Chap 1 Ancient egypt

Question 0

What is the important river that runs through Egypt?

Answer 0

Nile River

Question 1

Where is Egypt?

Answer 1

North of Africa

Question 2

What direction does the Nile run?

Answer 2

From north to south

Question 3

What were the early Egyptians?

Answer 3

Hunters and herdsman

Question 4

When did the great Egyptian civilization begin?

Answer 4

8000 years ago they moved down to the fertile Nile Valley.

Question 5

What happened after they moved to the Nile Valley?

Answer 5

They built a well organized society.

Question 6

What do Archaeologists do?

Answer 6

Find about more about how people lived in the past.

Question 7

How do archaeologists do this?

Answer 7

They study the remains of buildings and graves and tool ect.

Question 8

How have we learnt about ancient Egypt?

Answer 8

From murals. They are painted on walls of buildings and writing on tombs.

Question 9

Act 1

Answer 9

Pg 2

Question 10

The Nile River

Floods its banks every year when?

Answer 10

Between July and October

Question 11

What does the water cover?

Answer 11

A large flood plain and deposits black mud on the land.

Question 12

What do the Egyptians call this the black mud.

Answer 12

Kemet which means black lands.

Question 13

What happens to the soil left behind?

Answer 13

It is very fertile. And crops grew very well

Question 14

What happened in time along the Nile?

Answer 14

Small farming towns developed.

Question 15

Farming next to the Nile

Why did people come and live next to the Nile?

Answer 15

Water

Fertile lands

Question 16

What happened when more and more people came and lived next to the Nile.

Answer 16

The people had to move further back away from the water so they had to build canals.

Question 17

What did they use to water their crops.

Answer 17

Shaduf

Question 18

Do they still use shadufs today?

Answer 18

Yes

Question 19

Why did the farmers build extra canals.

Answer 19

To control the extra water from the yearly floods.

Question 20

How did they get water to their crops.

Answer 20

They divided the lands into blocks with canals and small walls.
When the river rose the extra water flowed into the canals.
The low walls stopped the fertile mud from flowing back to the river.

Question 21

Act 2.

Answer 21

Pg 4.

Question 22

How society was organized.

Name some cities

Answer 22

Memphis
Rosetta
Alexandra

Question 23

The Pharaohs

Egypt was ruled by who

Answer 23

Pharaohs

Question 24

What did the Pharaohs do?

Answer 24

They made sure the different people worked together in an orderly way.

Question 25

What did the Egyptians believe?

Answer 25

That the Pharaohs was a god

That he had great powers and controlled the flood.

Question 26

Where did the Pharaohs live?

Answer 26

In palaces
They were very rich.
Had lots of gold and jewels.

Question 27

Explain the lay out of the Pharaohs palace.

Answer 27

The big palace.
Surrounded by smaller buildings where his scribes lives
Most NB room was the throne room. The Pharaohs would have NB meetings in this room.

Question 28

What did the scribes do?

Answer 28

They could read and write
Kept records of daily life.
Write letters to kings of other countries.
They wrote instructions from the Pharaohs to the officials.

Question 29

What did the Pharaohs give the Kings of other countries?

Answer 29

Gifts of gold and jewellery

Question 30

What did he reward his officials with.

Answer 30

Golden geese or fish.

Question 31

What were the inside of the Pharaohs palace decorated with?

Answer 31

Pictures of animals, birds and plants and tress in bright colours.

Question 32

What happened when the Pharaohs died.

Answer 32

They were buried in tombs.

Many of their treasures were buried with them.

Question 33

Who was Tutankhamun?

Answer 33

A Pharaohs between 1361 and 1352 BC
His tomb was discovered in 1922
It contained many treasures and a golden mask.

Question 34

How did the poor people live

Answer 34

4 main rooms
A kitchen
Storage room
Living room
Bedroom
Cellar underground used for storing things. 
Stairs leading to a flat roof.

Question 35

How did rich people live?

Answer 35

In bigger houses with many rooms.
Shadow pool where fish were kept.
They had many servants and kept dogs and cats for pets.

Question 36

How did ordinary people live.

Answer 36

Girls did not go to school

Boys were taught to read and write.

Question 37

What happened when they reached the age of 10?

Answer 37

Boys had to help their dads
Girls their mums
They had time to play as well with toys made from clay or wood. Tops and balls