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- 31: Egypt : The People
- Egypt : The People Approximately 32,500,000 people live in Egypt. Peasant farmers called fellahin make up over 60 percent of the population. But less than 4 percent of Egypt's land is suitable for farming. Before the leaders of the 1952 revolution introduced land reform, less than 2 percent of the landowners owned half of the land available for farming. Most of the ...
- 32: Ancient Egyptian
- ... Shu and Tefnut became the air, who stood on Geb, the earth, and held up Nut, who became the sky. Ra ruled over all. It was not uncommon for siblings to have children in ancient Egypt, and Geb and Nut had two sons, Set and Osiris, and two daughters, Isis and Nephthys. Osiris succeeded Ra as the king of the earth, helped by Isis. However, Set hated his brother out of ... mummies and carries a crook and a flail, which symbolized his power over the dead, his nature as a dying and rising god, and his command over agriculture. He wears the white crown of Upper Egypt. His personal emblem is two stalks of corn placed on top of each other. Isis Isis is the "mother goddess." She is often illustrated as suckling the child Horus. The name Isis is a Greek ... a man and holds a staff in one hand and the ankh in the other. Unlike Ra, Horus wears the double crown on his head, showing that he was king of both Upper and Lower Egypt. Ptah Ptah was illustrated as a mummified man with a shaven or bound head and held a scepter. At first he was most likely a fertility god like Min because his name has connections ...
- 33: Ancient Egyptian Religion As Seen In Art And Architecture
- ... murals, seem to be quite simple to the untrained eye, they were what most consider to be a stylized portrait of the times. J. R. Harris comments on this in his book, The Legacy of Egypt: ³Purported lack of grace and charm, unnatural stylization--these were not shortcomings, but essential manifestations of [Ancient Egyptian art¹s] specific nature² (194). In addition to the natural talents of the Ancient Egyptians, another explanation ... culture was the construction of elaborate, and sometimes enormous, works of architecture. One of the main reasons for today¹s knowledge about these edifices is the fact that many of them are still towering over Egypt. This is due to the great care that the Ancient Egyptian populace took in constructing the temples, tombs, and halls of their period. In addition, these people were most definitely skilled in building techniques, the arts, and mathematics. ³In construction, the perfect knowledge of geometry of the architects is fully demonstrated² (Howell 41). Moreover, it is believed that not only the architects of Ancient Egypt worked on these masterpieces, but thousands of others also collaborated in the effort. Ancient Egypt¹s buildings were, in their time, the most remarkable landmarks known to man. Also, the ability of the architects ...
- 34: Cleopatra VII
- Cleopatra VII Cleopatra was the last queen of Egypt. She was born in 69 BC and died in 30 BC by committing suicide. She had two husbands, Ptolemy XIII and Mark Antony. She also had an affair with Caesar. In spite of all her love affairs and the wars during her reign, some people still think Cleopatra was the best queen of Egypt. Cleopatra had excellent military back-up at the beginning of her life. First of all, Cleopatra was a Ptolemy and the Ptolemies had ruled for over 200 years! How? The answer to that is power. The Ptolemies started with Alexander the Great the person that Alexandria was named after. While Alexander was dying, he muttered "To the strongest,"(He meant Egypt goes to the strongest.) or maybe he didn't say that, but the generals said that he did. Each of the generals boasted about how strong they were, all wanting to rule Egypt, the ...
- 35: The Arab's Responsibility For The Arab-Israel Conflict
- ... Israel in 1948, there have been four major Arab-Israeli wars (1947-49 The First Palestine War, 1956 Suez War, 1967 Six Day War, and 1973 Yom Kippur) and finally 1993 a peace treaty between Egypt and Israeli and finally in 1994 the fifty year old war ended. However there's the question of "which side has the greater responsibility for the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East? In 1917 ... Jerusalem. By April, Haganah, the principal Jewish military group, seized the offensive, scoring victories against the Arab Liberation Army in northern Palestine, Jaffa, and Jerusalem. During the 1950s there was considerable tension between Israel and Egypt, which, under President Nasser, had become a leader in the Arab world. His nationalization of the Suez Canal 1956 provided an opportunity for Israel with Britain and France, to attack Egypt and occupy a part of Palestine that Egypt had controlled since 1949, the Gaza Strip, from which Israel was forced by UN and US pressure to withdraw in 1957. Great Britain and France ostensibly ...
