What is the author's purpose for writing this selection?
100
Love
Why did people marry in Egypt?
100
The dry season lasted from March to July and was when the crops were harvested and stored.
What is Shemu?
100
The author uses headings and groups all of the information under these headings.
How does the author organize so much information in such little space?
100
The bodies were wrapped in this as a last step of mummification.
What is white strips of linen cloth?
200
Egypte is located in the northeast corner of this continent.
What is Africa?
200
These people wore leather sandals, wigs, jewerly, and cosmetics. They lived in large homes built around courtyards and pools. They even wore cones of perfumed animal fat on their heads on festive occasions.
Who were the upper class?
200
The first three fingers of the right hand.
What did Egyptians eat with?
200
Egyptians wrote with these picture symbols.
What is Hieroglyphics?
200
These were ruling familes.
What is a dynasty?
300
They were farmers, laborers, and soldiers.
Who were the common people?
300
A game they played by moving peices on a checkerboard.
What is senet?
300
Just west of Cairo, Khufa built the largest one around 2600 B.C.
What is the Great Pyramid?
300
The age of 110 was believed to be the perfect life span, but most ancient Egyptians only lived to about this age.
What is the age of 30?
300
This person was at the top rung of Egyptian society with his family and another name for this is a king.
What is a pharaoh?
400
Artisians, merchants, and engineers made up this class in ancient Egypt.
Who is the middle class?
400
The new year in Egypt begin with the flooding of this river. It lasted for four months, started in July, and was called Akhet.
What is the Nile River?
400
The massive stone lion with the head of a man.
What is the Great Sphinx?
400
The way bodies were kept from decaying after death in ancient Egypt.
What is a mummy?
400
This queen of Egypt was noted for her beauty.
What is Nefertiti?
500
These people lived in Mud homes with woven mats on the floor, went barefoot, and wore head coverings while working in the sun.
What was life like for the lower class people in ancient Egypt?
500
This second season of the year was the plowing and planting season. It began in November when the flood waters receded.
What is Peret?
500
Most cities in ancient Egypt were locted around this as a part of the Old Kingdom.
What is the Nile River?
500
First the body was packed with this salt, which dried the tissues and kept them from breaking down.
What is natron?
500
The genre of this story explains the nature of ancient Egypt.