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This is //the group page....////please// insert //your groups// information in //the// contributor area for Super 4 //'s group pages. Go to Egypt link// for drafting setting //group// roles, choosing topics, //to update, construct// //or edit, your// Super 4s // page. Please work together in order to creat learning. Thank you for your participation // =A pyramid is a [|__structure__] whose shape is roughly that of a [|__pyramid__] in the geometric sense; that is, its outer surfaces are triangular and converge to a single point at the top. The base of a pyramid can be trilateral, quadrilateral, or any polygon shape, meaning that a pyramid has at least three outer triangular surfaces (at least four [|__faces__] including the base). The [|__square pyramid__], with square base and four triangular outer surfaces, is a common version. = = = = A pyramid's design, with the majority of the weight closer to the ground, and with the [|__pyramidion__] on top means that less material higher up on the pyramid will be pushing down from above. This distribution of weight allowed early civilizations to create stable monumental structures. = = = = Pyramids have been built by civilizations in many parts of the world. For thousands of years, the [|__largest structures__] on Earth were pyramids—first the [|__Red Pyramid__] in the [|__Dashur Necropolis__] and then the [|__Great Pyramid__] of [|__Khufu__], both of [|__Egypt__], the latter the only one of the [|__Seven Wonders of the Ancient World__] still remaining. Khufu's Pyramid is built entirely of [|__limestone__], and is considered an architectural masterpiece. It contains around 1,300,000 blocks ranging in weight from 2.5 tons to 15 tones and is built on a square base with sides measuring about 230 m (755 ft), covering 13 acres. Its four sides face the four cardinal points precisely and it has an angle of 52 degrees. The original height of the Pyramid was 146.5 m (488 ft), but today it is only 137 m (455 ft) high, the 9 m (33 ft) that is missing is due to the theft of the fine quality limestone covering, or casing stones to build houses and Mosques in Cairo. It is still the tallest pyramid. The largest pyramid by volume is the [|__Great Pyramid of Cholula__], in the [|__Mexican__] state of [|__Puebla__]. =

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Teacher Shanker

=Food= Hi ! This is Ruby !... Because [|Egypt] was very dry, and relied mostly on the [|Nile River] to water the [|crops], people in Egypt could only grow certain kinds of food. Mainly farmers grew [|wheat] and [|barley]. Egyptian bread from the [|New Kingdom](Vatican Museum, Rome) The Egyptians made the wheat into bread and into soup and porridge, and they also fermented barley to make [|beer]. In fact, some people think the real reason that the Egyptians first began growing grain was to make beer. This is an Egyptian model of beer jars, **which the Egyptians made to put in your grave when you died so you would have beer in the //[|next world].//**

Egyptian models of clay beer jars (Louvre Museum, Paris

Model of a butcher shop
 * The Egyptians also ate meat . You could go to a butcher shop and buy [|lamb] there, // just as people do today .// Only because it [|rarely rains] in Egypt, they could have the meat outside in the courtyard of the store instead of inside. Here is a model of a butcher shop, also from somebody's grave. __Can you see the different cuts of meat all laid out?__ At the very bottom there is a whole leg of [|mutton].But, like other people from the Eastern Mediterranean like the [|Jews] and the [|Phoenicians], the Egyptians would not eat [|pigs] (bacon or ham or pork or salami) because they thought pigs carried leprosy. They ate [|beef] and [|mutton]and duck and goose .**

=** For dessert, the Egyptians liked to eat __dates and [|figs]__. //This is a picture of some real Egyptian dates which were put into somebody's grave for them to eat in the [|next world],// and which were preserved in the dry climate for three thousand years until archaeologists dug them up again. **= = =