Ancient Egypt
When did Ancient Egypt start?
5,000 years ago
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The ______________ is a giant statue that has the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh.
The Great Sphinx.
Where are the Inuit located? (in which modern day countries?)
The Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, and the United States
True or false, Mayans still live in Mexico and other neighboring countries?
True
What continent was the Incan civilization?
South America.
What animals did Ancient Egyptians respect?
Cats.
How did the Inuit use dogs for transportation?
Dogs pulling dogsleds.
What animals did the Inuit eat? (List at least two animals)
Seal, walrus, polar bear, caribou, fish, birds, bird eggs, and whales.
Where was the Mayan civilization located? (in which modern day countries?)
The Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and parts of Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize, and Honduras
When did the Incan civilization begin?
1200 AD/ or 800-1000 years ago.
Who lived in Ancient Egypt? List at least two groups of people.
Which civilization was the only Native American society with a complete system of writing?
The Mayan
What do the Inuit use to make their clothing?
Animal skins and fur.
When did the Mayan civilization begin?
4,000 years ago.
What is the name of the famous Incan city that you can still visit today?
Machu picchu
Why was the Nile River important?
The Ancient Egyptians depended on the Nile River for food, water, trade, and transport.
What is a Shaduf?
A lever machine that could lift buckets of water.
What did the Inuit live in during the winter?
An igloo.
Who conquered the Mayans?
The Spanish
What did the Spanish have that helped them defeat the Incan - things that the Incan had never seen before?
Guns and horses.
What is the name of the famous female Pharaoh?
Cleopatra
What is the Rosetta Stone?
a stone slab, found in 1799, with Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphic, and demotic characters, making possible the translation of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
What is a Qajaq - or known today as a Kayak?
A type of canoe used originally by the Inuit, made of a light frame with a watertight covering having a small opening in the top to sit in.
Fill in the blank. Some of the most spectacular Mayan artifacts are stone columns called ______
Stelae.
Fill in the blank. The Incans used string and knots to record ___________
numbers.