Episode 4 - The Gods of Egypt and the Law of Moses

<p>Episode 4 -  The Gods of Egypt, and the Law of Moses</p><p><br></p><p>[intro music]</p><p><br></p><p>Hi, my name is Clayton Mills.  Welcome to ‘A Short Walk through our Long History’ - a podcast where we look at the events of history, and try to see how those events shaped our modern world.</p><p><br></p><p><br> Welcome to Episode 4 - The Gods of Egypt, and the Law of Moses.  Today we are going to look at one of the more important, and durable, civilizations of the ancient world - Egypt…</p><p><br></p><p>While most of the world was living in tents and small towns, scraping out a meager existence, Egypt started building huge cities of brick and stone, with massive monuments and even pyramids.  Did you know that the Great Pyramid at Giza was the tallest building in the world for over 3800 years?  It shows their abilities as builders. When the pyramids were being built, most of the rest of the world was living in small villages barely surviving on subsistence farming and livestock.</p><p><br></p><p>Egypt developed into a civilization around 3000 BC, along the banks of the Nile River.  The Nile is a remarkable river - it is one of the longest rivers in the world, and it flows from south to north, which is rare.  In the south, heavy rains each year bring floods to the lands up north.  In the places where the river floods, very rich soil is deposited, making the banks of the river excellent for farming.  Most of the Nile is also easy to sail on, so boats could sail up and down the river, which made it easy to travel and trade.  Beyond the fertile lands on the banks of the Nile, there was mostly desert in both directions, which made a natural defense for Egyptian civilizations.  </p><p><br></p><p>In the Ancient world, prosperity depended on water, farmland, resources, and protection from your enemies.  Egypt had all that.  So for most of its history, Egypt was one of the strongest, most stable civilizations of the ancient world.  </p><p><br></p><p> The Egyptians developed a very sophisticated system of gover