• Runs South to North

• Runs through present-day Burundi all the way up to Egypt (and empties in the Mediterranean Sea)

• Lower Egypt is in the North.

• Upper Egypt is in the South.​

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​The Nile River is in the shape of a Lotus Flower.

​The Nile River

​The Nile River

​The Nile River floods every year and provides farmers with a way to irrigate their fields.

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Northern Africa is primarily desert, so water is very important.​

​What do you notice about Egypt in the 300s BCE?

​Akhenaten moved the capital to Tel El Amarna (above pic).

Saqqara Pyramid (step) for Pharaoh Djoser​ (bottom pic)

​Egypt's contributions:

​Mathematics, Science, Engineering and Architecture - Built temples, monuments such as pyramids, Abu Simbel, Sphinx, Tel El Amarna, Saqqara.

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• Papyrus

• Knowledge of circulation & body organs; mummification

• Astronomy (pyramids are aligned with Orion Constellation)​

​Sumer used Base 60

​Egypt used Base 2

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Egypt's Religion​

​Egyptians worshipped many gods.

Their main group of gods were known as the Ennead (9 gods).

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In the 18th Dynasty, Akhenaten forced his people to switch from a polytheistic religion to monotheism.

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How would that have impacted the economy and its people?​

​Egypt's Economic Impact

​Akhenaten replaced everyone's gods with Aten, the Sun God.

​The Pharaoh rules over everyone. He gives directions to his priests.

The Priests tell the engineers, architects, and workers what to build.

If they aren't worshipping the same gods, and therefore, aren't needing temples for those gods, what happens to the workers and their wages?​