HIST 1001 Chapter : Egypt
Document Summary
Eternal egypt: egyptian geography, benevolent waters: the nile river. Flows south to north facilitating transportation: because transportation was so easy, they never developed advanced sea vessels; never ventured into the mediterranean. Floods according to regular cycle so agriculturally advantageous: not like tigris and euphrates; nile floods were predictable and. Tigris/euphrates floods were erratic: depended on floods for survival; silt and topsoil allowed for growing food, gave egypt unique culture. The nile was the very thing that made egypt egyptian: an island in the desert: egypt"s borders, geographically isolated, north: vast desert, west: nile. Tombs for pharaohs, but also temples for worship: language and writing style, hieroglyphics and the rosetta stone, hieroglyphics= "priest carvings, rosetta stone discovered 1798; translated by jean-francois. Thutmose iii (1480-1450) and ramses ii (1279-1213: after hyksos invasion, egyptians felt unsafe. Egyptians began to travel and conquer other places, led to problems with the hittites (settled in asia minor, modern day.
