THE EGYPTIAN CIVILISATION

By Divine Love Muwanguzi

THE HISTORY
BEHIND EGYPT

• Ancient Egypt was the most powerful

civilization in the world.
• It reigned supreme for more than 3,000
years.
• They settled around the shores of
River Nile.
• They built pyramids where pharaohs were
buried or they were buried in dug tombs.
 • Before Egypt is today, they divided and
separate.
• One was called upper Egypt and the other
was called lower egypt.
• The upper kingdom was up stream and the
CON'T lower kingdom was down stream.
• Aboout 5000 years ago, a King united those
two kingdoms to  form an empire.
• To show that both kingdoms were equal, the
king establishd a city called Memphis in
between them.
 • Farmers depended on River
Nile as a source of water for
their crops.
• Examples of crops grown
were barley, wheat and
other vegetables.
• During the year, River Nile
would flood the crops and
leave a cover of rich
brown sand called silt which
would make farmers get
a high yield this is why
Egyptians liked it when River
AGRICULUTRE Nile flooded.

DURING THEIR TIME

HOW RIVER NILE
INFLUENCED EGYPTIAN'S
DAILY ACTIVITIES
• Egyptians used mud from the riverbanks to
make bricks for building houses.
• Also,  there were papyrus weeds that were
used to make paper, baskets, ropes and
sandals.
• River Nile encouraged people to make boats.
They first used papyrus to make them and
used long poles to push it across the river.
•  Then  started using wood to make their
boats and this made them ship builders. 
• As they used the wooden boats, they
stopped using long poles to push but they
developed sails which wind blew in to push
them across the river.
 • Use of boats helped Egyptians trade with other
countries around the Mediterranean sea.
• Also, this encouraged them to become explorers.
• They traveled as far as the Eastern coast of Africa
CON'T and even across the Indian ocean.
• River Nile was so important to the Egyptians that
they made their calendar based on River Nile. They
divided the year into three seasons that are;
• When River Nile flooded.
• Growing –when the plants could grow.
• Harvest –when it was time to harvest crops.
THEIR CULTURE
The ancient Egyptians had a god for
almost everything as many as 2000
gods.
Examples like god for the
underworld(dead), god for the sun, god
for the sky, god for the deserts and god
of River Nile.
When River Nile would not flood, they
would pray to the god of the Nile to put
things back to the way they were.
They would give offerings during this
process.
Their gods could take many animals and
sometimes a person with an animal
head.
WHAT WAS THEIR • Ancient Egyptians made their
WRITING own kind of writiting called 
hieroglyphics.
• This writing was so
complicated that it required
people of high education to
write and read it.
• Just a few people managed it.
• Those people who write and
read hieroglyphics are
called scribes .
• Scribes worked for the kings
when some kind of
information was needed to be
writen.
THE END

• Hope we all learn something from this.