Death on the Nile

was a far more devastating war. The BBC estimates that about 2 million Sudanese people died in the second civil war. This is about four times the amount of people that died in the first civil war. However, unlike the first civil war most of these deaths were civilians that died from starvation and dehydration. The second Sudanese Civil War lasted from 1983-2005. These wars were mainly based on freedom for the South, but the second war was also a fight over natural resources. Between the North…

is then attached using strips of linen. A board of painted wood is placed on top of the mummy before it is put into a coffin. The first coffin is then put inside a second coffin. Burial A funeral is held for the deceased and his family mourns his death. A ritual entitled the ‘Opening of the Mouth’ is performed by a priest. This ritual allows for the deceased to eat and drink again. The body and its coffin are then placed inside a stone sarcophagus in the tomb. Valuable objects and various…

Ancient Sumer In the middle east, along the great Tigris and Euphrates rivers leading to the Persian Gulf explains where the Sumerian civilization settled. The Sumer civilization were referred to as the first river valley civilization, since rivers ran through the land. The land was not considered desirable due to all the flooding, mud slides, and depositing fertile soil. Although the rivers overflown their banks and created a nuisance, the people worked together to generate and develop their…

unification of Upper and Lower Egypt into one united kingdom. The first ruler under this new system was Menes. Thirty other dynasty’s would follow. To further unify Upper and Lower Egypt Menes founded a capital city where the two met: at the apex of the Nile, where it fans out into the silt plain. This city was named “White walls” by the Egyptians but later called Memphis by the…

ARCHITECTURE: Most houses were made of block. The banks of the Nile gave the mud used to make blocks. Block creators gathered mud, added straw and water to it as required, and stepped it with their feet until it achieved the correct consistency. The blend was then put in a shape. Once formed, the blocks were expelled from the shape and left on the ground to dry in the sun. Egyptian workers would have lived in basic mud-block homes containing just a couple household items: beds, stools, boxes…

Basic Characteristics The Land Around 5,000 years ago along the River Nile for almost 30 centuries (BBC History) Nile River flooded between July to October History Hieroglyphs (Written language) decoded 2,000 years later (BBC History) Alexander the Great takes Egypt in 332 B.C (BBC History) Three Kingdoms: The Old Kingdom, The Middle Kingdom, and The New Kingdom. Information about their governments in “VI. Ancient Egyptian Government and Hierarchy” (Britannica) Egyptian Writing and Language…

old, took their throne back in Egypt. As for Ptolemy XIII, he had to leave Egypt. His death, however, was not entirely clear, but it was believed that he drowned in the Nile River.…

in history, engineer, doctor, and high priest to the Sun God, Ra at Heliopolis. And later on severed as Chancellor to Djoser. He was also first in line after the pharaoh of Upper Egypt. He was but of few commoners to be bestowed divine status after death. Because of his status, people believed he was a deity, acting like a messenger between the gods to the people and was godly himself. Imhotep’s self-constructed tomb is still unallocated despite many attempt’s to find it. There is a theory that…

International trade is an important part of today’s economics. Everything we use today from our phones, our cars, our clothes and even the food we eat is because of international trade. America is dependent on global trade; in fact they are the world’s second largest importer. Main imports are: capital goods, which is 29% and consumer goods that is 26% (tradingeconomics.com). Trade is extremely important in The United States. Imports in the US reached an all-time high of 240524 USD Million in…

Its great, massive pyramids are a classic example. Pyramids are built as tombs for Egyptian Pharaohs. Egyptians believed that after death, the soul returns back to the body so they used mummification and embalming to preserve the body. The Egyptians were famous for their experience in dissecting corpses and other medical skills that have been eventually passed onto later civilizations…