Egypt

Question 1

Why did people make settlements near the Nile River?

Answer 1

To be near the water.

Question 2

Over 10 000 years ago, Egypt was covered with _________

Answer 2

grassland

Question 3

Nomads hunted and gathered their food but then people learned how to plant seeds and farm. What happened about 6000 years ago

Answer 3

The climate changed and the area turned into a huge desert

Question 4

Today, most of Egypt is still covered by which Desert?

Answer 4

Sahara Desert

Question 5

During the summer rainy season in East Africa, many small tributaries flowed into which river?

Answer 5

Nile River

Question 6

The river would sometimes swell and flood its banks. It carried _____ and _____ _____ down from the mountains of East Africa.

Answer 6

mud / fertile soil

Question 7

Egypt is in which area of Africa?

Answer 7

North Africa

Question 8

The floodwaters dried up by late summer, leaving _____ ________ behind.

Answer 8

fertile soil

Question 9

Which was the main way that people earned a living in Egypt?

Answer 9

farming

Question 10

Name 7 ways that Egyptians use the river

Answer 10

irrigation for their fields,
drinking water,
fishing,
transportation of building materials and goods for trading in villages,
papyrus reeds which grew along the river banks were used for building materials and for making paper,
mud to make bricks,
hunting of hippos and river birds for food

Question 11

What was the reason that Egyptians was mostly save from attacks?

Answer 11

The desert made it difficult to attach them as well as the rapids on the Nile River, it prevented people from sailing up the river and attacking form the south.

Question 12

How was Ancient Egyptian society organised?

Answer 12

Early Egypt was a hierarchical society.
People were not equal
They did not have the same power or resources

Question 13

Who was the most important person

Answer 13

Ruler or pharoah, then the Government officials

Question 14

What is the name for the most senior official?

Answer 14

vizier

Question 15

The vizier is the one who decided?

Answer 15

what taxes to collect, managed government activities like construction

Question 16

What was also very important in the Egyptian society?

Answer 16

Religion and defence

Question 17

Who also had a lot of power?

Answer 17

Priests and army commanders, then nobles, then scribes, craftsman, traders and wealthier farmers
Later came the peasant farmers and finally the slaves.

Question 18

What did the Egyptians believe?

Answer 18

They believed in over 2000 gods. We learn this from looking at ancient Egyptians statues and paintings

Question 19

What is the 2000 gods called?

Answer 19

polytheism, meaning “many gods”

Question 20

The Egyptians believed that the gods controlled everything on Earth. People who made the gods angry would be punished by

Answer 20

death, illness, starvation and drought

Question 21

Each god was associated with a special ______ or _____.

Answer 21

animal / bird

Question 22

Which was the most well-known god?

Answer 22

Ra, the sun god

Question 23

He was the chief god of all other gods and was usually painted as a?

Answer 23

human with a falcon’s head

Question 24

Explain the crown of the god Ra

Answer 24

The sun with a cobra around it

Question 25

What was the story they told to explain night and day?

Answer 25

They said Ra sailed across the sky, which was heaven. At sunset Ra died. He sailed through night in the Underworld, the place where people went when they died. Ra left the moon to provide light for the world above. Then his boat had to sail through twelve doors. The doors represented the 12 hours of night. After sailing through these doors, Ra was born again and the sun rose.

Question 26

What did ancient Egyptians believe when someone died?

Answer 26

They went to the afterlife or the next world

Question 27

The dead were buried in

Answer 27

burial chambers inside the pyramids

Question 28

How were pharoahs buried?

Answer 28

In tombs in a special place called the Valley of the Kinds because so many people robbed the burial chamgers of the pyramids

Question 29

Egyptians believed that their pharoah could speak to the _______

Answer 29

gods

Question 30

The pharaoh was selected how?

