1º de ESO Geography and History
Unit GREECE - Index
GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION
ECONOMY
SOCIETY
GOVERNMENT
WRITING and CULTURE
RELIGION
ART
MIND MAPS
Mind map |
GLOSSARY
Civil Servant
Colossal (Arte)
Column
Grave goods
Lintel
Scribe
Surplus
EXERCISES
LINKS
KEYWORDS
USUAL PHRASES
Unit THE EARTH PLANET
Unit RELIEF
Unit THE CLIMATE
Unit PREHISTORIC LIFE
Unit EGYPT
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Egyptian religion was polytheistic, that is, they believed in various gods and goddesses, not in just one. |
Isis y Osiris
Isis and Orus
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The deities had a half human (anthropomorphic) appearance, half animal (zoomorphic). They had several rituals, the most important of which was dedicated to favoring the wishes of the rising of the Nile River, which was very necessary for agriculture.
At the service of religion, we could find priests, who had great power, accumulating great wealth in their temples, and they were owners of a large part of the country's land.
Sarcophagus
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The Egyptians thought that there was life after death, or in other words, an
Canopics jarr |
afterlife. The dead were buried in tombs (pyramids, mastabas, or hypogeum), some of which had rich graves goods. Thanks to that, we know a great deal about their civilization. |
A product of the belief in the afterlife was mummification, or the preparation of the dead for the next life. The bodies were subjectedto a long process during which their intestineswere extracted (and deposited in glasses called “canopic jars”) and, through the coated in different substances, they were carefully wrapped in bandage to
preserve the appearance they had when they were alive.
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