Ancient Egypt Topic

For the past few weeks, our intermediate classes have been learning about Ancient Egypt. This topic instantly spread to different branches, like the gods, temples and structures, and civilisations. I was excited about this topic because I read a book by Rick Riordan, The Kane Chronicles, a book that revolved around Ancient Egypt's Gods and myths. But before that happened we had to look at the First Dynasty, the dawning era of Ancient Egypt.

The Ancient Egypt was split in to two areas, Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt. But what interested me was that Upper Egypt was far more South then Lower Egypt, meaning that Lower Egypt was closer North. It intrigued me was why the Ancient Egyptians did it. the reason for this was that The River Nile's water went downstream going North. The source of the water came from a city from the South of Lower Egypt and carried downstream North exiting out into the Mediterranean Sea.

 

Egypt also had their own religion, they believed in the Afterlife. They had their own creation story, I will explain it. In the beginning there was only the Sea of Chaos, then the First God appeared, Atum. He spat out Shu and Tefnut, who gave birth to Geb and Nut. Geb and Nut were going to have five children, but Ra, the Sun God and the King of the Gods, forbade them because he thought Geb and Nut's offspring's would overthrow him as king. Ra stated that none of Geb and Nut's children was supposed to be born on any day of the year. So Geb and Nut gambled with the Moon God to create five extra days. And that's how the world of Egypt began.

I have learned a lot from my classes' Egypt Topic, and I loved learning all about it.