Social Studies

In Social Studies, we are learning about Egyptians and how their lifestyle was. What they did in the daily basis, what food they eat, how they managed their time, what technology they had back then, and many other cool things. We also got talked about mummifying and embalming the bodies of the dead, and what they had to go through before they could go to their afterlife.  We talked about how Osiris, the God of the underworld who determined who goes to the afterlife. What he does is he weight the heart vs. the soul using a scale, and if the heart is lighter than the soul, that means you had a good life, but if the soul is heavier that means you didn’t have a good life. 

There were a lot of things that we learned that it got me interesting, such as:

·   -      How they build the pyramid

·        - Scribes

·     -   Papyrus

·     -    Solar boats

·   -      Hieroglyphs 

But there was one thing that I really liked, that is the Zenet (S). Zenet was basically their kind of like our chess, a game board for the rich Egyptians. They used Zenet when they have spare times so they have something to do. We got to try and we actually played the game with a partner one time and my partner was Amrit, and it was really fun. I think Zenet is very interesting because it’s a game where you really have to think, just like the game, chess

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