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2.3 Expanding a young empire

The funerary mask of the young pharaoh Tutankhamun

(reigned from 1334-1325 BC)

2.3 Uitbreiding van een jong rijk

First cities

• Started off as markets
  
• Farmers would sell their surplus
• Craftsmen started living here to sell their goods
• Agricultural-urban society  = most people work as farmers but some people specialise in other jobs and live in cities. 

First cities started as markets where farmers would sell their surplus. Craftsman started living here as well to sell their goods.

Drag in the correct order.

Zet in de juiste volgorde

Invention of Agriculture

Farmers selling food on markets

Cities start around markets

Farmers use fertile floods to grow their crops

Which of these is not an effect of the agricultural surplus?

Welk van deze antwoorden is geen gevolg van het landbouwoverschot

1. Farmers start selling products on markets
2. People begin to specialise in other crafts
3. People start living around the first markets
4. Farmers use irrigation to spread water to dry areas

Why did many craftsman live the first cities?

Waarom leefden veel van de ambachtslieden in eerste steden?

Goal of the lesson

Goal

• Understand how Egypt became a state with one ruler
• Understand how Egyptian society was organized

Doel:

Begrijpen hoe Egypte een staat werd met één leider.

Begrijpen hoe de Egyptische samenleving was georganiseerd.

2.3 Expanding a young empire

The famous queen Neferititi 

(Maybe also pharaoh from 1334-1332 BC)

2.3 Uitbreiding van een jong rijk

Kingdom of Lower Egypt

Kingdom of Upper Egypt

First pharaohs

• First Egypt was two kingdoms = upper and lower Egypt
  
• King Narmer conquered both, and made them one
• He was the first pharaoh

Take a guess. How many pharaohs have ruled over Egypt?

0300

Correct answer= around 170

-163 male

-7 female

Pharaoh

• Powerful kings of Egypt
• Dynasties = families that ruled over Egypt for a period in time

Pharaoh

• 3000 years
• 33 dynasties
• 170 pharaohs

Overview of the most important Egyptian gods

God of air 

Nickname: The hidden one

Guide to the underworld

Protector of graves

God of kingship

Healing and protection

God of the sun

Ruler of sky, earth and underworld

God of the moon,

wisdom, writing, art

Lord of the dead and of rebirth

Devine mother of the pharaoh

Wife and helper of Osiris

God of deserts, storm, disorder, violence and foreigners

Warrior godess and goddess of medicine

Creator god, god of crafsmen and architects

Eye or Ra (morther of Ra)

She also helped souls to cross the underworld

Protector of mummies.

Goddess of mourning, magic, embalming and beer

God-Kings

•  Egyptians are subjects and they must obey him and his officials
• Egyptians believed that the Pharaoh was a living God, sent to earth to rule

Read Egyptian Society: Layer for layer

Read the text and draw the pyramid in your notebook.

ZS for 5 minutes.

Name two things you learned today

Goal of the lesson

Goal

• Understand how Egypt became an united state with one ruler.
• Understand how Egyptian society was structured.

Doel:

Begrijpen hoe Egypte een staat werd met één leider.

Begrijpen hoe de Egyptische samenleving was georganiseerd.

Drag to the correct place.

Fertile floods

First cities

Surplus of food

First cultures