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Egypt – Engineering an Empire Movie Guide
Without computers or cranes!
Name:________________________________
As you watch the movie, circle the correct bolded answer.
1. The first dam in recorded history is in Memphis or Giza?
2. Who is the first Pharaoh of Egypt, Menes or Obama?
3. Did the first Pharaoh of Egypt unite Upper and Lower Egypt?
Yes or No
4. 100,000 or 1,000,000 tons of rock were needed to build the dam at Mesa da kafa?
5. When building ancient people thought in terms of using machines or people?
6. Why did the Egyptians not have to worry about roads?
A.
B.
C.
D.
They already had roads.
Wheels did not exist so no need for roads
They did not need them because of the Nile.
Mr. McGhee went back in time and built them for the Egyptians.
7. Royal tombs were built because Pharaohs thought they would
A. Have slaves live in their tombs and take care of their bodies
B. Live in the tombs during the After life.
8. How many pyramids did the ancient Egyptians build?
A. 5
B. 100
C. 1,000
9. Djoser became the first Pharaoh to be thought of as a God. True or False
10. Djoser’s tomb is the first to use stone? True or False
11. Tombs that face the west or east have the promise of rebirth and resurrection.
12. Workers on Djoser’s tomb used, wheels to get stone to the tomb or dragged the
stone to the tomb because wheels were of little use.
13. Did the pyramid at Meydum collapse? Yes or No
14. The first true pyramid was built at Meydum or Dashur?
15. Snefru’s Red pyramid is the first red pyramid or the first smoothed sided pyramid?
16. Snefru’s is buried in:
A. The Red pyramid
B. The Bent pyramid
C. We don’t know
17. The Great Pyramid at Giza four sides rise precisely at:
A. 51 degrees
B. 49 degrees
C. 3 degrees
18. Sesostris III super forts can or cannot be visited?
19. Egyptian obelisks were moved by roads or during the yearly floods of the Nile?
20. How did ancient Egyptians move obelisks?
We don’t know for sure or
By hooks and ladders
21. Queen Hatshepsut was the most powerful woman in Egyptian history.
A. She disappeared mysteriously and her body was never found
B. She is buried in the Temple of Pakhet.
22. Amenhotep IV was the first Pharaoh to require his subjects to….
Pay taxes
23. Why is Ramesses II so great?
This is the area to jot down ideas.
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Bow to him and the royal family.
Why is Ramesses II so great? Answer in complete sentences in this area using facts from above.
24. What caused the decline of the New Kingdom?
Disease and Drought
Weak leadership and Economic Depression
25. Why did the Egyptian Pharaohs want their subjects to think of them as a God?
26. What modern day buildings or objects can you think of that are like any of the Egyptian
buildings you have just seen?