MMW 11 Lecture 6: Egypt
11 Oct 2016
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2 branches originating in ethiopia: blue nile. Empties out into mediterranean: white nile. Seasonal floods took nutrients from places with high rainfall into desert egypt: every september floods into seasonal lake/swamp, november river retreats, leaving layer of fertile mud. Domesticated grasses: need a lot of water, grow in flood-like areas, wheat, barley, rice fertile soil, allowed to be self-sufficient. Palette of narmer: unification of egypt, both crowns. Menes may have been narmer, changed name to menes when egypt was unified. Art depicts people in morbid ways: corpse-like. Priests reconsolidate power, try to erase akhenaten and aten, kill tutankhaten. When he dies there is no one fit to replace him, egyptian empire falls apart, conquiered by alexander the great 332 bce. Ptolemy i general and descendants: last of which is cleopatra. Spoke greek: cleopatra spoke egyptian, only one to do so. Fetishization of egypt began 5th century bce. Last person able to read hieroglyphics died 5th century ad.
