The Land by the Nile

Question 1

When was King Menes ruling over Egypt?

Answer 1

He was ruling over Egypt in 3100 BC

Question 2

How many years ago was 3100 BC?

Answer 2

5100 years ago.

Question 3

Every autumn, when it gets cold what flies south?

Answer 3

The swallows fly south.

Question 4

Where does it not rain for days on end?

Answer 4

It does not rain for days on end in Africa.

Question 5

What river flows right through the middle of the country?

Answer 5

The Nile River.

Question 6

What did the Egyptians worship as if it were God himself?

Answer 6

They worshiped The Nile.

Question 7

How long ago did they sang a hymn to the river?

Answer 7

Four thousand years ago.

Question 8

What happened to there land because of the Nile?

Answer 8

The Nile made their land grow rich and powerful.

Question 9

Who was the first King to rule over Egypt?

Answer 9

King Menes was the first to rule over Egypt.

Question 10

What were Kings called in Egypt?

Answer 10

Kings were called Pharaohs.

Question 11

What did a Pharaohs live in?

Answer 11

They lived in great stone palace with massive pillars and many courtyards.

Question 12

How long ago did King Cheops live?

Answer 12

He lived in 2500 BC.

Question 13

What did King Cheops summon all his subjects to do?

Answer 13

He summoned all of his subjects to construct his tomb.

Question 14

What did King Cheops want his tomb like?

Answer 14

He wanted it like a mountain.

Question 15

What is King Cheops tomb called today?

Answer 15

The Great Pyramid of Cheops is what they called King Cheops tomb.

Question 16

What could fit inside his tomb comfortably?

Answer 16

They said a cathedral could fit inside his tomb comfortably.

Question 17

What would happen if the people working in the fields got tired?

Answer 17

The Kings overseer was sure to drive them on with the hippopotamus skin whip as they dragged and heaved those immense loads for there Kings tomb.

Question 18

Why would the King build such a big tomb>|?

Answer 18

It was part of his religion.

Question 19

Did the Egyptians believe in many gods

Answer 19

yes they did believe in many gods.

Question 20

What were the gods they believed in?

Answer 20

Osiris, Isis, Amon, and Anubis

Question 21

What did they believe each pharaoh was a son of?

Answer 21

They believed each Pharaoh was a son of the sun god.

Question 22

Why were certain animals sacred?

Answer 22

Certain animals were sacred because some gods were presented in animal form.

Question 23

What was one of the sacred animals?

Answer 23

A Sphinx was one of the sacred animals.

Question 24

What was the Egyptians strange religion?

Answer 24

They believed that a man’s soul left his body when he died and that that soul went on needing that body and would suffer if it crumbled into dust.

Question 25

How did they preserve dead bodies?

Answer 25

They rubbed them with ointments and the juices of certain plants, and bandaged them with long strips of cloth so that they wouldn't decay.

Question 26

How was a mummy's burial process?

Answer 26

The mummy was placed into a coffin made of wood, the wooden coffin in one of stone, and the stone one buried not in the earth but in a tomb that was chiseled out of rock.

Question 27

What was your tomb like if you were rich and powerful?

Answer 27

It would be like a whole stone mountain made for your tomb.

Question 28

What was the tomb intended to be?

Answer 28

The tomb was intended to be a dwelling for the soul when it returned to visit its body.

Question 29

What did they do to make sure that the soul did not go to the wrong tomb?

Answer 29

They decorated the tomb with food and furniture and clothes, and there were a lot of paintings on the wall and there was a portrait.

Question 30

How to we kinda know what life was like back then in Egypt?

Answer 30

We know because of the great stone statues and the bright and vivid wall paintings.

Question 31

What did the Kings do to noblemen's tombs

Answer 31

They would give ministers with decorations.

Question 32

Next to brightly colored paintings you often see what?

Answer 32

you would often see Hieroglyphics.

Question 33

Why was hieroglyphics was hard to learn?

Answer 33

It was hard to learn because it's like constructing a picture puzzle.

Question 34

How would they write there god Osiris in hieroglyphics?

Answer 34

They would draw a throne which was pronounced "Oos" and an eye which was pronounced "iri" so the two together make "Os-iri."

Question 35

What would they draw next to the there gods name to let people know that it was a gods name?

Answer 35

They would draw a little flag next to the name.

Question 36

What did Christians used to draw next to a persons name to let people know that they are dead?

Answer 36

They would draw a cross.

Question 37

What were the books made from?

Answer 37

The books were made from a certain type of reed that grows on the banks of the Nile.

Question 38

What was the saying that was written almost five thousand years ago?

Answer 38

The saying was "Wise words are rare than emeralds, yet they come from mouths of poor slave girls who turn the millstones."

Question 39

Who had the longest empire that lasted nearly three thousand years?

Answer 39

The Egyptians were the ones that had the longest empire.

Question 40

What did the ancient papers tell us?

Answer 40

The ancient papers told us "The land is turning like a potter's wheel."

Question 41

When did Akhenaton live?

Answer 41

Akhenaton lived around 1370.

Question 42

Did Akhenaton believe in many gods?

Answer 42

No, he believed in the one and only God.

Question 43

What was a quote Akhenaton taught?

Answer 43

He taught the quote "and that is the Sun, through whose rays all is created and all sustained."

Question 44

What did Akhenaton encouraged people to do?

Answer 44

He encouraged people to pray.

Question 45

Why did King Akhenaton move to a new palace?

Answer 45

He moved because the ancient temples got shut down.

Question 46

What did King Akhenaton do to his new palace?

Answer 46

He decorated it and painted the walls, and there was a new style,

Question 47

Did King Akhenaton new style of his palace please people?

Answer 47

No, the people did not like his new style.

Question 48

What happened to the palace when King Akhenaton died?

Answer 48

The people brought back the old style.

Question 49

What stayed the same for years?

Answer 49

People put mummies into tombs, they still wrote hieroglyphics, and they still pray to the same gods.

Question 50

What was the new animal that they worshiped?

Answer 50

They worshiped cats as sacred animals.