How Did Civilization Influence Ancient Egyptian Civilization
Egyptian Civilization Influenced the 18th centuries
Egypt is very ancient with the most lasting civilization that existed in the world, located in the south in the northeastern part of Africa, surrounded by the immense desert of Sahara. Characterized by the three pyramids that emerged the banks of the Nile River higher than any construction erected elsewhere, tall pillars of stone called Sobelisks, statues of giant pharaohs long deceased, exotic mummies covered with gold and many enigmatic symbols of their sacred writing. Where the order opposite to chaos was the will of the Gods. To maintain order and dominate chaos the Egyptians imagined a king who was a God called Onus, the hawk ruler of the heavens, facing him was the God Seth who was the forerunner of chaos.
During the rule of ancient Egyptian Civilization, the first government to govern an entire nation originated were the Sumerians who had a literate and urban civilization around 3000 BC. Pharaoh was the ruler of Ancient Egypt which means that he ruled all the high and low Egypt and represented all the gods in all the Earth being a god himself that was between heaven and earth, which his personal well-being and the Welfare of the whole people were closely united.
Egypt was divided into …show more content…
names each ruled by a nomarch which were administrative regions. The Pharaoh had in his palace high officials, ministers, courtiers and was attended by a powerful minister called Vizir. The temples were used as places of worship, barns and treasures where grain and merchandise were stored.
The pharaohs are the main ones to ride in front of the army that was conformed by soldiers who were armed with spears, bows, arrows and for greater protection were circular shields made mainly of animal stretched on arches of wood, as it was passing the time there were many improvements in their armor, so they began to be made of bronze, being light and in the form of a sharp hook. Its main task was to defend the army of Egypt against the foreign invasion and to protect the commerce.
The great days of ancient Egypt were among the c. 3000 AC and c. 1000 BC, but civilization remained alive. Egypt was a leading power of the Middle East again between 612 and 525 BC, and Alexander the Great was crowned as Pharaoh in 332 BC. General Ptolemy became ruler of the country in 305 BC, was also crowned Pharaoh, lasting until the queen, Cleopatra, who died in 31 a. The construction and reassertion of Egyptian civilization during the 18th centuries it was conformed by a great percentage of pharaohs of the XVIII Dynasty acceded very young because some princes were alive at the moment of the death of its father but these young that governed did not have much power with the military, the officialdom and the priesthood and Who tried to manipulate the king, who had only served to legitimize the government controlled by one faction or another.
One of the most prominent kings in the history of ancient Egypt was the founder of the 18th Dynasty named Ahmos I (c.1570-1546 BC), succeeding in eliminating the group of Hyksos who had taken under Egypt for about 300 years.
About their religion they were believers of many gods and goddesses, for example Ra who was the god of the sun, or Isis the goddess of nature and magic, to mention some as Horus the god of war and Osiris the god of Dead Generally the localization of the image of God was hidden to the outside world and worshiped in temples led by priests.
In very few situations the god was exposed in public, small statues of gods and goddesses were used to be worshipers in their homes, also used amulets to protect against bad energies. The Egyptians believed in the afterlife and in the life after death, for example the preservation of the physical body by mummification. However, some people become lonely souls or ghosts that roam the
earth.
Initially the writing was based on hieroglyphs that can symbolize a word or sound that can have different purposes for several contexts. His writing consists of many symbols that can be interpreted in columns in any direction but mostly are from right to left but were only used in stone monuments and in tombs.
The economy of Egypt was based on different aspects, for example, agriculture depended completely on the Nile River but received very little rainfall so farmers irrigated their river fields and reservoirs. For the commerce was different since innumerable towns filled the bank of the river and the local markets. In Egypt there were several settlements and Memphis was one of the largest cities in the world. In the Bronze Age, commercial expeditions extended south to present-day Sudan and the Red Sea in search of exotic products such as ivory, gold, ostrich feathers and black slaves. Egypt had excellent mineral resources that had been successfully exploited in ancient times using quarries of limestone and granite occurred along the Nile Valley. In the eastern desert porphyry, alabaster, carnelian and emeralds were extracted. There were also gold mines, melted copper and iron deposits found in Upper Egypt were used in the late period, with these mineral resources the Egyptians built monuments, sculpted statues of all sizes and made metal tools and fashion jewelry.
In Egyptian society there were distinctions according to their population the peasants formed a large percentage of the population but the owner of the land was the Pharaoh or a noble family. Peasants paid taxes on labor and were sometimes required to work on public construction sites. Artisans, scribes and officials were of high rank in ancient Egyptian society. Within this group also belonged the priests. Slaves had been used as domestic servants in wealthy homes but were also able to buy and sell that was by law. On the other hand, women had a high status in Egyptian society as well as men who could own and sell goods.
