Today in West Civ. we took some more notes on Egypt. I learned
that Upper and Lower Egypt were united by a single king or pharaoh in 3100 B.C.
Pharaoh was all powerful, was worshiped as a god and intimately connected to
the other major Egyptian gods and goddesses. Pharaohs had multiple wives, often
married their own sisters, and all routes of financial and social success were
through the palace. They did not have a physical relationship with their
sisters. Women could inherit money, land, and divorce their husbands, through
only a tiny few ever wielded real political powers. The gods they believed in
often had animal heads and human bodies. They believed in after death and would
mummify the bodies to preserve them for this post death journey. I have learned
about Egypt when I was in eighth grade and I remember a lot of the information.
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