Around 5000 BC, people from the Sahara Desert, which was becoming too dry to live in, migrated to the Nile River Valley in Egypt. The flooding of the Nile provided fertile soil for agriculture and was critical for Egypt's development, allowing the Egyptians to grow crops, use the river for transportation and irrigation, and build cities along its banks. The Egyptians also established a social hierarchy, developed hieroglyphic writing, and practiced mummification as part of their religious beliefs about the afterlife.

3. HISTORY
LOCATION OF EGYPT
THE RIVER NILE
CULTURE AND THEIR RELIGION
MUMMIFICATION

4. Around, About 5000 BC the weather
changed and the Sahara became the
Sahara Desert. The people who lived in
the Sahara before needed a place to get
water and live so they went out on a hunt
for water and found a river so they called
this land The Nile Valley at that time.

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Flooded every year
Provided fertile soil for crops
Was the “Lifeline” for Egypt
Transportation Route
Used for Irrigation
Flows south to north

8. Main crops were barley, wheat and
flax
 Main food was bread, fish, vegetables
and fruit. Only the wealthy ate
meat.
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9. Egyptian Social Pyramid
Egyptian
Social
Classes were
based on
wealth, job
and
education

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People built homes from mud bricks
Most important people had better houses.

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Egyptians developed a form of picture or
symbol writing.

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Egyptians believed that when people die,
they move on to another world.
Since people needed their body in the
afterlife, it would need to be “preserved.”
The process of mummification was
developed.

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Language: Picture Coded
Architecture: Pyramids
Inventions: 365 day calendar, papyrus (paper),
irrigation system, mathematics, medicine,
weapons.
Art: statues, paintings, jewelry