Egypt

Notes: Pg 83: Farming began about 2,000 years ago witch bagan ikn Catle Huyuk. The nile is the worlds longest river. The nile is 4,000 miles long! The nile went from Lower egypt to upper eqypt. Pg 84: the land began to dry out in October after a long flood. Farmers were able to plant there crops again. The farmers were able to use irrigation systems which ferterlize the crops and land which was better for the crops. The fields were riped with vegetables.

Pg 92+93:The writeing system in Egypt is called hieroglyphics, which is a writeing system with about 800 picture signs which they called hieroglyphs. Papyrus is a reed plant that grows along the nile, which is pressed together to form a kind of paper.

Pg 94: The economy was a type of country management and uses resources to make goods and services, and had a surplus of crops.

Pg 99: Hatsheput which was the first woman ruler in history. she gave egypt a long period of peace and wealth through trade. she also organized trading expeditions went to sound to Punt. lasted two years and brought gold, ebony, incense, perfume, ivory, leopard skins, and even live monkeys for private zoo.

Pg 100: Egyption priests also knew about mathematics. they use there skills to solve problems, they used it to design there churchs. they also use it to design pyramids. Science uise they suudyed the stars and the moon they only didint study 1 day each mounth