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ANCIENT EGYPT STUDY GUIDE
1. What was the first pharaoh and rulers after him trying to symbolize by wearing a double crown?
Their rule over both Upper & Lower Egypt
2. What was the central belief in Egyptian religion?
The afterlife
3. What words best defines dynasty?
A series of rulers from the same family
4. What conclusion can you draw about people who participate in trade networks? (Hint:For what
reason do they do this?)
They benefited from the trade networks.
5. Who would the people of Egypt blame if crops did not grow or if disease struck?
The pharaoh who was both ruler and god.
6. Which area was probably the largest source of gold for the Egyptians? (Hint: This is where we get
the word “nub” of gold for a small piece of gold.) Nubia
7. Whose tomb, discovered in 1922, taught us much about Egyptian burial practices and beliefs?
King Tutankhamen.
8. How did Egyptians preserve their dead? Egyptians preserved bodies as mummies.
9. What was the name of the first pharaoh’s new capital at the southern tip of the Nile Delta?
Memphis
10. Besides providing a stable food diet, what other advantage did Egypt’s location provide for early
Egyptians? It had natural barriers to protect against invaders.
11. By the 1400s BC, Egypt was the leading military power. Based on this fact, what conclusion can you
make about Egypt’s resources. It was a rich country.
12. How did the Egyptian civilization develop? (Hint: Farms then ….V.) Farms grew into villages and
then cities.
13. The Nile River flows through what two important regions in Egypt? Upper & Lower Egypt.
14. Why were tombs filled with art, jewelry, and other treasures? The Egyptians believed the dead
enjoyed such materials in the afterlife.
15. Who drove the Hyksos out of Egypt to begin the New Kingdom? Ahmose of Thebes
16. What is a stone item that has a body of a lion and the face of a pharaoh that you would not find
inside a Egyptian temple? Sphinx
17. What job employed the most people in Egypt? farmer
18. How was Egypt able to build pyramids? (How was it paid for?) They collected taxes from the people.
19. The Nile River Valley was well suited for settlement. Why is this statement true? Explain.
The geography included areas for farming
20. The ancient Egyptians developed in a fertile river valley. Identify and describe TWO political,
cultural, or economic characteristics of the ancient Egyptian civilization.
Cultural * Writing System Hieroglyphics uses more than 600 symbols, mostly pictures of objects written on stone.
*Worshiped Many Gods (Polytheism) / God’s for everything:Ra Sun God; Osiris, Underworld god; Isis, magic
Goddess; Horus, sky god & god of pharaohs etc.
*Religion –w- Afterlife Focus
/ mummies ,Ka, pyramids, & burials –w-tombs filled –w- jewels food
Weapons for the afterlife.
Economic * Crops grew well in Egypt’s River Civilization/ Near the river that floods with vast amts. Of silt for a high
Near the Nile River-w-irrigation
/ yield of crops in the rich soil. Wheat, barley
Political - *Egypt was ruled by Pharaohs
The Pharaoh was considered not only a leader but was also considered a
And were responsible for trade, war, disease/ God and was worshiped as a God. He was blamed if things went wrong.
21. Name the 3 geographical features that protected Egypt from invasion. Cataracts;/ Bodies of water
like the Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, & Nile River; /Deserts such as the Sahara Desert
22. What was the southern part of Ancient Egypt called? Upper Egypt
23. What helped historians understand hieroglyphics? Rosetta Stone
24. What is the name for the triangular-shaped area of soil deposited by the river where the Nile
branches out before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea? delta
25. Who wrote and copied religious and literary texts? scribes