History Notes!
Artifact: A material object made by humans in the past that can be used by historians and archaeologists as a source.
Archaeologist: Someone who investigates the past by digging up objects left by previous civilizations.
Anachronism: A practice, event, object, or person that someone has placed outside the time period to which it belongs, for example, a wristwatch in a movie about Ancient Rome.
Evidence: Information found within a source that proves or disproves something.
Heritage: All things that we have inherited from previous generations that we value from the past, including events, traditions, influences, places, and experiences.
Sources: written and non-written items that provide information about the past.
Primary Sources: Evidence was created during the period of time being investigated, eg a diary, letter, or photograph.
Secondary Sources: Evidence that has been created after the period of time being investigated, eg a website, a film, or a textbook.
Conservation: The process of preserving something in its existing state, restoring it to its original state, or adapting it to the new user to ensure that future generations benefit from its ongoing state
Perspective: A person’s point of view or outlook on life.
Memoir: A person’s own written record of his or her own life.
Radiocarbon Dating: A method of estimating the age of an object by measuring the amount of carbon-14, a chemical left in remains such as wood, bone, charcoal, or fossils.
Embalming: The method of embalming, or treating the dead body, that the ancient Egyptians used is called mummification.
Natron: Natron or native soda, (product in ancient Egypt).
Afterlife: Belief in the underworld.
Canopic Jars: Store and preserve.
Procession: A group of individuals moving along in an orderly often ceremony way.
Professional: An overview of your work history and performance.
Mourners: A person attending a funeral.
Tomb: A chamber of a vault for the dead.
Offerings: The presenting of something to the deity.
Ancient Egypt
Canopic Jars are used to store the intestines, livers, lungs, and stomach of a preserved body.
The Egyptians built the pyramids
Pyramids were made from stone and were built on sand. They used iron hammers, chisels, and levers.
Clothing -
Linen is woven from cotton.
Women and men wore simple linen kilts.
Kids were naked from birth until the age of ten.
Women wore an empire-type long skirt.
Men kept to the simple kilts.
New kingdom women wore linen dresses.
Housing -
Sun-baked mud houses
Few windows and furniture
Flat roofs
With chests and drawers
Chairs
Tables
Work -
Farmers
Soldiers
Scribes
Priests and priestesses
Entertainment -
Hunting
Board games like Senet and Mehen
Storts like wrestling
They had festivals in honor of Gods.
Scribes
Could read and write Hieroglyphic
Recorded pharaohs orders, decisions of officials, tax owed, and paid
Prepared inscriptions in tombs and wrote letters.
In the daily life in Ancient Egypt
Children were considered to be a blessing from the gods, especially in Nobel + royal families.
Peasant life in Ancient Egypt wasn't very joyful as they had to grain wheat, wheat was a staple crop, work of plowing, planting and harvesting were still very difficult.
The Nile River was extremely important to the Ancient Egyptians way of life.
Slaves in Ancient Egypt actually performed more in the role of a servant than the actual slave.
Less fortunate slaves were forced to work in humiliating and degrading positions.
The great pyramids of Ancient Egypt were built upon slave labor
Beer was a primary drink in Ancient Egypt
Wine in Ancient Egypt, it was primarily found at the tables of the wealthy noblemen.
Sewerage is disposed of in rivers, pits, and sometimes even in the streets.
According to paintings and drawings found, Egyptians engaged in everything.
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