How important was the process of mummification and the afterlife to Egyptians?

Mummification was extremely important to the Egyptians because they believed that when their leaders were mummified they would be protected into the afterlife. They would also put objects in the mummy casket cause they believed that they would take it with them to the afterlife.

the end of the gilded age coincided with the panic of 1893, a deep depression, which lasted until 1897 and marked a major political realignment in the election of 1896. this productive but divisive era was followed by the progressive era.