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=Ancient Egypt New Kingdom =

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Climate  -The tempatures in the season of fall and winter ranges from 13C to 21C. -The temparture in the season of spring and summer ranges from 27C to 43C. -Every year there is a prediction of a flood from the Nile River to restore water in the soil of Egypt. - The Nile River flood gives Egypt the harvest through the year. -Egyptains had a cool breeze from the Nile River on hot days to keep them cool from the hot tempatures. This is a picture of Egypt in the winterTraveling boats in the Nile River

Geographic -Egypt is 1,001,450 square kilometers. - Egypt is the 38th-largest country in the world. -Egypt is twice the size of France, 4 times the size of the untied kingdom and if combined United States of Texas and California sizes. -Egypt has a north and a south that were ruled by kings. - Egypt also had different levels were you can live. They were the Upper Middle and Lower Middle. Map of Egypt Events and Leaders

Events  -A King called “Sethos I re-built the empire in Syria-Palestin. - Another King called “Ramesses II”, he took major building program such as temples at Thebes and Abydos. - Merenptah is the son of Ramesses II. Merenptah defeats the threat posed by a coalition of Libyans and Sea Peoples. -Ramesses III. The last great warrior King defeats the Libyans and Sea Peoples. -Ramesses XI. The kingdom is divided in half. The King rules the north, and the south is ruled from Thebes. - when Ramesses XI died his burial is the last in the Valley of the Kings.

Leaders Leaders in the n ineteenth dynasty Leaders in the t wentieth dynasty

Timeline that I made nineteenth and twentieth dynasty.

**Transportation** -Egyptians began horse breeding so they could travel more and also faster on land. - They also used one-humped camels for far away distances on land. -They used wild animals such as donkeys and mules for traveling on land but, it would take sometime to get to the location. - They would use a boat in the Nile River to travel from the north to the south ends of Egypt. -Sedan chairs also transportation for the royal class. The Sedan chair is made with 2 polls and a pillow to sit. 4 people would carry the royal person by the 2 polls. A sedan chair Weapons -The throw stick is a long and pointed knife. Egyptians used the throw stick for hunting reasons. - The spear was also used for hunting reasons but for bigger animals such as lions. The spear has a great weight. The spear is also used for fighting. - The bow and arrow it is made out of a joining a pair of antelope horns by a piece of wood. The bow and arrow was also used for hunting reasons. -The sling also known as a sling shot. Two pieces of wood, stone and string. Used for hunting and fighting. -Most of the weapons Egyptians used were for hunting and fighting. An egyptian with a throwing stick A kneif the egyptians used for hunting Energy

-The most common energy that was used was muscle power. - Also muscle power in animals. Animals used in for transporting produce and cattle for ploughing and other heavy work. -Horses were expensive to keep; they were used for pulling chariots and later for riding. - Wind energy was for ships to travel in the Nile river. The Egyptians were fortunate in that the Nile flowed from south to north. Egyptians often traveled by rowing. -Fire was needed for cooking food, casting metal, making glass, making pottery and very rarely for making bricks. The Egyptians used a lot of coal and wood to make heat. So is there is no coal or wood available nothing would be made or heated. -The heat of the sun was a very good use in the production of mud bricks. Fire and mending metalEgyptians working with muscle power Plagues and Diseases - Eye diseases from the sand and dust caused eye sight blurry, blind spots and also being blind. -Bites from small animals like scorpions caused death because of the poison. -Internal diseases such as kidney stones have also killed Egyptians. -Tuberculosis located in the spine from carrying heavy weights. - Worms in the body such as the stomach getting eating alive types of worms-guinea-worm, roundworm, and tapeworm. - In Ancient Egypt they did not have medicine that would help or even invented and money to even buy medicine. So they would live while diseases killing them. Scorpion No medicine

Art, Literature and Music Art -Egyptians would make all kinds of different art such as glass, statues and paintings.

Statues - When they used to make statues they would make it out of building mud. -They would start sculpting the statues and then make the statues after people or Kings. -Egyptians would make them and let the statue dry in the sun light. - The tools they used were there hands and sculpting tools like sticks to make different designs

Glass - Egyptians made glass with fire - Egyptians took their small glass beads and metaled the beads and made different colours of glass. -To make other glass colours egyptians would add metal into the the glass making.

Paintings - Egyptians painted on the brick walls for art and other places. - Each colour while painting had a meaning and a person. - Blue would be like heaven and would have a meaning for a person - Black would be death and someone who had died - They also painted on their coffin for good wish that the person who died would go to after life and no get eaten by a monster. - On their coffin they painted the horse eye to bring good luck and other symbols to bring good luck.

Art that was made on walls

Literature

-New Kingdom texts were called the Book of the Dead. <span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">-The Book of the Dead was written on papyrus for inclusion in tombs. - Among the most famous hymns from the period are those from the reign of Akhenaton dedicated to the sun god as sole holy being. -King Kamose at the end of the Second Intermediate period recorded the early stages of driving the Hyksos out of Egypt.

A script of there writting

<span style="font-size: 110%; color: #800000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Music -In the New Kingdom the lute and the lyre were brought in from Asia. -There was only an early form of bagpipe. - One picture during this time period indicates that there were certain rooms of the royal palace at El-Amarna that were devoted to music. - Trumpets are often depicted in military scenes. After the Conquest of Alexander the Great, the Greeks adopted some aspects of Egyptian music. -Egypt's music later was greatly influenced by the Arab tradition. <span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">

They played music together like a band

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