For more than five thousand years, famous and often mysterious civilizations thrived along the banks of the Nile. About 450BCE, a Greek historian named Herodotus called Egypt the “Gift of the Nile” because the Egyptian civilization depended on the resources of the great river.

The famous Greek historian Herodotus summarized the importance of the river to the Egyptians by saying “Egypt is the gift of the Nile”.

Herodotus, a Greek historian, nicknamed the region “the Gift of River Nile” because Ancient Egypt owed its survival to the Nile. The Kingdom depended on the annual flooding of the river which deposited silt in the region. The sediment provided the Egyptians with about three crops annually.

a. Assignment #1: “Egypt is wholly the gift of the Nile,” means that the Nile River made civilization in Egypt possible. It provided the people with means for transport, help with irrigation for farming, some food such as fish, and even created fertile soil for growing crops.

Gifts of the Nile included water, transportation, trade, papyrus, fish and other animals, and rich black soil.

In the social pyramid of ancient Egypt the pharaoh and those associated with divinity were at the top, and servants and slaves made up the bottom.

In which social class did farmers belong and what were their lives like? They were in the lowest group but the largest group. They lived in small mud brick homes with dirt floors. Families gathered on flat rooftops to socialize, play games and to sleep.

Peasants. The peasants include construction workers, farmers, and unskilled workers. Farmers were near the bottom of the social structure, but were very important.

The Hyksos were a group of nomadic people who moved into ancient Egypt from western Asia shortly after 1800 B.C.E. They settled in the fertile land of the Nile Delta. They were known for being strong farmers and fighters and were regarded for their creation and use of bronze tools and weapons.

The Hyksos were invaders that ruled Egypt from 1640 to 1570 B.C. How did Egypt fall to the Hyksos? They fell to the Hyksos because the Hyksos had a special weapon called a chariot that helped them defeat the Egyptians.

The Old Kingdom had soldiers equipped with a great variety of weapons: shields, spears, cudgels, maces, daggers, bows and arrows. Quivers and battle axes came into use before the second Intermediary Period, which was a time of revolution in the Egyptian martial arts.

The foot soldiers, also called the infantry, were armed with a variety of weapons including spears, axes, and short swords. Chariots were an important part of the Egyptian army.

A pair of Sai (three pointed truncheon) are being used as weapons. Any practitioner of Kobudo knows that the Sai is an oriental (Okinawan) weapon from the 1600’s, not an Egyptian weapon from 2000BC. Visual Proof!

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Masamune swords

Here are 10 of the sharpest and deadliest swords ever known in history.

• Honjo Masamune.
• Tizona. Source = Pinimg.
• The Flammard. Source = Thearma.
• Katana. Source = Swordsoftheeast.
• Longsword. Source = Medieval-weaponry.
• Curved Saber. Source = Liketimes.
• Tomoyuki Yamashita’s Sword. Source = Williammaloney.
• The Khopesh. Source = Tumblr.

The Holy Swords are four swords forged by God to fight against the Darkness, and later to fight against Lucifer and his demons….

Kuwabara

Ultima Weapon

Nichirin Blade

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