Chapter 3
Causes and consequences
There was an abundance( overvloed) of harvest (grain, wheat etc.)
Results? -> People ( farmers) started trading because they had plenty.
Farmers become tradesmen
Other occupations ? ( Jobs)
Artisans, Craftspeople & Officials
Water & Silt
The Nile Delta (the part where the river splits up) ends of the Mediterranean
The river overflows every August
The water leaves fertile silt on the rivers banks
During this time: farmers cannot work on their lands
When the water recedes: they can grow grain, grass and vegetables
Due to the high evaporation rate, they have to use irrigation farming
Script (Hieroglyphics)
The Nile farmers became an agrarian society – they started to live in villages
When harvest grew – villages turned into cities and the Nile region became an
urban agrarian society
Assignment: Explain how the following words are a consequence of this
development
Artisans: the good agriculture and because the started to grow things, there was
enough food
Officials: a bigger society needed a government
Status: what you have achieved
Hieroglyphics: the script, to keep account of harvest, rules and laws
Unitary sate
Under pharaoh Narmer Egypt became a unitary state: he combined upper and Lower
Egypt
Central government and the same rules everywhere
The pharaoh was an autocrat: he decided everything and had all the power in Egypt
He appointed viziers – servants/advisers
A pharaoh had enemies within AND outside of his state. (Why?)
Foreign invaders has to be kept out by a well-trained and armed army.
Causes and consequences
There was an abundance( overvloed) of harvest (grain, wheat etc.)
Results? -> People ( farmers) started trading because they had plenty.
Farmers become tradesmen
Other occupations ? ( Jobs)
Artisans, Craftspeople & Officials
Water & Silt
The Nile Delta (the part where the river splits up) ends of the Mediterranean
The river overflows every August
The water leaves fertile silt on the rivers banks
During this time: farmers cannot work on their lands
When the water recedes: they can grow grain, grass and vegetables
Due to the high evaporation rate, they have to use irrigation farming
Script (Hieroglyphics)
The Nile farmers became an agrarian society – they started to live in villages
When harvest grew – villages turned into cities and the Nile region became an
urban agrarian society
Assignment: Explain how the following words are a consequence of this
development
Artisans: the good agriculture and because the started to grow things, there was
enough food
Officials: a bigger society needed a government
Status: what you have achieved
Hieroglyphics: the script, to keep account of harvest, rules and laws
Unitary sate
Under pharaoh Narmer Egypt became a unitary state: he combined upper and Lower
Egypt
Central government and the same rules everywhere
The pharaoh was an autocrat: he decided everything and had all the power in Egypt
He appointed viziers – servants/advisers
A pharaoh had enemies within AND outside of his state. (Why?)
Foreign invaders has to be kept out by a well-trained and armed army.
