Tue., 8/20

Do Now—Exercise 5E:

In three or more complete sentences address one or more of the following prompts:

•What power did the Egyptians believe writing had? How did this help to preserve the pictorial form of hieroglyphs?

•What were the benefits of using papyrus as a writing material?

•Why do we know so little about the daily life of pharaohs and their officials after the invention of papyrus?

Read p. 51 – p. 54 ¶ 5.

HW—Exercise 5F:

Copy verbatim:

Enmebaraggesi – Identified as the twenty-second king after the flood, Enmebaraggesi was the king of Kish and the protector of sacred Nippur. The date of his reign, c. 2700 BC, is the first on the Sumerian king list corroborated by other evidence.