Egyptian

Today we learned about pharaohs, writing, temples, and women during this time period. Pharaohs were the all powerful, and they were worshipped as a god. Egyptians replied on a harmony and balance of the universe which they called "Maat". They had multiple wives, all routes to financial and social success were through the peace. Women could inherit money and land and divorce their husbands though only a tiny few ever wielded real political power. Egyptians also believed in an after life, and they mummified bodies to preserve them for a post-death journey. All of the souls would need to justify themselves at the point of death and be either sent to an after world paradise, or the jaws of a monster. the earliest Egyptian witting that was formed was hieroglyphs. represented religious words and most commonly adorned temples. Hieratic script was a shorthand developed by scribes and priests. The pyramids were made out of stone covered in marbles but stripped off during Muslim conquest. stone pictures and interior painted depicted humans and gods in a series of regulated poses, of ten in profile and without perspective, but were highly effective.