Today in west civ we had a sub. our assignment was to read the next section in our book about Egypt. i only got a few pages in but i did learns some new things like how the Egyptians civilization was more stable then Mesopotamian civilizations. Political and sectional conflicts were less likely to split the union and there were very few foreign invaders to threaten them. the civilization was split into "two lands", lower and upper Egypt but it was unified around 3100BC. The rulers of this united civilization were called pharaohs.They were thought of as basically a god in human form. They had great power but also a great responsibility for keeping stability within the state. Stability of the state, to the Egyptians, equaled stability of everything such as the right time for the rivers to be flooding and things like that. The pharaoh had a primary wife and then many other wives. his primary wife would usually be a sister or half sister. the other wives were usually from high up families. women were quite highly looked upon in egypt. they had many of the same rights that men had such as being able to divorce their husbands. They never got in positions of power but they were well looked after and respected.
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