Ancient Egypt Historical Overview

Question 1

Where is Ancient Egypt located?

Answer 1

In the northeast corner of Africa.

Question 2

How long did the Egyptian civilization last?

Answer 2

It lasted for over three thousand years.

Question 3

What are two benefits of the Nile River’s location in ancient Egypt?

Answer 3

1. Each year, it would flood the country’s banks and refertilize the crops.
2. It enabled the Egyptians to trade goods with their African and Mediterranean neighbors.

Question 4

What were the original two kingdoms that Egypt was divided into?

Answer 4

Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt.

Question 5

Why was a pharaoh considered to be more than a king?

Answer 5

The Egyptians believed that he was the supreme ruler chosen by the gods, and believed that when a man became the pharaoh, he also became a god.

Question 6

How did the Egyptians keep the bloodlines of the gods pure?

Answer 6

By marrying their sisters, mothers, and cousins.

Question 7

What are the three major time periods that the history of Egypt is divided into?

Answer 7

The Old Kingdom (when the pharaohs built the pyramids), the Middle Kingdom (when trading and military explorers were sent out to expand Egypt’s boundaries), and the New Kingdom (when Queen Cleopatra lost her land to Augustus Caesar and Rome).

Question 8

The Egyptians were religious. What did they believe in?

Answer 8

They believed in life after death.

Question 9

What are six things that the Egyptians invented?

Answer 9

A written and spoken language, the world’s first national system, a basic math system, a 365-day calendar, a large-scale irrigation system, and papyrus writing paper.

Question 10

What is the most impressive achievement of the ancient Egyptians?

Answer 10

The pyramids.

Question 11

Who united Upper and Lower Egypt, and when did he unite them?

Answer 11

Menes united Upper and Lower Egypt around 3100 B.C.

Question 12

The Nile River flowed _____ through the center of the country.

Answer 12

North

Question 13

What is the many fan-shaped channels at the mouth of the Nile River called?

Answer 13

The Nile Delta

Question 14

Egypt possessed many natural protective barriers that surround it. There are waterfalls, mountains, the seas and the deserts - among others. The names of the seas are: ________ Sea to the North and the ___ Sea to the east. To the east and the west are deserts named ______ Desert and ______ Desert.

Answer 14

1. Mediterranean
2. Red
3. Eastern
4. Western