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Chapter Summary Chapter 3/ Lesson 2 Use textbook p. 88-95 for help. Name ______________________________ Date _____________________Pd. ______ The Kingdoms of Egypt Although communities along the Nile had learned to cooperate, wars between the villages were frequent. ___________________, King of Upper Egypt, overthrew the king of ___________________ Egypt and had a new crown made that stood for the ___________________ of Egypt. Menes became the first pharaoh of Egypt. The word ___________________ refers to the “great palace” in which the rulers of Egypt lived. Egypt became the largest empire of its time. Menes made ___________________ his capital. Local leaders performed their regular duties such as collecting ___________________ and serving as judges, but they also had to report to the new government. Egypt’s pharaoh’s had religious duties, as well as political power. The most important Egyptian god was ___________________, the sun god. The Egyptians believed that Ra gave life to earth. Ancient Egyptians believed they would need their bodies in the ___________________. They preserved the dead with ___________________. Huge stone structures called ___________________ were built as tombs, or burial places, for the pharaohs. They pyramids are important sources of information about ancient Egypt. The largest pyramid was the ___________________ of Pharaoh ___________________. The pyramids used large amounts of Egypt’s ___________________. Egyptians developed a system of writing called ___________________. Only boys could become ___________________. They wrote on ___________________, a reed plant. The reeds were pressed together to form a kind of paper. Scribes kept accurate records of taxes and of the pharaoh’s goods. Scribes also performed other writing duties. Egypt was conquered by the ___________________ around 300 B.C. Gradually, the meaning of hieroglyphics was lost. In 1822, a French scholar named ___________________ figured out how to read hieroglyphics using the ___________________. The ancient Egyptians did not use ___________________. Instead, the pharaoh took a part of everything made in Egypt. The pharaoh’s taxes also included days of work. WORD BANK Great Pyramid Khufu Scribes Rosetta Stone Money Greeks Papyrus Memphis Lower Menes Taxes Pyramids Resources Mummification Ra Hieroglyphics Unification Pharaoh Jean Champollion Afterlife