Egypt

Question 1

What are Egyptians famous for?

Answer 1

The pyramids

Question 2

True or False

They only depended on the Nile for water

Answer 2

False

They depended on the Nile for everything.

Question 3

Where was the Nile near ?

Answer 3

Near the civilization of Egypt.

Question 4

True or False

It always rained in the Nile River Valley

Answer 4

False

Question 5

True or False

It rains in the Ethiopian Highlands

Answer 5

True

Question 6

True or False

Egyptians thought the goddess Isis made it flood

Answer 6

True

Question 7

What did the floods bring?

Answer 7

Rich soil

Question 8

What the Egyptians do to irrigate their crops?

Answer 8

They created ditches and canals to irrigate their crops..

Question 9

Who were Egyptians ruled by?

Answer 9

A Pharaoh

Question 10

True or False

Pharaohs wore double crowns to present rule over Upper and Lower Egypt.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

What is a scarab?

Answer 11

A beetle a sign of the sun God Rah.

Question 12

People who could were important government officials, what are they called?

Answer 12

Scribes

Question 13

What did they record on hieroglyphics on temple and tomb walls?

Answer 13

They recorded their beliefs.

Question 14

What was the life after death called and what type of fields was their?

Answer 14

The after life and there were fields of reeds

Question 15

Describe how God Anubis looked?

Answer 15

Head of a jackal.

Question 16

What did Anubis do to the persons heart?

Answer 16

He weighed them.

Question 17

When Anubis weighs a heart what did he weigh to?

Answer 17

A feather

Question 18

If the heart of the person was heavier than a feather what would they do?

Answer 18

They can’t reach the afterlife so the Demon Ammit (head of a crocodile and body of a lion and hippo) would eat the heart.

Question 19

If the heart of of the person was lighter than a feather what would they do?

Answer 19

They can reach the afterlife but first they must be brought to the Gods and declare they had done no evil in their life and they killed nobody then they could reach the afterlife.

Question 20

True or False

2000 years ago Upper and Egypt grew up by the nile

Answer 20

False

5000 years ago

Question 21

True or False

Capital of new kingdom Memphis

Answer 21

False

Question 22

True or False

Capital of new kingdom Memphis?

Answer 22

False

Question 23

True or False

Capital of the old kingdom Memphis?

Answer 23

True

Question 24

How do we know about ancient Egypt?(3 examples)

Answer 24

1. Remains of tombs
2. Written records
3. Wall painting ( shows religious rituals, royal conquests and scenes from everyday life )

Question 25

What month would the Nile flood?

Answer 25

Every July

Question 26

When the Nile flooded, what colour mud would there be?

Answer 26

Rich black mud.

Question 27

What did Egypt's wealth come from

Answer 27

Farming

Question 28

Why is the river Nile regarded as the life source of Egypt? Give 10 uses of the river.

Answer 28

Because it provides them with everything they need. 1. Transport (move goods for trading) 2. Building Materials (mud, bricks, wood, reeds) 3. Recreation (fishing , swimming) 4. Farming (irrigation, fertile soil) 5. Water (washing, cooking, drinking)

Question 29

What do scribes use to write hieroglyphics?

Answer 29

They use reed pens and write on papyrus.

Question 30

Was grain used like money and how?

Answer 30

Yes,because it was the most important ctop they used it to pay taxes and exchange for other goods.

Question 31

Why did Egyptians make mummies?

Answer 31

To preserve the dead bodies to reach the afterlife.

Question 32

True/false | Mummification is a short and cheap process that takes 40 days.

Answer 32

False. | Mummification is a long expensive process and takes 70 days

Question 33

What did Egyptians use to dry the dead body and prevent rotting?

Answer 33

Chemical natron.

Question 34

What did they mummify?

Answer 34

Kings, queens and nobles

Question 35

What is the process of mummification?

Answer 35

1. Stomach, intestines, lungs and liver removed and preserved in canopic jars next to the body 2. Brain pulled out the head through the nose with a long hook. 3. The body was covered with natron and dried for 40 days. 4. The inside of the body was stuffed to keep its shape 5. The body was wrapped in bandages. 6. Religious ceremony to help get the body to the afterlife.

Question 36

What did scribes record?

Answer 36

Records of Pharaoh, lists of taxes and possesions.

Question 37

How many picture are there in hieroglyphics

Answer 37

700 pictures