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Egypt and Kush Culture

Egypt and Kush Culture . By: Maddie, Skylar, and Mackenzie . Egypt Culture: Scribes. Scribes work for government Kept up with records, accounts for state, also wrote and copied religious and text. They were below the priest and government offices. Egypt Culture: Writing .

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Egypt and Kush Culture

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  1. Egypt and Kush Culture By: Maddie, Skylar, and Mackenzie

  2. Egypt Culture:Scribes • Scribes work for government • Kept up with records, accounts for state, also wrote and copied religious and text. • They were below the priest and government offices.

  3. Egypt Culture:Writing • Pictures in books were cloth folded, a leg, a star, a bird, and a man with a stick • Writing system called hieroglyphics, meant to teach • Earliest writing was found to be 3300 BC • Used stone • Than they made papyrus, paper like material, and wrote with brushes and ink • Rosetta Stone was a big key to learn about Hieroglyphics

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  5. Egypt Culture:Art • Below scribes were the advanced artisans. • Worked in temples • Made Jewelry , statues, furnituiture, pottery, foot were, and etc. • Admired in Egypt • Talented worked for government • Some painting showed crowning of king and queen • Paintings were of legs, one side of body, and people were not always the same.

  6. Egypt Culture:Art • The drawings were on columns that held up the roof • The columns had drawings of The Temple of Karnak • The Temple of Karnak was the only great temple of Egypt • Temples were home to gods • Rows of stone sphinxes, imaginary animals, lined up when you walked in • Drawings inside of temple

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  8. Egypt Culture:Farmers • Farmers were toward the bottom of the social scale • They were most of Egypt population • They had to give food to the pharaoh as a tax

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  10. Egypt Culture:Slaves • Slaves were at the bottom • Some had legal rights, and some had freedom.

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  12. Egypt Culture:Men • Most families lived alone • Men were expected to marry young to state having kids

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  14. Egypt Culture:Women • Women were devoted to home • Some had other jobs • Women had legal rights, own • Property, make contracts, and divorce husbands.

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  16. Egypt Culture:Children • Played with toys, ballgames, and hunted • Boys and girls got education • They learned morals, math, writing, and learned how to play sports • At the age of 14 most boys left school to enter there fathers profession

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  18. Kush Culture • Kush used bronze weapons and were skilled archers . • Kush buildings and temples resembled those in Egypt . • Kush worshipped Egyptian gods and wore Egyptian clothes . • Kush rulers used the title pharaoh and were buried in Pyramids . • Gods were apart of everyday life • 1st dynasty each village worshiped there own gods • They believed that the after life they would by young and healthy

  19. Kush Culture • Kush got some of their culture from other cities many of them though were not borrowed • Kush houses in the cities where formed by interweaving ( spilt picies of palm wood ) or of bricks • People of Kush worshiped their own gods • They developed their own language called meroitic.

  20. Kush Culture • Women in Kush were excepted to be active in their society • Hunted elephants, lions, and panthers

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