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Team Liberty Takes a Trip to Egypt
Students on Team Liberty
showed their amazing artistic abilities and creativity
recently while working on pyramids and ziggurats. Kids
used anything from sugar cubes and cheese-its to Styrofoam and
legos. As we learned many pyramids were the target of
robbers, so some students built in traps to catch thieves.
When we had the expected accident, which damaged a model, we
just wrote it off to the structure being ransacked by thieves.
Ask your student to pronounce King Tut's name and to tell you
a few
things about him. We enjoyed visiting Egypt.
What has four sides
and is like stairs used to worship Gods?
A Ziggurat!
What do ziggurats look like? Ziggurats are made of mud
bricks stacked on top of each other like stairs. On the
inside
there are walls that divide the ziggurat into rooms. A
ziggurat will usually have six to ten rooms.
What did people do with ziggurats? Ziggurats are used
for sacrificing people and animals to please the Gods.
People also had rituals to make a new ruler in a ziggurat.
They worshiped gods like “The Mud Brick God” because their
buildings, gates, and walls were made of mud bricks. The
people worshiped gods of the things that were important to
them.
How is a ziggurat made? It takes two to ten years to make
one. It takes that long because to make the brick, they dry
the brick, put them in the right spot, and put mud in the
openings to seal them and keep them in place. Then they make
the walls.
Now that you know what a ziggurat is, you can worship the
candy, video games, sugar, and ice cream Gods!
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