The Importance Of Religion In Ancient Egypt

The Egyptian past contains religion, government, and writing and those are the major things that makes Egypt what it is. Religion in Egypt is so important because it made people praise and fear it at the same time. The government in Egypt is also important because they made the important decisions like to trade with other Empires or not. The writing in Egypt is so unique and so contradistinct. The Egyptian Empire will always be remembered because of these things that happened in Egypt. Ancient Egyptian religion wasn’t a monotheistic religion, but a polytheistic religion with rituals and offerings to their god to keep everything in place. The religion would take place in a temple(the pyramids) and the Egyptians would do their sacrifices there. The religion also had “the Egyptians made great efforts to ensure the survival of their souls after death, providing tombs, grave goods, and offerings to preserve the bodies and spirits of the deceased”(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_religion). Religion in Egypt also made some kings a God-king which made people in Egypt treat the king very well. Ancient Egyptian religion impact on some religion today and will be remembered for their sacrifices.

Ancient Egyptian government relied on the pharoah and agriculture which were the two important components. The government had different levels some people in the government would be in a higher place like representing nationally and others would represent regionally. The Ancient Egyptian government affected the governmnet we have today (http://guardianlv.com/2014/01/ancient-egypt-government/). Ancient Egyptian government has brunt the other governments in that