Did you know that the Nile is the only river in the world to flow north? It was also used for farming, bathing, and drinking water. During our month of July, it floods and in October it recedes leaving all this great soil and nutrient. The people that lived around the river were and are mainly Egyptians. They were the first people to have a calendar as far as we know. The sphinxes were one of their many creations. They have lion’s bodies and the heads of people. It is the oldest monumental statue in the world. They also had two types of pyramids. One was what they would use as tombs for pharaohs. And the other was the pyramid that showed the hierarchy of Egypt. It went like this: Pharaohs, Government officials, nobles/ priests, Soldiers, Scribes, Merchants, Artisans, Farmers, Slaves & servants. Slaves back then were not treated as badly as we treated slaves in America. Egyptians were also the first people to think that something happened to you after you die. (As in an afterlife.)
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