How do natural features such as rivers, lakes, and mountains hep unite people or keep them isolated?

Natural features can keep people united but also isolated. Rivers oftentimes unite people, because they can trade and travel down the river to establish communication with other town or villages along the river. But a river can also isolate people, if they don't have boats or transportation to get over the river. Lakes can also act like rivers you can get to the other towns and villages and communicate and unite. But people can also unite walking around the lake which is also and option. Mountains mostly isolate people especially if there tall. It takes time to climb onto a mountain or over it, mountains can also be very dangerous and treacherous.

Traveling Down the Nile river

I am traveling down the Nile river in a Greek trading Vessel. To the right and left side of me I can see small wooden homemade Egyptian fishing ships pushing there way through the strong currents of the Ferocious Nile river. Suddenly on the right side a small town appears the streets are bustling, and ships take turns entering and leaving the harbor. I can smell the pleasant aroma of fresh fish being unloaded off the small Egyptian vessels. I hear fisherman at the fish market debating the prices for the fish they proudly caught with the unsatisfied merchants, Who think the fishermen went mad. I can feel the afternoon breeze pushing at my back as we sail further on. Inside I feel intrigued by this ancient civilization, but at the other hand satisfied that I visited great river.

Answers to Questions

1. There is a relationship between mummification and natural environment. Mummification can happen through the environment, if a person dies near a bog or airless area there body will stay untouched or just partially decayed not fully.

2. Some of the reasons people have been mummified is ancient people believed that mummies have a much better chance in there afterlife, they believed mummified people will live a rich and prosperous life, and be powerful in there afterlife.

Defining Words

The words I didn't know were

Cadavers: A corpse or lich, is a dead human body

Societal Outcasts: A person who is rejected, and sometimes isolated

Bogs: is a wetland that accumulates acidic peat

Transgressions: a crime usually created by social or economic boundary

Cryonics: A low temperature Preservation of humans and animals

Mummy: An ancient cadaver whose soft tissues has partially or wholly resisted decay

1. Mummies have been part on parts of the Andes, China, Europe and Egypt.

2. Mummies were usually found in wet and damp places such as bogs, you can also find mummies on really high altitudes such as the Andes, Some mummies are found indoors such as the Pyramids in Egypt.

3. Ancient Egyptians preserved the dead by wrapping the in linen and then putting them in a sarcophagus.

4. Ancient Egyptians took a lot of care to embalm the dead because they believed that the way there buried that's how there afterlife I going to look like, If they were buried with lots of treasures, they will be rich and powerful in there afterlife.

5. Wet areas such as bogs attentionality mummify people, also places without a lot of oxygen.

6. Some mummies were intentionally mummified in order to life an afterlife, others were executed and then mummified.

Questions

1. Does mummification have to do with religion ?
2. Do certain areas of the same religion mummify people while others don't?
3. Do all culture's that believe in afterlife mummify?
4. If a culture mummify's do they mummify every single person?
5. Does your mummification depend on your place in the community?

Phoenicians Project

This is are ancient empires poster about Phoenicia.