They built huge houses for their gods. These were called temples and took the place of our churches. These temples had gigantic--that’s the way it is spelled, though it means “giant-ic”--columns and pillars. Ordinary people standing beside them look like dwarfs. Here is one of these temples, and you can see how different it is from our churches: [Illustration: Egyptian temple.] They decorated their temples and pyramids, and the cases in which the mummies were put, with drawings and paintings. The pictures they made, however, looked something like those a young child might draw. For example, when they wanted to make a picture of water, they simply made a zigzag line to represent waves; when they tried to draw a row of men back of a row in front, they put those in the back _on top_ of those in front. To show that a man was a king, they made him several times larger than the other men in the picture. When they painted a picture they used any color they thought was pretty, usually blue or yellow or brown. Whether the person or thing was really that color or not made no difference. 8 A Rich Land Where There Was No Money You have read in fairy-tales of a land where cakes and candy and sugar-plums grow on trees, where everything you want to eat or to play with can be had just by picking it. Well, long, long ago people used to think there had been really such a country, and where do you suppose they said it was? Somewhere near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers--those rivers with the strange names I asked you to learn--and they called this spot the Garden of Eden. We do not know exactly where it was, for there is no such place now quite as wonderful as the Garden of Eden was supposed to be. Egypt was a land of one river, the Nile. The land of the Two Rivers had several names. Let us suppose we are flying over the country in an airplane and looking down at the land between these two rivers. It is called Mesopotamia, which is two Greek words simply meaning “Between the Rivers.” See the land over there by the upper Tigris. It is called _Assyria_. See the land near where the rivers join each other. That is called _Babylonia_. See the land near where they empty. That is called _Chaldea_. And see over there is _Mount Ararat_, where it is supposed Noah’s Ark rested after the flood. Here are a lot of new names. A young friend of mine had a train of toy cars. He had noticed that the Pullman cars on which he had ridden had names, and so he gave his toy cars names also. He called them: ASSYRIA MESOPOTAMIA BABYLONIA ARARAT CHALDEA EUPHRATES