1 / 75

Chapter One

Chapter One. Egypt. Geography. http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmnh/exhibits/egypt/images/nilemap.gif. Lower Egypt : --near delta and Mediterranean Sea Upper Egypt : --south, just above Nubia. The Nile : a river society the annual summer inundation

regis
Télécharger la présentation

Chapter One

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Chapter One Egypt

  2. Geography

  3. http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmnh/exhibits/egypt/images/nilemap.gifhttp://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmnh/exhibits/egypt/images/nilemap.gif

  4. Lower Egypt: --near delta and Mediterranean Sea Upper Egypt: --south, just above Nubia

  5. The Nile: a river society the annual summer inundation (--stopped because of Aswan Dam) the east: the land of the living the west: the land of the dead

  6. http://www.deltatoursegypt.com/hotels/egypt_map.jpg

  7. Religion

  8. Polytheism http://www.crystalinks.com/isis.html

  9. Re: the sun god → resurrection http://www.crystalinks.com/ra.html

  10. Re was the old solar-god from Heliopolis and a mayor deity all over Egypt. He was travelling over the sky in his boat every day with his life-giving sundisc. He stood for life, rebirth, children, health, virility etc. • http://www.nemo.nu/ibisportal/0egyptintro/1egypt/index.htm

  11. Patrolling the sky

  12. In the underworld http://www.crystalinks.com/ra.html

  13. Osiris: king of the dead http://www.nemo.nu/ibisportal/0egyptintro/1egypt/index.htm

  14. Osiris ruled the world of men in the beginning, after Ra had abandoned the world to rule the skies, but he was murdered by his brother Seth. Through the magic of Isis, he was made to live again. Being the first person to die, he subsequently became lord of the dead. His death was avenged by his son Horus, who defeated Seth and cast him out into the desert to the West of Egypt. http://www.crystalinks.com/osiris.html

  15. Isis: mother goddess http://www.nemo.nu/ibisportal/0egyptintro/1egypt/index.htm

  16. Isis is the feminine archetype for creation - the goddess of fertility and motherhood. • http://www.crystalinks.com/isis.html

  17. http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/EGYPT/EGYPT.HTM

  18. http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/egypt/isis.htm

  19. Horus: the falcon god http://www.nemo.nu/ibisportal/0egyptintro/1egypt/index.htm

  20. When Horus reached manhood, a fratricidal war began between Horus and his uncle Seth. The violent fight, where Horus lost one eye, last until the assembly of the gods decided to intervene to declare that the throne was the rightful inheritance of Horus. Moreover, Seth was forced to restore Horus‘ eye. But to honor the memory of Osiris, Horus offered the recovered eye to his father, and covered his wound with the divine serpent, Uraeus. That is why this sacred serpent was considered the emblem of the Egyptian pharaohs. http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/phikent/horus/horus.html

  21. Horus→ sky god; god of Egypt http://www.crystalinks.com/horus.html

  22. The Eye of Horus http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/egypt/horus.htm

  23. http://www.crystalinks.com/ra.html

  24. http://www.internal.schools.net.au/edu/lesson_ideas/egypt/src/mockup/images/ra_small.jpghttp://www.internal.schools.net.au/edu/lesson_ideas/egypt/src/mockup/images/ra_small.jpg

  25. Court in the Underworld http://www.nemo.nu/ibisportal/0egyptintro/1egypt/index.htm

  26. Politics

  27. Timeline • Early Dynastic:c. 3100-2700 BCE • Old Kingdom:c. 2700-2150 BCE • Middle Kingdom:c. 2050-1785 BCE • New Kingdom:c.1575-1085 BCE (Fiero 24)

  28. Theocracy • Monarch = god or god’s representative • Pharaoh = god-king

  29. Hatshepsut (ca. 1500-1447 B.C.E.) http://www.msjc.edu/art/djohnson/images/art%20101%20images/chapter%202/hatshepsut.jpg http://sangha.net/messengers/hatshepsut/images.htm

  30. http://sangha.net/messengers/hatshepsut/images.htm

  31. Hatshepsut • A woman pharaoh • Matriarch • Co-ruler with Thumosis III for 22 years.

  32. Hatshepsut http://faculty.evansville.edu/rl29/art105/img/hatshepsut_temple.jpg http://www.mykreeve.net/egypt/luxor/hatshepsut_temple/

  33. http://www.crystalinks.com/hatshepsuttemple.gif

  34. Akhenaten(ca. 1353-1336 B.C.E.) http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/saqqara/images/Saqqara/Profiles/Akhenaten.jpg http://www.egyptarchive.co.uk/html/cairo_museum_33.html

  35. Akhenaten • The revolutionary / heretic → monotheism →Worshiped the sun-god Aten. • He moved the capital from Memphis to Achenaton (now el-Amarna).

  36. Queen Nefertiti http://www.horus.ics.org.eg/en/History/Nefertiti.aspx http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/EGYPT/EGYPT.HTM

  37. Queen Nefertiti • Famous bust discovered in 1912 • Body identified in 2003?

  38. http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/nefertiti/history/history.htmlhttp://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/nefertiti/history/history.html

  39. Tutankhamon http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Egypt_GIFS/King_11537.gif http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/EGYPT/EGYPT.HTM

  40. http://www.tourism.egnet.net/culture/images/25u179.jpg

  41. http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/e/images/egypt_tut.wife.thron.lg.jpghttp://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/e/images/egypt_tut.wife.thron.lg.jpg

  42. Tutankhamon • (ca. 1336-1326 B.C.E.) • Restored the god Amon and its priesthood. • Died at 18. • Tomb discovered in 1922.

  43. Cleopatra(69-30 B.C.E.) http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/History/Egypt/05/monzolevskaya/LondonCleopatra-of-Egypt-----Coin.jpg http://www.tigerx.com/history/people/cleopatra.jpg

  44. http://www.fieldmuseum.org/cleopatra/photos/ptolemaic_th.gif

  45. Culture

  46. Pyramids • For what purposes were they built? • How were they constructed? • How long did it take to build one?

  47. The Step Pyramid http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/arth/zoser/16.gif

  48. mastabas top: exterior view bottom: cross section revealing (A) the shaft and (B) the burial chamber http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/viewer.aspx?path=hm&name=A4mastab

  49. http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/EGYPT/EGYPT.HTM

  50. Pyramids at Giza http://www.msjc.edu/art/djohnson/art101/101lecture4.html

More Related