02 - The Land by the Nile

Question 1

When is it said that history began?

Answer 1

3100 BC, or 5100 years ago.

Question 2

Who was the king that ruled over Egypt during 3100 BC?

Answer 2

King Menes.

Question 3

What country or civilization did King Menes rule over?

Answer 3

Egypt.

Question 4

When did King Menes rule Egypt?

Answer 4

3100 BC.

Question 5

What bird flies to Africa every autumn?

Answer 5

Swallows.

Question 6

When do swallows fly to Africa?

Answer 6

Autumn, when it gets cold.

Question 7

What are the lands of either side of Egypt?

Answer 7

Desert.

Question 8

What flows through the middle of Egypt?

Answer 8

The Nile river.

Question 9

Where does the Nile flow through?

Answer 9

Egypt.

Question 10

How often does it rain heavily in Egypt?

Answer 10

Twice a year.

Question 11

What would happen to the Nile during heavy rain?

Answer 11

It would swell and flood.

Question 12

What were people forced to do when the Nile flooded?

Answer 12

Take boats between their houses.

Question 13

Why were people sometimes forced to use boats to get between houses in ancient Egypt?

Answer 13

Twice a year the Nile would flood.

Question 14

What happened to the Nile after the heavy rains withdrew?

Answer 14

“The earth was wonderfully drenched and rich with oozing mud” (1).

Question 15

Why was the mud a good thing for the Egyptians?

Answer 15

After the heavy rain, the drenched mud is where the grain would grow.

Question 16

Why did the Egyptians worship the Nile “as if it were a God?”

Answer 16

Because the Nile would provide the Egyptians with the support for life.

Question 17

What type of song did the Egyptians write for the Nile?

Answer 17

A hymn.

Question 18

When was the hymn for the Nile written?

Answer 18

About 4000 years ago.

Question 19

What is the reasoning or meaning behind the Nile’s hymn: “Glory be to you, oh Nile! You rise out of the earth and come to nourish Egypt! you water the plains and have the power to feed all cattle. You quench the thirsty desert, far from any water. You bring forth the barley, you create the wheat. You fill the granaries and storehouses, not forgetting the poor. For You we pluck our harps, for You we sing.”

Answer 19

The Nile supports all the necessities and needs of the citizens in Egypt, supplying drinking water, growing their crops, feeding their livestock, and even being a use of transportation (which isn’t brought up in the text) allowing the usage of boats.

Question 20

Who was the “mightiest of all” in Egypt?

Answer 20

The king.

Question 21

What was the Egyptian term for a king?

Answer 21

A pharaoh.

Question 22

Where did the pharaoh live?

Answer 22

In a great stone palace.

Question 23

What dictated the law in ancient Egypt?

Answer 23

The word of the pharaoh.

Question 24

Who was the first pharaoh in Egypt?

Answer 24

King Menes.

Question 25

Who was the pharaoh of Egypt during 2500 BC?

Answer 25

King Cheops.

Question 26

When did King Cheops live?

Answer 26

2500 BC.

Question 27

What did King Cheops gather all his subjects to do?

Answer 27

Build a massive tomb.

Question 28

Who did King Cheops gather to build his massive tomb?

Answer 28

His subjects, or citizens.

Question 29

What was the tomb for King Cheops called?

Answer 29

The Great Pyramid of Cheops.

Question 30

In the text, what type of building could have "fit comfortably inside?"

Answer 30

A cathedral.

Question 31

How long did King Cheops's subjects take to build his pyramid?

Answer 31

30 years.

Question 32

Around how many people did it take to build Cheops's pyramid?

Answer 32

A hundred thousand.

Question 33

How were the workers of King Cheops encouraged to keep working?

Answer 33

"The king's overseer was sure to drive them on with his hippopotamus-skin whip" (2).

Question 34

Why would the pharaoh want to build this tomb?

Answer 34

It was a part of his religion.

Question 35

The ancient Egyptians thought that long ago, their gods had _____ over them as _____.

Answer 35

The ancient Egyptians thought that long ago, their gods had ruled over them as kings.

Question 36

What are some of the Egyptian gods mentioned in the text?

Answer 36

Osiris, Isis, Amon, and Anubis.

Question 37

Who was Isis?

Answer 37

The consort of Osiris.

Question 38

Who was Amon?

Answer 38

The sun god.

Question 39

Who was Anubis?

Answer 39

The god of the Kingdom of the Dead, depicted having a jackal's head.

Question 40

In the context of gods, what did the Egyptians believe about the pharaohs?

Answer 40

That each pharaoh was a son of the sun god.

Question 41

Why were the pharaohs so feared and unquestioned?

Answer 41

They were believed to be sons of the sun god.

Question 42

What did the Egyptians built in honor of the Egyptian gods?

Answer 42

Massive stone statues, temples, and obelisks.

Question 43

What is an obelisks?

Answer 43

A tall pointed stone, cut from granite.

Question 44

Where in the text is one of the ancient Egyptian obelisks kept?

Answer 44

In London by the Thames.

Question 45

What is one example of a sacred animal in the Egyptian religion?

Answer 45

Cats.

Question 46

What was one god that was represented in the form of a lion?

Answer 46

The Sphinx.

Question 47

What was an Egyptian belief about death?

Answer 47

That when a soul left its body, it would still need its body. And if their body decayed, the soul would suffer.

Question 48

How did the Egyptians preserve their dead?

Answer 48

By embalming the bodies with ointments and juices from certain plants, and then bandaging them with strips of cloth till their whole body was covered.

Question 49

What were the Egyptian preserved bodies called?

Answer 49

Mummies.

Question 50

What was the purpose of a tomb?

Answer 50

To not only keep the dead body safe, but to also serve as a dwelling for the soul if it were to return to it's body.