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    Ancient Egyptian religion was a complex system made up of polytheistic beliefs and rituals. Religion played a large role in every aspect of the ancient Egyptians lives because life on earth was only seen as part of an eternal journey. In order to continue that journey after death, one needed to live a life worthy to continue. The Egyptians believed that the afterlife could only be achieved if the body of the dead was preserved, so that they could use it in the afterlife. Egyptians devoted much of

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    Ancient Egyptian society reflected many things like the pyramids that it built. They placed the pharaoh at the top, but he relied on a group of officials, priests, and nobles to administer his kingdom. All of these people were assisted with scribes, which is a writing system that was used, perhaps adapted from Mesopotamia or created independently. The eldest known hieroglyphic writings date back to the 3rd millennium B.C. though the script must have been created way before that. Egyptian scribes

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    Ancient Egyptian Eras

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    When it comes to the Egyptian history, we know of different eras that were split into several different periods according to the ruling dynasty at that time. That being said each of them had completely distinct rulers depending on who was in control at the time.. The ones that have been written about all have a vast difference between them. Some are known for the art, architect, and agriculture while others for trading of gold, ebony, ivory and even slaves. The eras that we know of are as listed

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    Ancient Egyptian Medicine

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    today to study Egyptian medical practices, and they contain information regarding the diseases, treatment, and prevention. Ancient Egyptian medicine was the most advanced of their time, for they were capable of performing surgeries, recorded a vast amount of medical knowledge on papyri, took steps to prevent disease, and treated ailments with a variety of plants and medicines. Knowledge about Egyptian medicine comes from a variety of sources, including the papyri, the writings of ancient historians,

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    Ancient Egyptian Calendars Time is one of the most important concepts to human beings. Calendars, which are organized fragments of time separated in to days, months and years allow us to keep track of our daily activities. Calendars are similar to the basic necessities of life such as food and water. It is an essential factor that dictates how we live our everyday lives. Without time being interpreted through the means of calendars we would believe that time would be infinite thus, rendering our

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    Ancient egyptians worshiped dozens of gods and goddesses. Every village had its own shrine. People say prayers and leave offerings to the gods. On feast days priests carry statues of their gods. They built huge temples on the banks of the Nile. The priests sacrificed animals to the gods. Ancient egypt tried to follow the will of the gods. If they had to make a huge decision in their lives, they would pay a scribe to write their question down for the god. They handed the request to the priest, who

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    Ancient Egyptian Beliefs

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    The Ancient Egyptians were a unique community who began in a primitive environment and proceeded to flourish into an advance people group. Their ideology was unconventional in the way that it featured more than one deity. They were economically efficient with a thriving trade system, and their family units were based on kinship marriages. Their civilization oscillated between success and failure, however at the peak was a culture that is still observable and intriguing to modern day anthropologists

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    The Ancient Egyptian society’s beliefs based their religion on polytheism which is defined as multiple ‘gods’ which were in charge of an area of life. There were up to 2,000 ‘gods and goddesses’ which controlled every aspect of the Egyptians lives. As a result the beliefs and religion belonging to the society affected the Egyptians to an ample extent. This can be observed through the values of : everyday life - , the judicial system - which was founded on religion and monitored by the religious leaders

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    Ancient Egyptian Beliefs

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    Ancient Egypt had a very interesting religion system. Based on various beliefs and rituals, then leads to a polytheistic religion (which means the belief of many gods), making that system a major part of the ancient egyptian society. Their religion was based on the relation between man and gods. The gods people believed in were present, and took charge of all the elements of everyday life. Moreover, the people tried to influence their surrounding cities and nations. It was a believed that, every

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    world religions. It contains some of the oldest religious artifacts, texts, and art that can be traced to modern religions. Egyptians were expected to depend on each other to keep balance for the will of the gods to produce the greatest amount of pleasure and happiness for humans through a harmonious existence which also enabled the gods to better perform their tasks. Many Egyptians believed that when the Gods were happy that harmony and happiness would be emitted, but when the Gods were not pleased they

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