p3ch3culture

Name:Becky Hoffman

 * **Theme** || **How does this theme apply to your civilization?** ||
 * Religions || * Egyptians were not set on just one religion. Their belifes consisted of mulitple gods for mulitiple purposes.
 * According to legend the pharaohs were capable of talking to the gods. Peasants considered them gods on earth. They were son's from the God of the sun. ||
 * Belief Systems, philosophies, and ideologies || * Egyptians strongly belived in an afterlife.
 * The process of mumification helped insure that no matter what they did in there physical lilfe, they cleansing process helped them go to a proper after life.
 * The pharoah's royal tombs (pyramids) also made it certain that their most prized posetions and other miscellaneous items went with them. ||
 * Science and Technology || * Nile societies were much slower than the mesopotamian societies when it came to science, discoveries, tools, weapons, and technology. ||
 * The arts and architecture || * As a result of the pharoahs being treated as gods on earth, they were built royal tombs (a.k.a. pyramids).
 * The largest pyramid was Khufu.
 * Khufu consits of 2,300,000 limestone blocks.
 * Khufu took 20 years to build.
 * It was only during the new kingdom that pharoahs did not use pyramids as their tombs. ||