THIRD QUARTER

EGYPT – WORKSHEET 1
1) This is a Map of ancient Egypt, showing the major cities and archeological sites along
the Nile River, from Abu Simbel in the south to Alexandria in the north
a. Colour the Nile River
b. Colour the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea

2) Why do you think the Nile River was so important for this civilization?

Because the Nile River provided fertile land with the LIMO.
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3) Social roles.
a. Look at the chart in pag 156 (the social pyramid) What activities are being
performed? At what level of the pyramid is most of the hard work done?
 THERE WERE 6 different SOCIAL CLASSES
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b. What did the rulers = PHARAOS and the priests do? Why?
RULES = leyes
They passed LAWS to organize the empire

c. Why was Egypt a good place for women?

Because women had the same rights as men

d. Did everyone go to school?

4) Expanding knowledge

a. Look at the picture. What were they doing?

THE EGYPTIANS WERE FARMING

b) Egyptians created the 1º FIRST calendar. How did they do that?

c) Writing System: What is…?

Hieroglyphs:___They were PICTOGRAMS AND SYMBOLS. A SYSTEM OF WRITING
________________________________________________________________ Papyrus
__: AN EGYPTIAN PLANT THE EGYPTIANS TRANSFORMED TO MAKE PAPER.
THEY WROTE IN INK

- Can you write your name using the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics?
5) Beliefs and Religion
a. Were they polytheistic people?
YES, THEY Were. THEY BELIEVED IN MANY GODS AND GODDESSES

b. What kind = class = type of gods did they worship?

They WORSHIPED gods and goddesses from nature, especially the sun and
animals

c. What did Egyptians think about the afterlife?

They BELIEVED in the LIFE AFTER DEATH. So, the BODY was mummified.
And, they put food, water treasure, gold, mummified pets and ships in the tombs

EGYPT – WORKSHEET 2
COMPLETE THE SENTENCES

Egypt was divided into _LOWER _and _UPPER Egypt. A legend says that a king called
__NARMER_____unified the two lands.
A _DINASSTY__is a line of rulers from the same family. When a king died, his son took
power and so on. More than _30_dynasties ruled ancient Egypt.

Historians divided Egyptian dynasties into ___OLD KINGDOM_____, __MIDDLE

KINGDOM________ and __NEW KIGDOM__.

SELECT TRUE OR FALSE

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At the beginning (en un principio) the word “pharaoh” was the title of the
king and later became the name of the king`s palace

__________________________A pharaoh was the king or queen of the

empire
they built temples, statues and
palaces__________________________________

T Egyptians thought (think) the pharaohs were the child of a god or the god
himself. For that reason government and religion were not separated

The Pharaoh was the representative of god on Earth

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Khufu ordered the largest pyramid ever built to show love to his wife

__KUFU built a super big pyramid because he WANTED to have a pyramid

bigger than his father

T Building pyramids was not easy, miners cut the stones and others pulled
the stones up the ramps. Farmers worked in the pyramids when the Nile
flooded their lands and stonecutters worked all year round.

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A new city called Tiza was created near the pyramid.

A new city called Giza was …_

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“New Kingdom” was the name given to a period with weak (DEBIL) / strong
()central governments. NEW KINGDOM WAS A PERIOD WITH STRONG
GOVERNMENT. IT was a time of wealth, prosperity, and power.
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ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

The “New Kingdom” included the most powerful rulers who set up the capital in Thebes.

El New Kingdom incluyó a los gobernantes más poderosos que establecieron la capital en
Thebes

1) A woman Pharaoh — Queen Hatshepsut`

a. What was the significance of Queen Hatshepsut`s rule?

b. Trade____ ______Queen Hatshepsut expanded
c. Monuments __Queen Hatshepsut built temples and OBELISKS

2) A reforming Pharaoh – Akhenaton

a. How did Akhenaton try Egyptian religion?
Akhenaton wanted a ONE GOD RELIGION = MONOTHEISTIC. HE
PREFERRED THE SUN GOD.
b. How did the reform end?

WHEN Akhenaton died, the Egyptians were POLYTHEISTIC as in the past

3) A powerful Pharaoh

In 1279 bc, 44 years after Tutankhamen died, another pharaoh took the throne. This king
reigned _66_years; it was the __LONGEST__reign in history. His name was__RAMSES
II __.

He _EXPANDED____the empire to the ____SOUTH___ into the African kingdom of

Nubia and to the east where he fought the ___HITITTES__.

Ramses reigned until he was 90 years old so his government was very_STABLE, _.
LONG, GOOD, POWERFUL

It was a peaceful time too because there was no enemy threatening (AMENAZANDO)
Egypt. It was a calm and happy time because__RAMSES MADE PEACE WITH THE
HITTITES

After Ramses II died a series of FOREING RULERS_ ruled Egypt. One of it was
_ALEXANDER the GREAT___king of Macedonia who conquered Egypt. The last
Macedonian ruler was__CLEOPATRA__until the Roman empire took control.