Time Travel To Ancient Egypt Essay

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Jaime Pacheco Professor Witthaus Humanities 1111 10 December 2017 Time Travel to Ancient Egypt If I had the opportunity to select and go to one of the many civilizations that we have studied this semester, I’d time travel to ancient Egypt. It was a simpler time, you would work to survive and were usually paid in grain or seeds. Everyone bartered for what they needed. It would be nice to get away from all this social media that we have today, from Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Vine, to Instagram. Walking around campus, or even just walking around in general, most people I see have their faces glued to their electronics. We use social media to meet up with old friends or trying to rekindle an old relationship. Even when people want to find a date they use …show more content…

Face to face interactions are starting to become a thing of the past. Other than the appeal of no social media there are plenty of other reasons why I would go to ancient Egypt. Even though I am complaining about the way society is now, ancient Egypt also has a lot of similarities to the way we live now. For instance, they loved to dance, have big feasts and they were very fashionable, which I love by the way, they would play games, again face to face interactions not over a computer screen or television. I’m not sure how I would feel about their Gods because I am Christian and I do not believe Catholicism was around until the Roman era. Another reason I chose ancient Egypt was because of the Architecture, since I plan on taking architectural design I have an interest in all architecture. Ancient Egypt had art, sports and even some form of technology.

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