How we know about ancient Egypt
What is the biggest reason we know so much about ancient Egyptians today?
What is archeologists discovered King Tutankhamen's tomb in the 1920s and were able to learn from the artifacts they found in the tomb.
the people who went to school in ancient Egypt, starting at about the age of ten.
Who are boys.
The group that has the most people in it on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What is the slaves?
Why do scientists believe the ancient Egyptians chose to live in ancient Egypt?
What is because the Nile River provided them with food, water, transportation and protection.
The age ancient Egyptians are able to get married.
What is 12 ?
the three groups that are in the middle of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
What are the soldiers, scribes, and craftsmen?
What is the Nile river, Sahara desert, Mediterranean sea and Sinai mountains?
a reed plant that grows along the Nile, which can be used to make paper.
What is papyrus?
How do we know what the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics say?
What is the Rosetta Stone was found and scientists were able to decipher it by understanding the two other languages on it and figuring out what the hieroglyphics say.
Why were ancient Egyptians buried with their belongings?
What is so they would have what they needed in the afterlife.
the famous valley where many important pharaohs and nobles are buried.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
What is a scribe ?
Scientists learned a lot about ancient Egypt by examining artifacts and writings that they found. Give an example of something archeologists may have found and what we learned from it.
What is (accept any appropriate answer)
Why were the ancient Egyptians mummified?
What is so they could recognize their body in the afterlife.
the direction the Nile River flows.
What is north?
the watering of dry land by means of canals or pipes
What is irrigation?
How do we know how the pharaohs and the nobles lived their lives?
What is archeologists found the Papyrus Lansing which is an ancient Egyptian document that tells about people's lives in ancient times.
Name 2 ways the community you live in is the same and 2 ways it is different than ancient Egypt.
What is (accept appropriate answers)
How did the pharaohs spend their days?
Name at least 3 things they do during the day.
What is
getting dressed, eating breakfast, meeting with visitors, visiting the temple, walking in their gardens, parading through the streets to see the people, talking with wife and vizier?
what Egyptians use to help water their crops if the canals run dry.
What is a shaduf ?
a system of writing that was made up of about 800 picture-signs.
What are hieroglyphics?