- 36: Ancient Egyptian Religion As S
- ... murals, seem to be quite simple to the untrained eye, they were what most consider to be a stylized portrait of the times. J. R. Harris comments on this in his book, The Legacy of Egypt: ³Purported lack of grace and charm, unnatural stylization--these were not shortcomings, but essential manifestations of [Ancient Egyptian art¹s] specific nature² (194). In addition to the natural talents of the Ancient Egyptians, another explanation ... culture was the construction of elaborate, and sometimes enormous, works of architecture. One of the main reasons for today¹s knowledge about these edifices is the fact that many of them are still towering over Egypt. This is due to the great care that the Ancient Egyptian populace took in constructing the temples, tombs, and halls of their period. In addition, these people were most definitely skilled in building techniques, the arts, and mathematics. ³In construction, the perfect knowledge of geometry of the architects is fully demonstrated² (Howell 41). Moreover, it is believed that not only the architects of Ancient Egypt worked on these masterpieces, but thousands of others also collaborated in the effort. Ancient Egypt¹s buildings were, in their time, the most remarkable landmarks known to man. Also, the ability of the architects ...
- 37: The Pyramids of Egypt
- The Pyramids of Egypt Eleven years ago my family and I went on vacation to Egypt. The Sphinx, the three Pyramids of Giza, and the Step Pyramid of Pharaoh Zoser towered more than two hundred feet above the golden Egyptian sands like mountains. The sight took my breath away, and that ... To a three foot tall, six year old the buildings seemed to be as big as the world. I nearly broke my neck when I tried to glance at the top. When the people of Egypt first looked upon these colossal monuments, they probably trembled just as I did. Now that I am older the sight not only amazes, but the craftsmanship that was used to build these wonderful gravestones, ...
- 38: Writings of Confucius, Hammurabi's Code Of Laws, And Egypt's Book Of The Dead
- Writings of Confucius, Hammurabi's Code Of Laws, And Egypt's Book Of The Dead Three of the most famous writings from ancient civilizations are the writings of Confucius, Hammurabi's code of laws, and Egypt's Book of the Dead. At first, they seem very different, they're from different times, regions, and religions, but they all offer a peek into what values ancient people considered important. One of the ... is fair that "If he has broken the limb of a patrician, his limb shall be broken" It's like in the Bible "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth." In Egypt, in the Book of the Dead, a man couldn't proceed into the after life unless he was found innocent of any wrong doing on Earth. In Confucius' writings, he never actually says the ...
- 39: EGYPT
- When most people mention Ancient Egypt the first thing that comes to mind is the Pyramids. To construct such monuments required a mastery of art, architecture and social organization that few cultures would ever rival. The pyramids are said to have built Egypt by being the force that knit together the kingdom's economy. Their creations were so substantial, that the sight of these vast pyramids would take your breath away. Today, the valley of the Nile has an open air museum so people can witness these grand monuments. Obsessed with the afterlife, Egypt's rulers of 4,500 years ago glorified themselves in stone, thereby laying the foundation of the first great nation-state. A Pyramid is an enormous machine that helps the king go through the ...
- 40: Ancient Egypt Gods & Goddesses
- Ancient Egypt Gods & Goddesses Isis Isis (Also known as As, Ast or Est) Wife of Osiris, mother of Horus, sister of Set and Nephteys. Daughter of Nuit and Geb. Her name translates to 'throne'. She was the first Egyptian goddess born to live on Earth. Isis has been known as the goddess of women and children and the mother of all living things. She traveled around Egypt teaching women the skills of weaving, cooking and raising children. She also helped during the process of childbirth. Isis was traveling when she heard that her beloved husband Osiris was dead. She was horrified when ... She wandered the country in search of the body of Osiris while pulling out her hair, throwing dirt on herself and beating her chest. These gestures became the classic signs of feminine mourning in Ancient Egypt. Once she found the corpse of her husband she began working her magick to revive him. Isis managed to restore enough life to Osiris to conceive Horus. Soon after Set got word that Osiris ...
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