Egyptian Civilization

Question 1

Why was Egypt called the gift of nile?

Answer 1

Nile river flowed on either side of the most fertile plains for 15-20 kms. It provided food, fodder and uninterrupted water supply. The food security provided sufficient leisure for the growth of the civilization. Without nile Egyptian civilization would not have developed.

Question 2

When did Egyptian civilization begin? Till when did it continue?

Answer 2

This great civilization began 7000 years ago. It continued for more than 3000 years.

Question 3

Who was sun god

Answer 3

Ra

Question 4

Osiris was_______________

Answer 4

The god of dead or underworld

Question 5

Who was the goddess of motherhood?

Answer 5

Isis

Question 6

Who was the wife of osiris

Answer 6

Isis

Question 7

How many dynasties have ruled Egypt for more than 3000 years

Answer 7

30

Question 8

Explain the political condition in Egypt

Answer 8

The early people settled into villages, which developed into cities and later city states. This is known as pre-dynastic period. These kings were engaged in city-state quarrels. This made way to birth of kingdoms. No dynasty survived for more than 6-7 generations

Question 9

Write a short note on learning and literature of Egyptian civilization

Answer 9

Egyptians developed a pictographic writing. It is one of the earliest forms of writing. Egyptian writing is called heiroglyphics. Glyph means sign. Heiroglyphics contains hundreds of signs . Some of them stand for complete words while others represent sounds. Papyrus was used for writing ‘the book of dead’, the coffin text ,the tale of anupu and bitiu etc are important books discovered.
Egyptians had fair knowledge of medicine, geometry, calenders, astronomy and mathematics. Most of the scholars of ancient Egypt belonged to priestly class. The construction of huge pyramids proves beyond doubt that Egyptians had sound knowledge of geometry and arithmetic.
They could measure the areas of triangle, rectangles, squares, circles and hexagons. They had clear ideas about addition, subtraction and division. However the had no idea about multiplication. They were the first to develop a fraction system.
They made a war distinction between stars and planets.their calendar was based on sun and known as solar calendar. The developed a calender of 365 days, with 12 months each and of 3p days a month. They divided the year into 3 seasons of 4 months each.