The Land by The Nile Flashcards
Who ruled Egypt in 3100 BC?
King Menes
When did King Menes rule Egypt?
3100 BC
How many times a year does heavy rain fill Egypt’s sources, causing the river to swell and burst its banks, flooding the whole land
Twice
How much rain does Egypt get?
Very little
What were kings of Egypt called?
Pharaohs
When was one such pharaoh known as “King Cheops” alive?
2500 BC
For thirty years, how many people toiled for the pharaoh whenever they weren’t working in the fields?
Some hundred thousand
Why do pharaohs want to build such a gigantic tomb?
Because it is all part of their religion
The Egyptians believed in ____________.
Many gods
According to the Egyptians, who was known as the “Sun god”
Amon
Who was the god in The Kingdom of the Dead?
Anubis
For how long has the Sphinx has now been guarding the tombs of the pharaohs?
More than five thousand years
What has been guarding the tombs of the pharaohs for more than five thousand years?
The Sphinx
What did the Egyptians believe in?
Although a man’s soul left his body when he died, for some reason the soul went on needing that body, and would suffer if it crumbled into dust
What was one way the Egyptians made an ingenious way of preserving the bodies of the dead?
They rubbed their bodies with ointments.
How did the Egyptians preserved the bodies of the dead?
They rubbed them with ointments and the juices of certain plants, and bandaged them with long strips of cloth so that they wouldn’t decay
A mummy was placed inside a coffin made of which materials?
Wood, the wooden coffin in one of stone, and the stone one buried, not in the earth, but in a tomb that was chiseled out of the rock
Who was “King Cheops” known as?
“Sun of the son”
What was a tomb intended to be?
A dwelling for the soul when it returned to visit its body
What helped helped give us a better picture of ancient Egyptian life?
The great stone statues and the wonderfully bright and vivid wall paintings