Egypt Culture
By: Drew, Tyler, and Bianca
Introduction
Culture is the way that a group of people create customs. Culture is how people live and what they believe in. Culture also enables people from a specific place to share traditions and experiences common to each other. Culture is important because it gives people a sense of belonging. Culture can impact religion, as in the case of the Egyptians who were told that their leaders were gods, because of this the Egyptian people worshiped their leaders as they were taught to do. Culture also impacted their writing because they were told to record what happen in their civilization. Culture impacted the architecture because the builders of the pyramids came together as a society to create an architectural achievement developing and construction of the pyramids to bury their pharaohs a queens, about eighty of which still exist today. Culture impacted the innovations of the civilization because Egypt had to make goods with the knowledge of what they had around them. Lastly, culture impacted the achievements of the civilization, if the civilization didn't belief that people had afterlife then they wouldn't have to make pyramids or know how to do mummification. The culture developments during the River Valley civilizations made the largest impact on the people.
Egypt picture gallery
The Great Pyraimds
The Nile River
Mumification
The gods of Egypt
Papyrus
Social class order
Hieroglyphics
Mud bricks
Egyptian Clothing
Religion
Believed that there was an afterlife and that they live with Osiris in the afterlife. So when people were buried, they were buried with things thought used for daily life.
Wealthy people had gardens for their favorite god/goddess.
Their gods were thought to have half human half animal form or all human form, were also thought to have feelings.
Writing in Egypt
Architecture
Innovations
Achievements
Over time the Egyptians pyramids became more elaborate and beautiful. The pyramids were built for the purpose to be tombs. The pyramids were a place that the dead held their bodies and items important to them. A pyramid was easy for thieves to steal things, so wealthy people had their pyramids more complex so that no one could find their way.
Mummification was a big part of their achievements. They invented mummification because they thought that there was an afterlife they lived with their god Osiris. In order to live with him their bodies needed to be preserved. Pharaohs still wanted to be wealthy and powerful in their afterlife, so they were buried with their finest things. The wealthier you were the more things you were buried with.
- Written language was a big part of achievements because it helped them to record history. They wrote on papyrus and clay tablets. They also created the Rosetta stone, the clay tablet that has three different languages written. Their written language was made up of symbols or hieroglyphics. The hieroglyphics helped make trading easier.
Conclusion
Culture impacted the Egyptian Civilization the people were directly impacted by culture. Culture impacted daily life in five different ways, which are religion, writing, architecture, innovations, and achievements. First religion impacted Egyptian culture by what people believe and what people act like because of their beliefs. Second writing impacted Egyptian culture because the language in Egypt was using symbols to tell what happened in their life. Third architecture impacted culture in Egypt by making jobs and making new innovations. Next innovations impacted culture in Egypt because it helped the civilization advance. Lastly achievement impacted culture in Egypt by winning fights and wars against the bad people. Culture impacted the Egyptian civilization in those five ways.