
a the religion central element in
their beliefs.)
The purpose of worship is to
maintain and enhance the
established order of the world. The
cult practiced it a whole hierarchy of
priests.
The Egyptians had a technique of
embalming corpses, mummies and
the construction of large tombs so
they could continue living in the
afterlife.

5. ARCHITECTURE
The Egyptians built
monumental temples
dedicated to gods, excelling
in them his great symbolic
impact, size and great
harmony and functionality
of their spaces. The
pyramids, mastaba and
cenotaphs, whose greatness
depended on the character's
social class to bury. The
tombs of several pharaohs
pyramids were built, for his
glory.
The buildings of the
Egyptians were mostly
of adobe, straw
material and mud
created due to the
absence of stones and
wood in the area. Only
the great temples and
funerary
constructions using
stone taken from
quarries.

6. There was the divorce to be one of the
parties repudiated, what motivated the
The family in the Egyptian society
abandonment of the home by one spouse,
was based on the marriage.
usually the woman. The husband should
The age for the marriage was 20
be maintained to the ex-wife.
years for men and between 15 and
The main objective of the marriage was
18 for women. These links used to
procreation in order to ensure the lineage
be concluded between the members
and a decent burial to the parents. During
of the family, and always within the
the first three years of life of the child, it
same social class.
would be breastfed by his mother. Which
The prerequisite to a place a used to lead the educational process was
wedding was the permission of the the father, showing the son the family
father. Entered into the craft workshop or store.
marriage, he came to the wording of
a contract which included the
contributions and rights of both
spouses, in terms of equality.
Adultery could be punished with
death, especially if the adulteress
was the woman.

7. It reproduces the cylinder-seal, the
art of building brick, the technique
of building ships and above all the
writing that emerges around 3000
BC
Egypt highlighted by his scientific
achievements, especially in
mathematics and medicine, for its
colossal buildings and Astronomy, established the notion
monuments, temples and pyramids of the zodiac, the sphere of the
and being a true source of cultural universe, especially the sun and the
influence. moon, the explanation of
eclipses, the hypothesis of epicycles
One of the most important
to justify the rotation of the sun ...
contributions to Greek culture was
all taken by the Greeks.
the geometry. Calculated the area of
the rectangle and isosceles
triangles, and starting from As for medicine (have come down to
there, they managed to calculate us a lot of papyrus), knew the
polygonal and volume of a truncated
suture, sterilization, tooth
pyramid with a rectangular base.
replacement and other techniques
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