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​ The Egyptian Cinderella

Once upon a time there was a girl kidnapped from Greece and brought to Egypt, this girl’s name is Rhodopis. When she got to Egypt she was sold as a slave. Rhodopis was a beautiful girl with green eyes, blonde hair, and light skin. When she got to Egypt everyone had dark hair, dark eyes and dark skin. Rhodopis was a slave, her master was nice to her but the servants of her master were cruel to her. The servants were mean to Rhodopis because she was more beautiful then them, so they made Rhodopis do all of the chores including her own. The master was old and kind he was always found sleeping underneath the fig tree. Rhodopis had not any friends or family in Egypt besides the animals. While Rhodopis was outside working she was dancing with the animals, her master awaken to her dancing. He thought she was good, he also noticed that she didn’t have shoes. So he rewarded her with a pair of red and gold slippers. All of the servants were very jealous. Soon the servants heard that the Pharaoh was having a party, the servants told Rhodopis that she wasn’t allowed to go. The next day Rhodopis was doing her chores while the servants got into there boat to go to the Pharaoh’s home. Rhodopis had taken her shoes off so they wouldn’t get wet by the water she placed them behind her. The servants had left and while Rhodopis was working a falcon came down from the sky and took one of her slippers. She began to cry and yelled to the falcon to come back. The falcon kept going. The falcon flew all the way to the Pharaoh’s home and dropped the shoe right on his lap. The Pharaoh looked at the shoe and thought it was a gift. He thought whoever’s foot fit into it shall marry him. He then sent out his workers to find whose foot fit into the shoe. A lot of the girls wanted to try it on so they did but no ones foot fit. So the Pharaoh rode up the Nile to this little house and he made the servants try it on. They knew whose shoe it was but tried it on anyway. The Pharaoh then saw Rhodopis and asked her to try it on. She did and it fit. She became queen.

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 * Egypt’s Religion ** in Egypt they had many different religious beliefs. Back in the day in Egypt many people believed in gods and worshipped them.


 * Egypt **** ’s populatio[[image:http://www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/africa/egypt/map_of_egypt.jpg width="309" height="234" align="left"]]n ** is about 84,474,000.


 * The Capital ** of Egypt is Cairo.


 * The Ancient Government ** is that Egypt was lead by a Pharaoh.


 * Their Currency ** is known as “Pound” they call it “Egyptian Pound”


 * The Official language ** is Arabic which is mostly used for writing too. English is used also.


 * The Area of Egypt ** is about 385,229 sq mi.

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** __E__ **** __g y p t i a n F o o d s & R e c i p e s__ ** Mainly the Egyptians only grew wheat and barely, because of how dry it was in Egypt. Most of the time all the Egyptians would get their food from the Nile River and harvest their crops around it. The Egyptians made the wheat into bread and soup. This is how it was back in the day. But today they eat a lot of beans, rice, potatoes, and cabbage. They mix them and make different things with those foods. There are a lot of other foods they use. One of their famous things to eat for dessert is Blueberry And Orange Salad with Lavender Meringues. 6 oranges 350g/l2oz/3 cups blueberries 8 fresh lavender sprigs For the meringue 2 egg whites 115g/4oz/1/2 cup caster sugar 5ml/1 tsp fresh lavender flowers Cook's Tip [|More Food Facts]