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pharaohs were were god the Egyptians believed
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nobles are below Pharaohs in society. Nobles are rich and powerful families. Farmers peasants and slaves made up 80% of the population
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The afterlife is the life after death.
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The Egyptian ideas about afterlife shaped their burial practices the believed the body had to be prepared for afterlife so their method was mummification and the only ones to be mummified were the elite(rich)
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The Egyptians buried their elite with treasures and in pyramids the pyramids basically are big burial sites for the wealthy engineering-the application of scientific knowledge pyramids- huge stone tombs with four triangle shaped sides that met in a point at the top Government paid slaves with grain
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Middle Kingdom began after a period of no pharaoh
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The Middle Kingdom began when the Pharaohs of the old kingdom could no longer collect taxes so a group of rich nobles then took over.
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1750 bce hyksos took over
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The hyksos took over and then ended up ended the middle kingdom
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Amos of Thebes draws out hyksos which starts new kingdom a period of power and glory
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period of power and glory
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Empire from Euphrates river to Kush
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Queen Hatsheput sent traders North and South
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1200's Ramses fought Hittites = no winner