cyber day #1 (Mr. Schick said ours isnt due until today because we dont have hic class friday)

ESSAY A: Egypt's social hierarchy was very organized and was very clear on how each person was viewed based on their daily life. You could tell back then how much someone was worth by how what they were wearing. The lowest people in Ancient Egypt were the slaves and servants. They helped the wealthy with chores and basically did all the dirty work that nobody wanted to do. Next was the farmers. The farmers raised wheat, barley, onions, and cattle. The Nile had a big impact on the farmers, they used the Nile to their benefits for crops and more.

Next is artisans which people relied on them for the artsy jobs. They would build statues and reliefs showing military things and the afterlife. Egypt's statues are big remarkable structures that would require a lot of time and effort, for example the great sphinx. Higher than the artisans were the merchants which were in charge of the money. Later over the years coinage came about. The use of coins changed Egypt a lot and mostly the use of trade. The scribes wrote scrolls and kept records of their history and told stories, they wrote hieroglyphs.

The soldiers were really high in ranking of Ancient Egypt. They would hunt and do other necessary things for their society. The soldiers had wooden weapons such as bows and arrows with bronze tips and rode in chariots. second to the most important were the priests and nobles (AKA "white kilt class" or upper class), they were viewed highly in the society of Egypt. Last but not least were the pharaohs (AKA "Lord of the two lands" and "high priests of every temple"), They were the religious and political leaders. They made rules and owned all land. So in the hierarchy of Egypt it was a very organized thought out system that flowed like the Nile River ( A little joke ;) ). Everybody had a job to do and everybody had a purpose.

ESSAY B:  Upper Egypt was a 5000 mile long strip of fertile land along the Nile. Lower Egypt was the wide land of the Nile delta, emptying into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile was very important to the Egyptians and provided them with a lot of resources. The Nile could give them water for drinking, irrigation, bathing, and transportation. The Egyptians created sail boats to go with the Nile for easy transportation, the sails were created so that they could go where they wanted to. It saved much time for other things such as building great structures.

The Nile would provide and help the Egyptians with the gain of food. The Nile always seemed to flood and change at the right times and the Egyptians benefited from it. Every July it floods and in October it would leave behind rich soil. The Egyptians would use the rich soil  to plant crops. In fact they wouldn't even plant them, they would throw them randomly and use there cattle to step on them and bury them.

Controlling the Nile required technological breakthroughs in irrigation. The Nile River flows south to north and has a delta at the top. The delta is a broad and marshy triangular area of fertile silt. The river eventually flowed into the Mediterranean sea. As you can tell the Nile was very important to the Egyptians and the land. The Nile really reminds me of that video in human geo that talks about geographic luck because the Egyptians were lucky enough to live near the Nile and progress from it.