Today in Mr. Schick’s class, we learned about how the Egyptians lived.  They made things without technologic tools like pyramids that are still in Egypt today.  They also made other things like boats and sail boats to go in the Nile River. Everything was centered on the Nile River meaning that it provided many elements that they needed to survive.  The Egyptians were never prepared for the Nile floods and eventually realized that it flooded at the same time every year and started to prepare for the floods.  A pharaoh was a powerful ruler who was in charge of everything.  The Egyptians relied on a harmony and balance called “maat”.  Pharaohs were married to many wives, usually their own sisters.  These wives were only meant for financial and social successes in the palace.  When a pharaoh died, they would wrap them up and try to preserve their bodies.  They also buried them with gold and other valuable things that were often dug up and stolen by thieves.  Pharaohs were portrayed as an animal head on a human body or vice versa.  Egyptians believed in an afterlife were all souls would justify themselves and be sent to an afterlife paradise or to the jaws of a monster.