Download egypt and kush unit test study guide

Name/ SR#___________________________
Period___________________________
Date___________________________
EGYPT AND KUSH UNIT TEST STUDY GUIDE
Directions: For each question answer with a complete sentence and place the page number you found the
answer on. You will share your answers later so have page #s
***Use your textbook-notes-maps-and classmates to find the answers***
PART ONE: GEOGRAPHY
6.2.1 Students locate and describe the major river systems and discuss the
physical settings that supported permanent settlement and early civilizations.
Locate the following things on a map
-Nile River
-Upper Egypt
-Lower Egypt
-Cataracts
-Kush
-Nubia
-Nubian Desert
-Mediterranean Sea
-Red Sea
-Nile Delta
-Nile River Valley
Pg. #_____
Pg. #_____
Pg. #_____
Pg. #_____
Pg. #_____
Pg. #_____
Pg. #_____
Pg. #_____
Pg. #_____
Pg. #_____
Pg. #_____
Color
Water
Desert
Fertile Soil
Egypt
Kush
Blue
Brown
Green
Yellow
Red
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
1
Name/ SR#___________________________
Period___________________________
Date___________________________
6.2.2 Students trace the development of agricultural techniques that permitted the
production of economic surplus and the emergence of cities as centers of culture and
power.
1) What is the most important environmental factor for humans and how did the Egyptians get it? Pg.
#_____
2) What is topography and how did it affect Egyptians? Explain their climate. Pg. #_____
3) What is the Nile Delta and why is it so important? Pg. #_____
4) What was the most important physical feature of Egypt and Kush? Why was it so important? Pg. #_____
5) What type of things did Egyptians get from the local vegetation? Pg. #_____
6) What physical features led to the settlement of Egypt and Kush? Pg. #_____
7) What environmental factors led to settlement of Egypt and Kush? Pg. #_____
8) What is Agriculture and what does it have to do with Egypt? Pg. #_____
9) What were the 3 seasons of the Nile River? Explain what they were. Pg. #_____
2
Name/ SR#___________________________
Period___________________________
Date___________________________
6.2.3 Students understand the relationship between religion and the social and
political order in Mesopotamia and Egypt.
1) What is a Pharaoh and why was he important? Pg. #_____
2) Why are priests ranked so high on the social pyramid? Pg. #_____
3) What was the role of woman in Egyptian society? What rights did they have and how were they
treated compared to men? Pg. #_____
4) What was the daily life and responsibilities of a Government Official? Pg. #_____
5) What was the daily life and responsibilities of the Priest? Pg. #_____
6) What was the daily life and responsibilities of a Scribe? Pg. #_____
7) What was the daily life and responsibilities of an Artisan? Pg. #_____
8) What was the daily life and responsibilities of a Peasant? Pg. #_____
9) What did Egyptian gods look like? What did people do to honor them? Pg. #_____
10) What did most Egyptians blame weather and natural disasters on? Pg. #_____
11) Did Egypt and Kush have similar gods? If so explain why? Pg. #_____
12) What did the Egyptian’s believe the afterlife was like? How did they prepare for it? Pg. #_____
3
Name/ SR#___________________________
Period___________________________
Date___________________________
6.2.5 Students discuss the main features of Egyptian art and architecture.
1) What are the three periods of ancient Egypt and which was the most important? Why? Pg. #_____
2) Draw a picture of an obelisk and explain what they were used for. Pg. #_____
3) Why is the Pyramid of Giza not a step pyramid? Explain the differences. Pg. #_____
4) Who built the Pyramid of Giza and what was it built for? Pg. #_____
5) Why did Kush and Egypt have similar architecture? Pg. #_____
6) How did the modern scientists decode hieroglyphics for the first time? What did they use? Pg.
#_____
6.2.6 Describe the role of Egyptian trade in the eastern Mediterranean and Nile Valley
1) What made it possible for the Assyrians to kick the Kushites out of Egypt? What did the
Kushites do in response? Pg. #_____
2) Explain the history of wars in Egypt. Who conquered who and explain the history in order.
Pg. #_____
6.2.7 - Understand the significance of Queen Hatshepsut and Ramses the Great.
1) Who was Queen Hatshepsut and what where her greatest accomplishments? Pg. #_____
2) What did Hatshepsut do to expand Egypt and make it more powerful? Pg. #_____
4
Name/ SR#___________________________
Period___________________________
Date___________________________
3) Why did Hatshepsut have to disguise her identity? What did this say about the treatment of
women in Ancient Egypt? Pg. #_____
4) What was the greatest accomplishment of Ramses the II? Pg. #_____
5) What was the personality of Ramses like? What evidence makes people believe this?
6.2.8 - Identify the location of the Kush civilization and describe its political,
commercial, and cultural relations with Egypt.
1) What was the relationship like between Kush and Egypt? What evidence is there of this?
Pg. #_____
2) If you lived in Egypt, which direction would you travel to get to Kush. Pg. #_____
3) Which way did the Nile River flow? Explain why it went in this direction. Pg. #_____
6.2.9 - Students trace the evolution of language and its written forms
1) What are hieroglyphics and how are the different from an alphabet?
2) Look at various examples of Hieroglyphics with people in them. What do you notice is
similar about the way people are drawn in hieroglyphics? Pg. #_____
5
Name/ SR#___________________________
Period___________________________
Date___________________________
Important Vocabulary to Know:
Kush: The kingdom to the south of Egypt, which shared a very complex relationship. They shared
many cultural similarities and often were at peace and war.
Pharaoh: the ruler of the Egyptian people, also thought to be a god. The pharaoh was in charge of
keeping the Egyptians happy and safe. If things went wrong in Egypt, the pharaoh was often to
blame because he was thought to be a God who could control everything.
Hatshepsut
Ramses
Sphinx
Architecture
Pyramid
Obelisk
Cartouche
Afterlife
Social Structure
Social Pyramid
6
Name/ SR#___________________________
Period___________________________
Date___________________________
Social Class
Benefit/Disadvantage
Commercial
Political
Nubia
Reservoir
Canal
Iron
Meroë
Assyrians
7