Pros And Cons Of Ancient Egyptian Civilization

Griffin Sisk

10/24/15

Global 1 Mr. Viele

Period 3 Egypt should be considered the best ancient civilization, because of so many things, to start with the geography, their technology, government, beliefs, and art. They were arguably the first civilization on the earth. In my opion Ancient Egypt should be considered the cradle of Civilization. One of the most important reasons that Egypt was a powerful empire is because of where it was, on the Nile River. Egypt emerged next to the Nile because the soil was damp next to the Nile, so it was the best place to farm in Egypt. The pros of the Geography in Egypt is that it is next to the Nile. The con of settling next to the Nile is that it fluids every year and destroyed everything. The

They believed that their gods influence their everyday lives. The ancient Egyptians believed that that Ra the sun god created everything, the other gods, plants, animals, and humans. Some of their gods include Nut these are the godly children she had with Geb, the god of the earth; Orisris, Isis, Seth, and Nephythis. My other favorite Egyptian gods are Anubis, son of Seth and Nephythys, protector of the dead, Hapi god of the Nile, Sobeck, the crocodile god and finally Ma’at the goddesses of truth and all that is good. One of the many Rituals in ancient Egypt was mummification, they used this on Pharaoh's so that they would have a good life in the next world. First the priest took the brains out of the ears and nose and then wrapped the pharaoh in papyrus. The Pharaoh’s priests and they were priests that especially worship only one out of the many gods. The pharaoh had priest because he couldn’t be everywhere at the same to provoke rituals, this position was usually passed down to the sons of the priest from the

Then they would, barter with people around them to get the things that they really need to survive. Then the ancient Egyptians started using grains of wheat as currency. After that they finally started to use coins. The Ancient Egyptians taxed mostly the farmers and lower class more than the upper class. About 10 percent of the crops that the people produced. At this time ancient Egypt was pretty much self-sufficient. They didn’t need to trade much with other countries a lot; but when they did trade they usually traded away flax an import fiber to make cloths, and mud because it was so good because of the