Egypt Geography
What is Egypt protected by land wise on the East and West?
Egyptians were polytheistic. What does that mean?
Had many deities
What Irrigation achievements did the Egyptians make?
Basins, canals, dikes, damns, shadoors
How was many dynasties and how many kingdoms were in Egypt?
31 dynasties, 3 kingdoms
Who did Ancient Egypt trade with?
Who was at the top of the Egyptian Social Structure?
Pharaoh and Priests
What protected Egypt from the lands below them?
The cataracts (river rapids) in the Nile River
What did the Egyptians believe in after death?
The afterlife - for elite few, book of the dead
What metals did the Egyptians make and use?
Bronze, Copper, Iron
Who ruled Egypt and what did they believe he was
Pharaoh and a god
What did Ancient Egypt grow?
What shape does the social structure of Egypt make?
A triangle with the powerful people being very few at the top and the bottom being farmers and unskilled worker and making up most of the Egyptians.
What river is the longest river in the world that flows?
the Nile
What did Egyptians believe the Pharaoh was?
A god on Earth, Son of Ra
What architectural and land achievements did the Egyptians make?
Pyramids and columns, surveying of land
Egypt became an Empire. Who united Egypt?
Narmer
What did Egyptians trade and trade for?
Egyptians traded the excess of what they grew (barley, wheat and flax) for timber and metal
Who was in the middle of the social structure of Egypt?
Merchants, Traders and artisans?
What was the climate of Egypt?
Dry climate only farmland was by the Nile
What achievements did they make in language and paper?
hieroglyphics and papyrus.
Name the important Egypt leaders
Khafu, Hatsheput, Samesus II, King Tut
What were most Egyptians?
Farmers
Who was at the bottom of the social structure of Egypt?
Farmers and unskilled workers
What was the Nile Delta important for?
Floods of the Nile were predictable and gentle.
What medical advancements did Egyptians make?
Which Kingdoms went to war?
Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom
Did women have any rights? some rights? all rights?
some rights
What Math Achievements did they make
Math based on 10, fractions, geomoetry