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Essay On Egyptian Civilization

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Egyptian civilization

Geography:
The river Nile; it is the longest river in the world, 6,650 km. it flows through the middle of Africa and reaches till the Mediterranean Sea. When the Nile floods, it was a bless for humanity where it helped them to grow crops and also settle in villages. It has the boundaries with desert and a sea on the south, east, west and north.
The Nile floods on specific timings which are from July to September which is mainly a result of the tropical rains from Ethiopia. The highest level the river Nile gets to is in October and the lowest is between April and June. When the Nile floods it enriches the land for cultivation and crop growing which is a good benefit for farmers.
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The Egyptian concept of soul has 3 different elements:
 KA is the life force or spiritual double of the person.
 BA is represented as a human-headed bird that leaves the body when a person dies. The face of Ba was the exact likeness of that of the deceased person.
 AKH is the spirit of Re (represent-ing light), the transfigured spirit of a person that becomes one with light after death.

There was ceremony called as the weighting of the heart where the Gods used to judge if the person’s deeds are good or bad. Here the persons hear was placed on a scale, it was counterbalanced by a feather which represented the God of truth and justice. However, if the heart and the feather were equal in weight then the person would be considered as immortal and he was justified, but if the opposite happened then this person would not survive to the afterlife.
When the pharaoh passed the judgment test, he then becomes one of the Gods, where he reaches paradise and attains the

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