Geography
Technology and Contributions
Religious Beliefs
Important People
Life in Egypt
100
The river flowing through Egypt is was often referred to as...
What is 'The Gift of the Nile'?
100
Ancient Egpytians used a number system much like ours today.
What is a base-10 system.
100
This was the main god during the Old and Middle Kingdoms.
Who is Ra, the sun god.
100
Define pharaoh
What is an Egpytian leader. First called a king, then later called pharaoh. It means 'Great House' in Egyptian. He was believed to be a ruler, a priest and a god. He owned all the land in Egypt, and chose government officials.
100
Most people in Ancient Egypt would have been ____________, who lived in ________________.
What is farmers; villages on the estates of landowners.
200
The pyramids were built on this side of the Nile, to match the setting sun.
What is the West?
200
Many rules of this were discovered and used for the first time during the building of the great pyramids.
What is geometry.
200
This was the cornerstone of Ancient Egyptian belief.
What is the after life?
200
The pharaoh who united Upper and Lower Egypt in 3100 BCE.
Who is Narmer (or Menes)?
200
Draw the social hierarchy in Ancient Egypt.
What is (bottom to top) women/slaves;farmers; soldiers; craftsmen; priests; noblemen, pharaoh
300
Definitions of Kemet and Desheret.
What is Kemet (Black land; crop growing land running along the Nile river) and Desheret (Red land; the desert to either side of the Nile river)
300
Define papyrus and explain how it was made.
What is Egyptian paper made from tightly pressed papyrus reeds, used to record written language?
300
Define embalming, and explain why it was used?
What is the way of preparing the bodies of the dead using natron, and then being wrapped in linen. It was used to preserve bodies for the afterlife. If bodies decomposed, a person would not get to live on.
300
These people invaded Egypt during the Middle Kingdom. (Bonus, why did they defeat them?)
Who are the Hyksos? (They defeated the Egyptians because the government of Egypt was weak from the take over of Egypt by goverment officials, as well as having tools made of bronze and iron, as well as horses.)
300
Define scribe.
What is a person who was trained to write in hieroglyphs and another form of writing to keep records, record stories and write medical prescriptions. The right to become a scribe was usually passed from father to son.
400
How physical geography and animal geography influenced Egyptian religious views.
What is gods in the Egyptian belief often combined things seen in the physical environment with animals from the world around them. For example, Ra the sun god was connected with Falcons, whom the Egyptians would see soaring in the sky above them.
400
Name 3 contributions of Egpytian medicine.
What is 1) They were the first medical specialists, people became dentists, surgeons, eye doctors. 2) They set broken bones, gave stitches and used splints and bandages. 3) They discovered some of the earliest forms of medicine, using things like castor oil for upset stomachs.
400
The river and sun gods of Ancient Egypt.
Who are Hapi and Re.
400
This Pharaoh increased trade with other civilizations, especially in Punt (modern day Somalia).
Who is Hatsheput?
400
Where and how were people buried and why?
All people in Egypt were embalmed. The wealthy in earlier kingdoms were then put into pyramids or tombs with their belongings to take with them to the afterlife. The poor were simply buried in the desheret.
500
Name and describe 2 important things the Nile River provided that made civilization possible.
What are 1) The yearly flooding deposited rich soil on farmland that made the land suitable for growing crops. 2) In the dry season farmers were able to dig irrigation and use tools like the shaduf to water crops that otherwise could not survive. 3) The Nile River allowed people and goods to be transported from place to place. 4) The Nile River would have been a source of food for some, as well as where the papyrus that was used as paper would have come from.
500
Name and describe several tools and technologies that were used to build the pyramids.
What is 1) A frame - a tool shaped like a capital 'A' with a line and weight hanging from the top. If what it was placed on was perfectly horizontal, the weight would hang perfectly down the middle. 2) F frame - a tool shaped like a capital F, used to make sure that walls were perfectly vertical. (http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/what-the-ancients-knew/videos/what-the-ancients-knew-i-shorts-a-frame-f-frame/) 3) Drills were made using bits of sand/gravel, a copper tube, and a wooden pole.
500
How did someone get in to the afterlife?
What is after death, people were taken to the underworld. Here their souls were weighed on a scale. If a person had a good life and knew the right spells (to learn these they read the 'Book of the Dead'), the scales would balance. Then Osiris would grant them life after death.
500
Who was the Pharaoh that changed Egyptian religion, and why?
Who is Amenhotep IV. He wanted to return power to the Pharaohs and had only one god being worshipped (Aton). Then he changed his name to Akhenaton. Most Egpytians did not accept the new religion.
500
Why did Egyptian civilization eventually fail (2 reasons - more needed for quiz)
What is 1) A struggle between the pharaohs and priests (Amenhotep IV creation of a single god didn't make too many very happy, apparently) 2) The pharaohs' attempts to keep other countries under their control was expensive, war costs a lot in money and human life. 3) Resources - other civilizations began to use iron weapons and tools. Egpyt has no iron, so they had to spend lots of money to buy it. They were taken over by the Assyrian empire in 671 BCE.
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