began to emerge. Hunting wasnít the major source of food the Egyptians anymore. People began to farm the Nile river valley(Dersin 8). The yearly summer floods brought fertile soil, which receded in time to have a good harvest. Most communities in the Nile River Valley had their own beliefs about death and the afterlife. Egyptians in this time believed that the next life would be much like the one they were already living(Dersin 171). It was apparent that most Egyptians believed that an afterlife existed because of the way they buried their dead. Instead burying their dead near them or even under homes, like they did as nomadic tribes, the Egyptians buried their family members away from the central village in the direction of the west. The fear of the dead was the reason for the shift in burial locations, and they buried their dead in the direction of the west because that was the direction that souls had to walk to get to the new world(Dersin 179). During this time period hieroglyphs were invented, at first their language was mostly pictographic, but slowly moved to a move phonetic written language(Dersin 8). They started to recognize the symbols that used to mean bird, to understanding them as vowel sounds. The Egyptians in this time period didnít really use their written language for recording history, but for everyday things, like for recording money exchanges and scripture(Green 7).
             The Egyptian civilization was in two parts at this time, upper Egypt, and lower Egypt.(Green 11) Upper Egypt was located in a long river valley, surround by two cliffs and deserts beyond that. The villages in the upper section were all contained within a single branch of the Nile. Southern Egypt, or the lower area, had villages dispersed along the rivers many branches. Each village had their own god, and it was usually represented by an animal(Green 12). Falconís were an early favorite god to worship, most likely because of the way it could fly so...