Egypt
More than 5,000 years ago, many great civilizations flourished with great power all through out portions of Egypt and Southwest Asia. Due to their astonishing land marks (many of them still erect), to there great ability to understand sciences and math, and to their religion that is still practiced by many; The Egyptian Civilization is the best known. The Nile River Valley, and the hot, vast desert that is sprinkled with a few small oasises, was once home to these humans over 5,000 yeas ago. These Egyptians built many astonishing structures while they settled along the Nile. Many of these great structures (including the pyramids), are still standing tall and proud as ever. The huge brownish p
yramids are the final resting place of the pharaohs, or kings. The Egyptians also developed geometry, and they had astonishing scientific knowledge for their time. This made the priest infuriated with Amenhoptop. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**"Egypt" Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 97 Encyclopedia. With out this, we could not know so much about them. They also had the ability to preserve bodies of the dead. Also, the Chaldeans made a calculation of the length of the year to within seven small minutes! The Egyptian religion changed many times over it's development. Parts of the religion is still practiced by many today. They used geometry to help them build the pyramids and to restore boundaries of fields after the great flood that they had once a year. This preservation is called mummification. Before Amenhoptop became pharaoh, the Egyptians believed in many gods, or polytheism. Today people flock from all over the world to see these great works of art. He did this by making the sun god, Aton, the main god. When Amenhoptop died, the proceeding pharaoh, Tutankhamen (King Tutt), changed it back to polytheism.
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