Key Terms
Writing in ancient egypt
The lives of the egyptians
Science and medicine
Other
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What are hieroglyphs?
PICTURES AND OTHER WRITTEN SYMBOLS THAT STAND FOR IDEAS, THINGS, OR SOUNDS.
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Where did the hieroglyphs come from?
IN ANCIENT EGYPT AS IN MESOPOTAMIA
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How do we know what everyday life was for the Egyptians?
THEY LEFT DRAWINGS THAT EXPLAINED THEIR LIVES
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How was Egypt known?
AS THE LAND OF GREAT LEARNING BECAUSE OF THE GREAT IMPORTANT ADVANCES IN ASTRONOMY AS IN MEDICINE MADE BY EGYPT
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Why did the Egyptians use Mathematics?
TO FIND SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS THEY FACED EVERYDAY
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What is a Papyrus?
AN EARLY FORM OF PAPER MADE FROM A REED PLANT FOUND IN THE MARSHY AREAS OF THE NILE DELTA, THE PLANT USED TO MAKE THIS PAPER
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What drawing stands for the 'm' sound?
A DRAWING OF AN OWL
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How was the Egyptian society organized?
IT WAS ORGANIZED LIKE A PYRAMID IN THE TOP OF THE PYRAMID THERE WERE PHARAOH'S BUT AS YOU GO LOWER THE CLASSES SEEM TO GO DOWN FROM ROYALTY TO SLAVES
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Who predicted when the Nile would flood?
THE ASTRONOMERS
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Why did Mathematics help the Egyptians to build pyramids?
BECAUSE MATHEMATICS HELP THEM TO MEASURE THE PERFECT AMOUNT OF STONE THEY NEEDED TO BUILD A PYRAMID
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What is an Astronomer?
A SCIENTIST WHO STUDIES THE STARS AND OTHER OBJECTS IN THE SKY
300
In what materials did the Sumerians and Egyptians began to write in?
CLAY AND STONE
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What people were made slaves?
PRISONERS CAPTURED IN WARS
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How did they predict that the Nile would flood?
ASTRONOMERS PREDICTED THAT THE NILE WOULD FLOOD BY NOTICING SIRIUS THE DOG STAR, IN THE SKY BEFORE THE SUNRISE
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What were closely related in Ancient Egypt?
RELIGION AND MEDICINE
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Why did the Egyptians begin to use hieroglyphs?
THEY NEEDED TO KEEP TRACK ABOUT THE KINGDOM'S GROWING WEALTH
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Why was the Egyptian society flexible?
IT WAS FLEXIBLE BECAUSE EVEN THE SLAVES HAD RIGHTS
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To about how many days did Sirius come?
365 DAYS AND THAT BECAME THE LENGTH OF THE YEAR
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Why did doctors need to be priests too for their job?
TO TRY TO USE RELIGIOUS PRACTICES AND THEIR KNOWLEDGE TO HEAL THE SICK
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What did the Egyptians needed to begin doing to keep track of their ideas?
THEY MADE PICTURES TO KEEP TRACK TO REMEMBER THEM
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Could the slaves be set free?
YES THEY COULD THAT IS 1 OF THEIR RIGHTS
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Why did they work on how many times did Sirius come?
TO FIND OUT THE AVERAGE DAYS OF A YEAR
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Because of what did the Egyptians knew so many things about the body?
THEY KNEW MANY THINGS ABOUT THE BODY BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE THEY NEEDED TO MUMMIFY
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