Egypt is very ancient with the most lasting civilization that existed in the world, located in the south in the northeastern part of Africa, surrounded by the immense desert of Sahara. Characterized by the three pyramids that emerged the banks of the Nile River higher than any construction erected elsewhere, tall pillars of stone called Sobelisks, statues of giant pharaohs long deceased, exotic mummies covered with gold and many enigmatic symbols of their sacred writing. Where the order opposite to chaos was the will of the Gods. To maintain order and dominate chaos the Egyptians imagined a king who was a God called Onus, the hawk ruler of the heavens, facing him was the God Seth who was the forerunner of chaos.
During the rule of ancient Egyptian Civilization, the first government to govern an entire nation originated were the Sumerians who had a literate and urban civilization around 3000 BC. Pharaoh was the ruler of Ancient Egypt which means that he ruled all the high and low Egypt and represented all the gods in all the Earth being a god himself that was between heaven and earth, which his personal well-being and the Welfare of the whole people were closely united.
Egypt was divided into …show more content…
names each ruled by a nomarch which were administrative regions. The Pharaoh had in his palace high officials, ministers, courtiers and was attended by a powerful minister called Vizir. The temples were used as places of worship, barns and treasures where grain and merchandise were stored.
The pharaohs are the main ones to ride in front of the army that was conformed by soldiers who were armed with spears, bows, arrows and for greater protection were circular shields made mainly of animal stretched on arches of wood, as it was passing the time there were many improvements in their armor, so they began to be made of bronze, being light and in the form of a sharp hook. Its main task was to defend the army of Egypt against the foreign invasion and to protect the commerce.
The great days of ancient Egypt were among the c. 3000 AC and c. 1000 BC, but civilization remained alive. Egypt was a leading power of the Middle East again between 612 and 525 BC, and Alexander the Great was crowned as Pharaoh in 332 BC. General Ptolemy became ruler of the country in 305 BC, was also crowned Pharaoh, lasting until the queen, Cleopatra, who died in 31 a. The construction and reassertion of Egyptian civilization during the 18th centuries it was conformed by a great percentage of pharaohs of the XVIII Dynasty acceded very young because some princes were alive at the moment of the death of its father but these young that governed did not have much power with the military, the officialdom and the priesthood and Who tried to manipulate the king, who had only served to legitimize the government controlled by one faction or another.
One of the most prominent kings in the history of ancient Egypt was the founder of the 18th Dynasty named Ahmos I (c.1570-1546 BC), succeeding in eliminating the group of Hyksos who had taken under Egypt for about 300 years.
About their religion they were believers of many gods and goddesses, for example Ra who was the god of the sun, or Isis the goddess of nature and magic, to mention some as Horus the god of war and Osiris the god of Dead Generally the localization of the image of God was hidden to the outside world and worshiped in temples led by priests.
In very few situations the god was exposed in public, small statues of gods and goddesses were used to be worshipers in their homes, also used amulets to protect against bad energies. The Egyptians believed in the afterlife and in the life after death, for example the preservation of the physical body by mummification. However, some people become lonely souls or ghosts that roam the
earth.
Initially the writing was based on hieroglyphs that can symbolize a word or sound that can have different purposes for several contexts. His writing consists of many symbols that can be interpreted in columns in any direction but mostly are from right to left but were only used in stone monuments and in tombs.
The economy of Egypt was based on different aspects, for example, agriculture depended completely on the Nile River but received very little rainfall so farmers irrigated their river fields and reservoirs. For the commerce was different since innumerable towns filled the bank of the river and the local markets. In Egypt there were several settlements and Memphis was one of the largest cities in the world. In the Bronze Age, commercial expeditions extended south to present-day Sudan and the Red Sea in search of exotic products such as ivory, gold, ostrich feathers and black slaves. Egypt had excellent mineral resources that had been successfully exploited in ancient times using quarries of limestone and granite occurred along the Nile Valley. In the eastern desert porphyry, alabaster, carnelian and emeralds were extracted. There were also gold mines, melted copper and iron deposits found in Upper Egypt were used in the late period, with these mineral resources the Egyptians built monuments, sculpted statues of all sizes and made metal tools and fashion jewelry.
In Egyptian society there were distinctions according to their population the peasants formed a large percentage of the population but the owner of the land was the Pharaoh or a noble family. Peasants paid taxes on labor and were sometimes required to work on public construction sites. Artisans, scribes and officials were of high rank in ancient Egyptian society. Within this group also belonged the priests. Slaves had been used as domestic servants in wealthy homes but were also able to buy and sell that was by law. On the other hand, women had a high status in Egyptian society as well as men who could own and sell goods.