First Cyberday

Today was a Cyberday.  After four days of having all, we have Cyberdays, where we have to do schoolwork even if we're not in school.  It's not as bad as it sounds, because now school isn't extended or time isn't cut in to Easter break.

Ok,  now that we all know what a Cyberday is, let's get in with what Mr. Schick told us to do.  Mr. Schick made a Prezi about Ancient Egypt, and we were told to take notes.  Here are the notes I took:

• Geography
• Egyptian life is centered around the Nile River
• Water for drinking, for irrigating, for bathing, and for transportation
• Every July it floods
• Every October it leaves behind rich soil
• The delta is a broad, marshy triangular area of fertile silt
• Managing the river required technological breakthroughs in irrigation
• Daily life
• Most important people greatest to least:
• Pharaoh
• Government Officials - Nobles, Priests
• Soldiers
• Scribes
• Merchants
• Artisans
• Farmers
• Slaves and Servants
• Slaves/servants helped the wealthy with household and child raising duties
• Raised wheat, barley, lentils, onions - benefitted from irrigation of the Nile
• Artisans would carve statues and reliefs showing military battles and scenes in the afterlife
• Money/barter system was used - merchants might accept bags of grain for payment - later, coinage came about
• Scribes kept records, told stories, wrote poetry described anatomy and medical treatments
• They wrote in hieroglyphs and in hieratic
• Soldiers used wooden weapons (bow and arrows, spears) with bronze tips and might ride chariots
• Upper class, known as the "white kilt class" - priests, physicians, engineers
• Religious and political leader
• Pharaohs
• the political and religious leader of the Egyptian people, holding the titles: "Lord of the Two Lands" and "High Priests of Every Temple."
• As "Lord of the Two Lands" the pharaoh was the ruler of Upper and Lower Egypt.  He owned all land, made laws, collected taxes, and defended Egypt against foreigners.
• Hatshepsut was a woman who served as pharaoh
• Cleopatra VII also served as pharaoh, but much later (51-30 BC)
• Goddesses and Gods
• Over 2000 gods and goddesses
• They "controlled" the lives of humans
• Pyramids
• The Great Sphinx of Giza
• Built 2555-2532 BC
• A recumbent lion with a human's head
• Oldest monumental statue in the world

(There were 2 videos in the Prezi, but I didn't take any notes on them.)