Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Independent Work

Today in class, on February 27, we were given a paper to fill out. At the beginning of class it was really cold and I went to go get my sweatshirt and earbuds so I could listen to music while I did my worksheet. The front of the paper was just filling out definitions. Some of the definitions that were on the paper were some of the definitions I looked up in my blog yesterday. Some definitions I did not have were cataracts, nome, dynasty, ka, and maat. The definition of cataract is many small boulders breaking the surface of a body of water, like in the Nile. Another example is a nome which means a territorial division of ancient Egypt. Then the backside was fill in the blanks but we got to skip 15-19.

Three ways the Nile influenced Egypt were
  1. Yearly flooding which made the soil fertile and leaving silt allowing the Egyptians to grow crops on it. 
  2. helped to unite upper and lower Egypt because it was a source of transportation between them both. 
  3. the Nile influenced where people lived so they could have a constant source of water 
The pyramids were built because most of them were tombs for a pharaoh who had died. They believed in an afterlife and if they made a grand tomb and put riches in the tomb, the pharaoh would have a good afterlife. 

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