Land of the Pharaohs: Egypt:
-During the Neolithic age, the people of the Nile had moved toward civilization in response to the same influences that gave rise to the cities of Sumer, but Egyptian civilization was more stable than that of Mesopotamia.
THE NARMER PALATTE- This palette was used for grinding makeup for divine images in an upper Egyptian temple about 3100 B.C.
The Nile and the "Two Lands":
- Egypt stretches along the lower reaches of the Niles four thousand mile course from Central Africa to the Mediterranean sea.
PHARAOHS- The rulers of ancient Egypt
Government by a God-King :
-The Egyptians, like other polytheistic peoples, recognized no hard-and-fast boundary between humans and gods, and in the case of the pharaoh, they took this belief much farther than the Mesopotamians.
Tending the "Cattle of God":
-As a god, every pharaoh was identified in different ways with three of the country's ruling deities.
Gods, Humans, and Everlasting Life:
-Many Egyptian deities, tracing back to the Stone Age, were originally conceived in the form of animals.
The Writing of the Words of God:
-Writing arose in Egypt, as did it in Sumer, along with civilization itself.
HIEROGLYPHS- The earliest Egyptian writing, in which pictures stood for whole words or separate sounds of words.
The Rhythm of Egypt's History:
-To hold the Egyptian state together for many centuries on end was no easy matter.
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