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    What Ancient Egypt’s Pyramids Really Stand For The harsh desert winds‚ the burning Egyptian sun‚ and a couple thousands of years has physically decreased the Great Pyramid of Giza’s height by about thirty-one feet‚ but has had no effect on its strength and power as a symbol of the wondrous society of ancient Egypt. All of the Egyptians’ pyramids display the hierarchy‚ social values‚ their education‚ and their religious beliefs. Thus‚ the symbolic pyramids that ancient Egypt constructed‚ specifically

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    was the sun god Re. Pharaohs also often had many wives but they only had one queen. The Great Pyramids of Giza- There are 3 chambers inside the pyramid. The lower one‚ is made of limestone bedrock and was never completed. The 2nd and 3rd were known as the king and queens chamber. Surrounding the pyramid are tombs‚ statues‚ and other monuments‚ this certainly would be a site to see! Step Pyramid at Saqqara- This was the 1st stone building ever made. Djoser constructed this beauty. Where will

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    The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza‚ Egypt. It is the oldest of the seven wonders of the ancient world‚ and the only one to remain intact. Egyptologists believe that the pyramid was built over a 10-20 year time span. It was built around 2560 BC. The Great Pyramid was the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3‚800 years‚ until The Great Wall of China was built! The Great wall was originally

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    Pyramid Construction and the Afterlife of the Pharaoh The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It is the only one left standing out of the seven. The Great Pyramid was built in honor of the Pharaoh‚ Khufu. It was once believed that the pyramids were constructed by slaves. It was later discovered that out of work farmers would work on the pyramids when the tide rose for the Nile. It was then believed that the deceased would be buried with the things that they would

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    These pyramids took place in the Third Dynasty during 2630-2575 BC. King Djoser commissioned this monumental architecture in Egypt. The designer was Djoser’s prime minister‚ Ihotep‚ whose name is inscribed on a statue at the site. The purpose was to hold his mummified body. The Step Pyramid of Pharaoh Djoser’s at Saqqara arose as a traditional‚ flat-roofed mastaba‚ although in 2611 B.C.‚ by the end of his nineteen-year reign‚ it had risen to six stepped layers and stood two hundred and four feet

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    Egypt Research Paper Pyramids were made to bury dead kings in. The chambers that a pyramid had were‚ usually had was a king’s chamber‚ a queen’s chamber and a subterranean chamber. It also had a grand valley and three shafts. The casing was made out of stone‚ so it would smooth the surface. The pyramids took a little more than twenty years to build. It was very hard to built pyramids. First‚ they had to prepare the place it was going to be built. Then‚ they had to take blocks of stone transport

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    remained intact-the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt‚ which is also the oldest of the ancient wonders. On the west bank of the Nile River‚ there are three pyramid erected on a rocky plateau in Giza in the northern part of Egypt. These pyramids were named after these kings-Khufu‚ Khafre‚ and Menkaure-agree with the kings’ names‚ and one of the most famous pyramids is the pyramid of Khufu‚ also known as the Great Pyramid‚ because it is the largest of the three. The Great Pyramid was built for Khufu‚ the

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    STRATEGY FOR SERVING BOTTOM OF THE PYRAMID MARKET Mridanish Jha Assistant Professor‚ Cambridge Institute of Technology‚ Ranchi‚ India Email: mridanishjha@gmail.com ABSTRACT This article present insight into the nature and characteristics of BOP markets‚ the challenges that organization will encounter when venturing into them and the strategies to counter these challenges. In the recent past‚ there has been an interest in marketing to the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) market and several successful

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    Marketing challenges for BOP markets: BOP or Bottom of pyramid is a socio economic term given for the strata of low income people in the income pyramid (used to approximate the distribution of a country’s income). Thus obviously Bottom of Pyramid constitutes the market made of country’s poorest people. In India approximately 6 Lacs villages and 72% of country’s population constitutes BOP. The great majority of men and women of this BOP cluster work in agriculture‚ animal husbandry‚ factories or

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    Theories Regarding How the Pyramids at Giza Were Constructed In: Historical Events There Have Been Many Theories Regarding How the Pyramids at Giza Were Constructed There are many theories as to how the pyramids at Giza were constructed. Most experts agree that they were constructed as burial monuments for pharaohs‚ but “how” these ancient people constructed monuments of such great size without modern machinery is a mystery which is still being debated. The pyramids of Giza are the only surviving

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