ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Nile, Hieratic, Menes
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Ancient nile valley is dated for: 5000 to 1075 bc. Remember: chiefdoms are dated for 5000 to 3100 bc. States are dated for 3100 to 1640 bc. Empires are dated for 1640 to 1075 bc. Dated for 5000 to 3100 bc: upper and lower egypt, was the beginning of hieroglyphic writing. Remember: what a settlement system : a hierarchal arrangement of settlements in relation to one another. The nile valley wasa territorial sate with a capital that moved once. Settlement pattern: the nile was not highly urbanized the majority of the area was rural. The nile had: monumental architecture like palaces, temples, burial monuments (there was a big focus on this especially for the elite mummification was in practice keeping the body in tact so that the soul was preserved) Occupational specialization was present in the nile including: peasant farmers, artisans, artists/scribes. Different mortuary practices were in effect in egypt/nile: this included looting tombs,
