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·         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

·         The Narmer Palette was used for grinding makeup for images in an Upper Egyptian temple about 3100 B.C.

·         Egypt stretched along the lower teaches of the Nile’s four-thousand- mile Central Africa to the Mediterranean Sea

·         Divided into two sections; “Two Lands”

·         The Nile played a role similar to the roles that the Tigris and Euphrates played

·         Around 3100 B.C the Two Lands were unified under a single King.

·         Pharaohs- “palace” which they used to mean “the king”

·         No boundary between humans and gods

·         Pharaoh was the man given power by the gods

·         The Egyptian society was organized in such a as to be under the pharaohs control

·         The woman who were closest to the pharaoh, the kings mother and the kings principle wife, also had a touch of divinity, for it was a god who made them pregnant and a god whom they gave birth

·         The pharaoh had many other wives besides his principle one, most of them were the daughters of officials

·         Very rarely did a woman have the full authority of a pharaoh

·         “cattle of god”-woman as well as men were entitled to benefit from pharaohs rule

·         Daughters inherited property equal with the son, and the mother could divorcee the father

·         Men were expected to respect the woman on their families

·         The book of “wisdom” written in 1800 B.C told sons and husbands, “support your mother as she supported you”

·         Many Egyptians tracing back to the Stone Age, were originally conceived in the form of animals

·         Egypt came to offer a growing hope of immortality unlike Mesopotamia

·         Egyptian priests and rulers often speculated that behind all the different deities they worshiped there lay a single divine power

·         The hope of immortality strengthened ethical ideas in Egyptians religion

·         Writing arose in Egypt, as it did in Sumer, along with the civilization itself

·         Hieroglyphs- the earliest Egyptian writing was devised about 3100 B.C as part of carvings and paintings intended to honor the pharaohs

·         hieratic- priestly script

·         demotic- popular script

·          most Egyptian writing was done with ink on papyrus