Contributions And Legacies to Ancient Egypt
There are many contributions and legacies to ancient Egypt. You may not realize it from the looks but Egypt is way more then just mummies.
The Egyptians are the people that found the way to make medicine. Serquet seemed to know the right spells and remedies. (Serquet was believed to be the "god" of medicine) They believed sickness was the work of the gods, or evil spirits. They used plants to make medicine. All of the remedies were gathered from nature. Believe it or not they even had pain medication. They only knew all this because disease was very common at this time.
Also they found their own decimal system. Without the Egyptians their wouldn't be any such thing as decimals. The amount of zeros showed symbols, or how powerful you are. If you had six zeros that meant a god. So, if you had 5 zeros you would be considered very wealthy. If you had 1 zero that meant you were a slave.
They also had pyramids. These amazing things are more then just structures. They held the key to the structure of the social pyramid. They used 5,000 workers to build these amazing pyramids. They would work for 3-4 months before going home to there family. Today there has been 153 different pyramids discovered. The largest is the great pyramid of Giza.
Believe it or not there was a god to mummification. His name was Anubus and had the body of a human and the head of a jackal. They buried the dead in pots in the desert. But, the hot sun dried out the bodies quickly. So they began wrapping people in linen. This is considered the mummification process.
The Egyptians are the people that found the way to make medicine. Serquet seemed to know the right spells and remedies. (Serquet was believed to be the "god" of medicine) They believed sickness was the work of the gods, or evil spirits. They used plants to make medicine. All of the remedies were gathered from nature. Believe it or not they even had pain medication. They only knew all this because disease was very common at this time.
Also they found their own decimal system. Without the Egyptians their wouldn't be any such thing as decimals. The amount of zeros showed symbols, or how powerful you are. If you had six zeros that meant a god. So, if you had 5 zeros you would be considered very wealthy. If you had 1 zero that meant you were a slave.
They also had pyramids. These amazing things are more then just structures. They held the key to the structure of the social pyramid. They used 5,000 workers to build these amazing pyramids. They would work for 3-4 months before going home to there family. Today there has been 153 different pyramids discovered. The largest is the great pyramid of Giza.
Believe it or not there was a god to mummification. His name was Anubus and had the body of a human and the head of a jackal. They buried the dead in pots in the desert. But, the hot sun dried out the bodies quickly. So they began wrapping people in linen. This is considered the mummification process.