Answer 30

Always the eldest son of the previous pharaoh. He was chief priest and head of the army too and owned all the land, people and possessions in Egypt

Question 31

Egyptians believed their pharaoh’s spirit could _________

Answer 31

live forever

Question 32

Egypt is famous for its ________

Answer 32

pyramids

Question 33

How are pyramids made?

Answer 33

Built of stone blocks they cut, cut very accurately so no gaps between blocks when they put them together

Question 34

Which is one of the most famous pyramids?

Answer 34

Great Pyramid of Giza

Question 35

How many years does historians think it took to built the most famous pyramid? How many men worked on it?

Answer 35

14 to 20 years / over 20 000 men

Question 36

The Great Pyramid of Giza was made when and of how many limestone blocks?

Answer 36

2,3 million limestone blocks / 2560 BCE

Question 37

What is the Sphinx?

Answer 37

A sandstone statue of a mythical creature with a lion’s body and a human head. It stands in front of the Giza pyramids

Question 38

What is the name of one of the world’s oldest and largest statute?

Answer 38

Sphinx, built around 2500 BCE

Question 39

Which pharaoh built the Sphinx?

Answer 39

Khafra

Question 40

Where is one of the stories written of the Sphinx?

Answer 40

Is written on a slab of stone between its paws.

Question 41

Most people think that the Nile is one long river, but it is actually two sections called the ……………. The names of these are called the ……… Nile and the ………Nile.

Answer 41

Tributaries

White Nile and Blue Nile

Question 42

The Nile river flows through the desert and then ends in what is called the ……

Answer 42

delta

Question 43

Egyptians had more than 2000 gods and goddesses.
What is the name of the Sky god?
The two chief gods were called?

Answer 43

Horus

Amon-Ra (sun god) and Osiris (underworld god)

Question 44

There were definite social classes for Egyptians. List the 8 social classes in order of importance (triangle)

Answer 44

Pharaoh
Government officials (vizier/priest/noble)
Soldiers
Scribes
Merchants
Craftsmen
Peasants
Slaves

Question 45

List names of the Pyramids of Egypt.

Answer 45

Mastaba
Step Pyramid
Bent Pyramid
Red Pyramid
Great Pyramid of Giza
Khafre's Pyramid

Question 46

What is the name of the largest ancient religious site in the world?

Answer 46

Karnak and has the Temple of Karnak

Question 47

What is meant by the Äfter-life and how would they treat a dead body?

Answer 47

Egyptians believe in a life after death. They would mummified bodies and believed that later the soul would re-enter the body giving it breath and life.

Question 48

Explain the mummification process

Answer 48

• Wash body in wine and Nile water
• Make a cut in the side and take out organs
• Brain was pulled out with a hook through the nose
• Clean the liver, lunge intestines and stomach and add to four special canopic jars whose lids look like the gods that guard them
• Use Egyptian salt called natron to fill cavities and cover the body to rid all moisture
• Leave for 40 days
• Scoop out the natron and stuff the body with spices, rags and plants
• Wrap body in fine linen bandages and add some lucky amulets
• Utter spells
• Put mummy in a coffin
• Place in tomb

Question 49

What is the name of the Boy King or King Tut?

Answer 49

Tutankhamun

Question 50

At what age did the Boy Kind or King Tut became king?

Answer 50

9 years of age and ruled only for 10 years

Question 51

The Boy king of about 1333 BC and 1323 BC is the most famous in history because it is his tomb that was found more that 3000 years later with all the treasures. Which archaeologists found him?

Answer 51

Howard Carter and George Herbert, Earl of Carnarvon in 1922

Question 52

In Tutankhamun’s reign, in his 3rd year he changed a number of decisions his farther made when he was kin. He then also chanced his name from what to what?

Answer 52

Tutankhaten to Tutankhamun

Question 53

How old was the Tatankhamun when he died?

Answer 53

19, some says he was a sickly child and might have had malaria or a cell disease, he also walked with a cain. When he died so early, young and unexpectedly, they did not yet have a tomb ready for him and had to make one very fast to keep with their traditions.