2.3 Expanding a young empire

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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

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 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.

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

Two kingdoms

• Around 3100 BC Egypt was devided in two kingdoms: Upper and Lower Egypt.
• King Narmer of Upper Egypt used his armies to conquer Lower Egypt and unite Egypt.

Did you know that the first king of Egypt was killed by a Hippopotamus

Twee koninkrijken

-Rond 3100 v. Chr. was Egypte verdeeld in twee koninkrijken: Boven en Beneden Egypte.

-Koning Narmer van Boven Egypte gebruikt zijn leger om Beneden Egypte te veroveren en Egypte te verenigen.

Pharaoh

• = Powerfull king of Egypt.
• Dynasties = families that ruled over Egypt for a period.
• 3000 years
• 33 dynasties
• 170 pharaohs 

The famous Cleopatra VII. Last of the 170 pharaohs of Egypt

Farao

=Machtige koning van Egypte

Dynastiën = families die regeerden over Egypte voor een periode.

-3000 jaar

-33 dynastiën

-170 farao's

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-king

• Egyptians are subjects and must obey him and his officials.
• Egyptians believed that Pharaoh was a god: the living Horus

God-koning

-Egyptenaren zijn onderdanen en moeten hem (de farao) en zijn ambtenaren gehoorzamen.

-Egyptenaren geloodfen dat de farao een god was. De levende god Horus.

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.