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=﻿__Egypt__= Growing up in Egypt was hard. Most babies didn't live past there first year, and if they did they were seen as a blessing. When they turned five boys and girls were seperated in their learning experiences. Wealthy boys went to school and poor boys began helping wuth the mens job in the field or whatever job their father had. At the ages of 12 to 16 they were considered grown and could begin to work for themselves. Men married around the ages of 17 to 20. They could take more thatn one wife as long as they could support them and their children. Girls were different from boys, their entire life was centered around the home and family. At the age of four girls would begin to learn from their mothers how to maintain the house. They would learn how sew, make food, keep house, and countless other household chores. Girls were also expected to marry after they began menstruating around 12 to 13. They were also expected to have a child within the first year of marriage. The average life span in Egypt was aroubd 30 years.

They lived in houses made of mud, straw, and pebbles. After being mixed together they would be set out in the sun to dry and harden into bricks. Then they would make there houses out of them. After one crumbles they would build a new one right on top of the old one. This caused, over time, for hills to form.

Their diets consisted of a vast amount of fish, grains, vegetables and fruits. They enjoy beef and other red meats but the common people couldn't afford them. The also used grains to make bread. When they would make their bread they would put honey, nuts, fruits, and oils into the bread.

As in Mesopotamia, the development of writing was on of they keys to the growth of Egyptian civilization. Simple pictographs were the earliest form of writting in Egypt, but scribes quickly developed a more flexible writing system called hieroglyphics. this term comes from the greek words __//hieros//__ and __//gluph//__, meaning "sacred carving."

Animal worship was part of the ancient Egyptian culture. Many different kinds of animals were respected, butthe cat was a sacred and respected beast. It was in Egypt that the cat became domesticated 4,000 years ago. Slowly the cat became a god. Cats were used to ward of evil spirits. Statues were placed outside the homes to protect them. When a cat died the former ownerwould go into deep mourning and shave their eyebrows as a sign of grief. If a cat was killed by a human either intentionally or untentionally that human would be sentenced to death.

Egypt was ruled by a king called a pharaoh. Pyrimids were built as tombs or buial places for pharaohs. The bodies of the pharaohs and other elite Egyptians were preserved by mummification, wich involves embalming and drying the corps to prevent it from decaying. The ancient Egyptians believed in afterlife, so it was important to protect the bodies and keep them safe. In order to keep the bodies safe, the inside of the pyrimids, were like mazes with secret doors and dead end passages. The pharaoh would be burried near the bottom or evan underground. Other rooms contained things like jewelry and furniture that the people might want in the after life. The rule of pharaohs official ended in 31 B.C. when egypt fell to the Roman Empire