Egypt Religion

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The Egyptian’s culture was highly developed as seen in their religion, government, and approach to medicine. The Egyptians religion and they had temples , after life, and beliefs on who made the world. They also had government that had laws and social pyramids. Last but not least their approach to medicine led them to dentistry and herbs. The Egyptian religion was a major influence in their daily lives like creating religious cults, and going to temples to worship gods. The after life was very important to their religion, when someone died they had to do though proper mummification in order to go into the afterlife.The Egyptian also believed if you wanted to be rich in the afterlife or have food, clothes and any …show more content…
They used their money to purchase things such as food, houses, and clothing. The Egyptian would have money to buy thing to survive or because they wanted it. They would had coin instead paper money like us and they would have hyegraphics on the coins. The money would be made of gold , and silver .The Egyptians laws would be decided and made by the goddess of justice and the priest. The Egyptians laws were very important because you could die. If you did something so bad you could die or the priest would talk to the gods for their consequences. The god Ma'at was the God of justice , if you broke the laws this was the God they would talk to.The Egyptians had a social pyramid on the levels on their chain of worker or on how much money they had and jobs. The order of the social pyramid is pharaoh, senior official, high priest, nobles, scribes, skilled artist,craftspeople, peasants, farmers, worker, servant and slaves. This is how they judge people and the law was different for the rich people because they could just pay instead of getting a consequence. This is how everyone was talked to or treated because of their their …show more content…
The Egyptian would have spells for snake bites and also for pregnancy, childbirth, and beliefs. The Egyptians dentistry they had things like us but not so good like toothbrush ,and toothpaste. The Egyptian had a lack of mineral and vitamins that caused their teeth not to be strong. They was still cavities even though their was no sugar. The Egyptian would have very high technology stuff for their time in BC. They would also have wooden stick with a point to use on the cavities to get them out. They eat a lot of sand in any of their food and

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