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mummies are specially treated bodies wrapped in cloth.only elite people of wealth and power could be mummified. The method embalming is the process to preserve the bodies and to keep them from decaying Egyptians preserve bodied as mummies.
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The Egyptians wanted to make sure the pharaohs tomb of big and might. They also made pyramid texts/spells.
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pharaohs could not collect enough taxes to keep up with their expenses.the nobles used their government positions to take power from pharaohs.
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Pharaohs were gods the Egyptians believed
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The nobles are below the pharaoh in society. Nobles are rich powerful families. Farmers,peasants,and slaves made up 80% of the population.
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the Egyptians believed that the afterlife was a happy place. the Egyptians belief in the afterlife stemmed from their idea of ka or a persons life force. the Egyptians believed when a person died his or her ka left the body and became the spirit.
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the middle kingdom began after a period of no pharaoh,
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about 2200 BC the old kingdom had fallen for the next 160 years local nobles ruled much of Egypt,during this period.the kingdom had no central ruler.
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Sina peninsula had turquoise and copper.Trade routes developed green hat she put sent trades north and South .Impressive movement magnificent temples.
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empire took over hyksos,syria,ad kush. empire from Euphrates river to kush.
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ahmose of thieves drove out hyksos . The new kingdom was called the period of power and glory.
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Ramses fought Hittites. Egyptians fought Hittites,sea peoples,and survived.100 Egypt fell into period of violence never returns.
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towards the end of the middle kingdom Egypt began to fall into disorder once again. Around 1750 a group from south west Asia called Hyksos
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Pyramids are huge,stone tombs with four triangle shaped sides that met in a point on top.the Egyptians built the first pyramid during the old kingdom.the engineering process of the pyramids took 2 million limestone blocks.the government would pay the slaves with grain.