HISA07H3 Lecture 4: HISA07-Lecture 4.docx
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Lecture 4: egypt and bronze age (5000-1200 bce) Egypt is a gift of the nile - without the nile egypt may not have existed as it is now. Horus associated with good things is the embodiment of the land (black rep"s fertility) Egypt: the two lands: upper (south; b/c physically higher than lower egypt in terms of sea level) and lower egypt. Delta: triangle (upside down); where flooding ends (today irrigated), desert begins. Nubia (modern day sudan); always in contact with egypt. *believed the god"s were the first king of cities passed to man-kind.
