Term Papers on Ancient Egypt

Term Paper Title	Ancient Egypt
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Ancient Egypt

     Imagine living in Ancient Egypt about 3,000 B.C.  Imagine a society teeming with life and happiness.  Imagine looking around and seeing beautiful buildings, fields of crops, and the great pyramids with their white limestone façade blazing in the sun of the midday.  It would be quite the experience to have lived back then.
     The history of Egypt begins with the 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 Greeks.  It is here at Memphis that the great pyramids where built.
     The pyramids were built to house the dead pharaoh of that time.  Death was seen by the Egyptians as just the beginning of a journey to the other world.  In Egyptian society each individual believed that his eternal life was dependant on the continued existence of their king, a belief that made the building of the pyramid a concern of the entire kingdom.  Many people would be called to duty to work on the pyramids and many would go at will.  It was found that the Egyptian people actually liked working on the pyramids.  Many youths would travel down the Nile to work on the pyramids so that they could see the great city of Memphis.
Furniture and riches not to mention body parts of the dead king were buried with him in the pyramid, so that in the afterlife the king would be able to have all the comforts that he had in his life.  Wives and people of high standing in the king's court were buried beside his tomb when they died.  The queens pyramid was always much smaller than the kings.  The other wives and attendants tombs were built beside the king's pyramid but were only small rectangular tombs or mastabas.
In early tombs, the central area was the burial chamber.  The other surrounding rooms contained the king's furniture, jewelry, and other things that were owned by the King.  False doors of heavy stone represented passageways between these rooms and others.  There were no real doors because it was believed that the king, in the afterlife, would be able to move about without the help of structural passageways.
The first pyramid was the step pyramid of King Zozer built at Saquarra in 2750 B.C.  The structure of the pyramid was that of six steps all of larger size if you were to decending from the top of the pyramid.  I was 200 feet high and covered around 12,000 square meters.  The pyramid was made mostly of limestone blocks and desert clay.  Inside the pyramid Zozers burial chamber was quarried 25 meters below out of the rock be...

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