Egyptian+Cinderella

**Egyptian Cinderella **

__** Summary **__

The //Egyptian Cinderella// is a story about a girl named Rhodopis. She lived in Greece. She was kidnapped by pirates and was taken across the Nile River to Egypt. She was then sold as a slave to a kind and old man. She lived in his house with two other servant girls. Rhodopis had curly blonde hair and green eyes. The other servant girls had straight black hair and brown eyes. The servant girls were mean to her and they didn’t like her. Rhodopis did most of the house work. One day, Rhodopis was dancing in a room. Her master was watching her but she didn’t know that. He thought such great dancing should be done with some type of shoe. He ordered her a special pair of red and gold slippers with leather soles. One day she went outside to visit her only friend who was a hippopotamus. She got her new slippers dirty so she put them on the ground to wash them. The God, Horus, came down from the sky as a falcon. The falcon took her slipper and flew away with it. He took it to the pharaoh. The pharaoh didn’t know that the slipper was a gift. He then realized that it was a gift from the God. The pharoah immediately went out to search for the girl whose foot would fit in the slipper. No one’s foot fit in the slipper. He finally came to a little house. The other servant girls tried the slipper on even though they knew that it was Rhodopis’s. Finally Rhodopis tried the slipper on and it fit. She became the queen. __Culture__

** The country that this story is from is Egypt. In Egypt, they have a lot of cultural things. In Egypt, they speak Arabic. Instead of a president like in the United States, their ruler is a pharaoh. The pharaoh is the ruler of all of Egypt. the pharaoh's jobs were to make the laws and to govern his land. In Egypt people mostly eat fish from the Nile River. They also eat fruit and birds. The people in Egypt play soccer and they like to dance. One major celebration that they celebrate in Egypt is Christmas. They are very religious. the system of writing that they use in Egypt is called Heiroglyphics. Each letter is called a glyph. The common forms of writting that they use are pictograms which are pictures of objects, syllabic writings which are letters that stand for a syllable, and phonetic writtings which are letters that stand for a sound. The Egyptians were Polytheistic which meant that they believed in many gods. The gods were named after things in nature such as the sky, the earth, the sun, and the water. Many of the gods were pictured as half human and half animal. The bodies of the gods were said to be human and the heads to be an animal. **

__Pharaoh's Palace__ The Pharaoh’s palace in Egypt is big and elegant. It is fancy and nice. The Pharaoh lives in his palace and he has celebrations there. The palace is usually located on a large piece of land away from other houses. On the top of the palace the Egyptian flag is flown. The inside of the palace has big rooms and sometimes they have secret rooms and doors that lead into other rooms. The outside of these Egyptian palaces usually have big pillars and fancy architecture. The Pharaoh holds special meetings at his palace. In this story, the Pharaoh holds the search for the woman who owns the slipper at his palace. The Pharaoh has servants that do all the things that the Pharaoh wants them to do. They are n important part of the Pharaoh's palace. Marrying the Pharaoh is a desired thing. If a woman married the Pharaoh, she would become the ruler of Egypt along with the Pharaoh himself.