More Egypt

Slaves were in charge of helping out the wealthy, and they raised wheat, barley, lentil and onions.  The artisans made lots of stuff, from kitchen-ware to battle attire.  People bartered things, and soon it turned into coins representing things.  The Egyptians soon became really curious about they body.  They knew what the lungs and heart were, as well as their function.  But they didn't know much about the head/brain much at all.  They just thought it took place in the chest area.  Pharaohs were the leaders politically and religiously.  Hatshepsut was the first woman pharaoh and Cleopatra VII was the last (woman and pharaoh in general).  The temples used to be all shiny and pretty.  The temple of Amon is still the worlds largest religious building.  The Egyptians also built sailboats!  Paypyrus was paper back then that they made out of the Nile's supplies.  Gods and Goddesses in their time controlled their lives and were half human, half animal.  There are over 2000 of them!  Maat means harmony, basically the same thing as Nirvana.  Good to know: Woman could divorce her husband, and she could inherit land and money.  Something nasty to know: Pharaohs would sometimes marry their sisters.  Hieroglyphs and Hieratic were types of writing, hieroglyphs was more drawing, and hieratic was more actual letters.  We watched a mummification process thing and it was very interesting.  It took them about 40 days to dry out the body with salt.