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What does ancient mean?
Very, very old
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What is another word for KING that the Egyptians used?
Pharaoh
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What continent is Egypt located on?
Africa
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What type of architecture did the Egyptians contribute?
Pyramids
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What color clothes did Egpytians wear?
White!
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What was the name of the people that lived in Ancient Egpyt?
Egyptians
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What does contribution mean?
Something that you give or something you do for someone else
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Where in Africa is Egpyt?
In the north
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How did the Egyptians help us be able to write in school?
They contributed paper, called Papyrus
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What is half man half lion?
a sphinx
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How old is Egpyt?
about 5,000 years old
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What does architecture mean?
The design of buildings
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What desert in Egypt is also called the "Desert Desert"
The Sahara Desert!
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What are two contributions besides paper and pyramids the Egyptians gave us?
The calendar and the clock
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Why did Egyptians wear makeup on their faces?
To protect their faces from the hot sun!
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Why did the Egyptians build Ancient Egypt next to the Nile River?
The river flooded yearly and made the soil fertile for growing crops
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What is the name of the written language used in Egypt?
Hieroglyphics
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Egypt has what kind of climate? Atleast 3 words to describe the climate!
Hot, Dry, two seasons- blistering summers and cool winters. Didn't rain much, but when it did it downpoured!
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The Egyptian calendar had 12 months and 365 days. They had 10 days in a week. How is it different than ours?
Our calendar only has 7 days in a week.
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How did Egyptians show other Egyptians they were wealthy?
They wore as much jewelry as they could!
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What did Egpytians do to their kings when they died? and then where did they put them?
They made them into mummies and then buried them in the pyramids.
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What is a pyramid and why were they built?
A pyramid is architecture in Egypt and they were built to bury great pharaohs.
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What river did Egyptians build their civilization along? Tell me 2 animals that live in this river.
The Nile River, Crocodiles! and Hippos
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Give 2 reasons how our lives would be different if Egpytians didn't make any contributions.
We wouldn't be able to tell time, we wouldn't have paper to write one, we wouldn't be able to have a calendar and we wouldn't have architecture.
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On special days Egpytians wore what? and what were they made of?
They wore wigs and they were made of human hair and beeswax.