Ancient Egypt
Key Features/Innovations
Key Features/innovations questions
Questions I ask to the ancient Egyptians about key features/innovations:
Q: What does it mean to be a scribe? What do they use? Is it difficult to be one? Who can be a scribe?
Q: What advancements did you make in medical technology?
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Q: How is your society organized?
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Questions I ask myself:
Q: If I could be anyone in Ancient Egypt besides the pharaoh who would I be?
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You would need to learn how to read and write. They would write on papyrus with reed brushes dipped in ink.
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We preform surgeries using tools such as saws, forceps, scales, shears, hooks, spoons, drill, a graduated cubit (measuring rod), shears and of course, knives.
Pharaohs are ranked at the top and after pharaohs is viziers then priests and nobles, scribes and soliders, craftsmen, and at the bottom is farmers and slaves.
I want to be a scribe because then I would know how to read and write which is valuble to me and I would be close to the top of the society.
Inventions
Papyrus
Papyrus was the first form of durable sheets of paper to write on, and the ancient Egyptians developed it. The material was called “papyrus” because it was made from the papyrus plant that grows along the Nile.
The ancient Egyptians primarily used papyrus for recording religious texts and other important documents. Papyrus was mass produced in Egypt and sold to other ancient civilizations, such as Ancient Greece, for their record keeping too.
Calender
The ancient Egyptian calendar was invented more than 5,000 years ago and was originally based on the 12-month lunar cycle. They grouped the months into three seasons of four months that seemed to coincide with the Nile River.
However, this calendar wasn’t accurate enough. They soon noticed that although the river would flood every year around the end of June, the flood occurred within a range of 80 days.
Therefore, after noticing that the river’s flooding and rising coincided with the heliacal rising of the star Sirius, they based their year on the cycle of this star’s reappearance, effectively applying astronomy principles to develop a more accurate calendar by which to track the days of the year. We still use ancient Egyptians' calendar model in our tracking of the days today.
Hieroglyphics
The ancient Egyptians were among the first groups of people to write and keep records of events that happened in their lives. The earliest form of writing was in the form of hieroglyphics, which, simply put, were drawings that portrayed a story. Hieroglyphics are some of the oldest artifacts in the world today, and the Egyptians used them to keep accurate records and maintain control of their empire.
