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Ancient Egypt How To Manual "First, they remove the brain through the nostrils with a curved iron implement, getting some of it out like this and the rest by pouring in solvents. Then they cut open the side of the corpse with a sharp Ethiopian stone, remove the intestines, and wash out the belly, cleaning it with palm wine and again with pounded aromatics. They fill up the body with pure crushed myrrh, cassia and other herbs (except frankincense) and sow it up again. After this, they pickle the body in natrum, [salt] hiding it away for seventy days, the longest time possible. After the seventy days, they wash the body and wrap it up completely in cut bandages of linen muslin, smearing it with gum which the Egyptians use instead of glue." 1380L
Sack of Constantinopple Eyewitness accounts: "Nothing will ever equal the horror of this harrowing and terrible spectacle."
Become Sociologists • "Women are to be led and to follow others.“ • "Disorder is not sent down by Heaven, it is produced by women.“ • "Woman's greatest duty is to produce a son." • "A woman ruler is like a hen crowing." • "A husband can marry twice, but his wife must never remarry." • A sociology study: • "If woman's greatest duty is to produce a son...then what are the effects?"
Primary Source Assessment Directions: Examine the photograph and answer the questions that follow. Source: The following photograph was taken in Georgia in 1903. "Cabins where slaves were raised for market-- The famous Hermitage, Savannah, Georgia," Underwood & Underwood Publishers, 1903. Question 1: How might the photograph be useful as evidence of the living conditions of slaves? Question 2: What about this source might make it less useful as evidence of the living conditions of slaves?