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Life in Ancient Egypt was one that involved an ordered life. ... Therefore, the most important role that religion played in Egypt was that gave people the spiritual definition and structure for the ordered life that they lived. ... “Thus there is an air of permanence about Egypt; the past is never far from the present. ... Egypt was a society whose climate never really killed anything and simply brought things back to life. “The climate of Egypt is so stable that change is cyclical and dependable: the heat of summer bakes the land, and in the fall the Nile always floods and replenishes it. ... The afterlife was thus viewed simply as an extension of earthly existence with the rebirth in the afterlife comparable to the flooding of the Nile every year that brought new life to the crops of Egypt. ... This also extended to other natural phenomenoms that occurred in Egypt such as the baking of the desert by the heat of the sun every summer. ... Along with all the other ideas of structure, Egyptian religion also gave an order for the state by which the Pharaohs ruled Egypt. ... Here was another way that religion effected and expanded the state in Egypt.
Approximate Word count = 1913
Approximate Pages = 7.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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