- Hello, I'm Doug Klepper, Douglas Klepper,
a Western Civ teacher here at Sante Fe,
you're in UH2000 if you didn't know.
And we're way early in the term,
and that I'm sure know as well.
Here we are, we're on the first really big topic,
and that topic is Egypt.
So this video, and I want to thank all the people here,
the multitude of people who are here
helping me to make this
in the video facilities here at the college.
This is designed for you to watch either all at once,
if you want to watch this five part thing
all at once, that's fine.
If you want to break it down into five parts,
that's fine too, and I'm sure you're all really good
at arithmetic, so you can do two and three,
or two two and one, whatever.
But this is the introduction, it's not gonna take that long.
As you can probably tell,
the introduction is really all about Egypt,
and here we're just gonna tell ya
how these next four parts come along.
First off, real quick, Egypt.
You can see in back of me,
Ancient Egypt was really not all that different
from modern Egypt.
The lines that you see on this map, the lines,
they are the modern borders of Egypt.
Here you can see the Libyan border over here,
and by the way, the Egyptians called
what you would call Libya, Libya, right?
And in fact, the borders here are not that different,
and really, Egyptian life today
is not all that different from Egyptian life
a long time ago.
A huge majority of the population
is centered on the Nile River Valley,
and the Nile River Valley
is sort of the reason that Egypt is.
So let's just figure out
what we're gonna do here with this little video,
and then we'll jump on and look at part two.
I guess, this is part one, right?
We're in the beginning, the first thing
we talk about is gonna be the setting.
In other words, a map, right?
Where was Egypt situated,
how did the Egyptians see themselves in their world?
What did they think of the boundaries of their world?
How did they describe these boundaries,
and who were the people who lived
in the boundary areas?
Obviously, the people of Egypt dealing with their neighbors,
this is Egyptian history, and so you'd think,
gee, Doug, I guess we talked about the history, right?
Well, not exactly.
The next thing we're gonna talk about
is an interesting topic,
and it's a good topic to talk about
way early in the term like that,
and that's called historiography.
Historiography is kind of the history of histories?
And so we'll talk about the personalities
that made modern, and Egypt is so big,
and so important, and so long,
there's such a long duration of Egyptian history
that we even have a name for them, Egyptologists.
So we'll figure out what Egyptologists were up to,
and who was the first Egyptologist.
It was either Champollion or Herodotus.
I don't know, we'll look at it.
So that will be the next thing we'll do,
after we talk about the geographic setting.
Then we'll actually talk about Egyptian history.
We're only gonna be talking about part of Egyptian history.
Yes, I know you'll be thinking, well it is 2,000 years.
But 2,000 years for Egypt ain't much.
And then we'll end this particular video
looking backwards and then looking ahead.
So, what's coming up?
Well, the Old Kingdom, for instance.
When we think about the Old Kingdom,
what we think about is pyramids, right?
So, oop, there they are, the pyramids.
We'll figure out about these pyramids.
We'll then move into what we call intermediate periods,
the Middle Kingdom, the Empire.
So there's a lot to do.
But for now, that's it for now.
We'll go ahead and begin the second part
of this presentation whenever you're ready,
and whenever I'm ready.