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What is The Nile?
A large river that Ancient Egypt relied on
True or False:
Ancient Egypt had only one god.
False
What is an example that we can still see today of the Ancient Egyptians' skills with math, engineering, and building?
The Great Pyramids
(I will take Sphinx, as well)
Did the Ancient Egyptians vote for their Pharaoh?
No. They believed their king was chosen and pre-destined by the gods to be born into the position.
Who had the most power?
Pharaoh
What was Ancient Egypt in the middle of?
Desert
What did they believe their Pharaohs became?
A god
What is the Rosetta Stone?
A stone that helped us to learn Hieroglyphics and Demotic. Greek was the language we already knew, and since the stone had the same declaration written in all three languages, we could use the Greek to translate the others.
Where were the Pharaohs bodies buried/protected after Khufu?
The Pyramids
What was different about Men or Women in Ancient Egypt that most other ancient civilizations didn't have?
Women had rights/freedoms (could own/inherit/sell land, could work jobs, could divorce, etc.)
Men were expected to participate in the keeping of the family and chores
What did the desert provide for Ancient Egypt?
Protection from other countries
What did the Ancient Egyptians believe the afterlife looked like?
A best case scenario mirror image of their life on earth
What weird medicine did the Ancient Egyptians use that we still use today? (think dental)
Toothpaste
What is a dynasty?
A royal bloodline. This means that the pharaohs parent was a pharaoh, and their parent before that, and their parent before that.
What did children have specific time built into their schedules to do that most ancient civilizations did not account for?
Play
What made trade possible in ancient Egypt? This thing was also responsible for the irrigation systems and fertile land.
The Nile River
DAILY DOUBLE
The Upper-class Ancient Egyptians paid a lot of money to mummify their dead. How did the poorer classes do it?
They left them out in the sun in the desert for a length of time until the bodies dried out naturally. They then wrapped and buried them.
What were the people called who wrote and kept records, a skill which the Ancient Egyptians felt was extremely valuable and important?
Scribes
What were the three "kingdoms" or time periods called?
Old, middle, and new
Every Ancient Egyptian citizen.
Fun fact: one of these jobs could be building the pyramids
Ancient Egypt was in Africa. What continent were they closest to besides Africa?
Europe
(I will accept Asia for half a point)
Why did the Ancient Egyptians mummify their dead?
They believed the body had to stay in one piece so the parts of the soul had something to root to. If they lost the body, they would lose the soul.
Ancient Egypt is the longest lasting Civilization to have ever existed. About how long was the Ancient Egyptian civilization around?
30 Centuries, 3,000 years
What is a Theocracy?
Name one of the three "Middle class" citizens.
Merchant
Scribe
Artisan