Chapter 5 Ancient Egypt

Lesson 1 pages 146-151

Barren

Cataract

Fertile

1. Where does the Nile River begin and end?

2. How was the flooding of the Nile different from that of the Tigris and Euphrates?

3. Why was the Nile River important?

4. What kind of climate were the areas of Egypt that were not near the Nile?

5. How did the Egyptians use the land around the Nile?

6. What crops did the Egyptians grow? 7. How did they use the wheat that they grew?

8. What 3 agricultural techniques did ancient Egyptians use?

9. What economic activities developed in Egypt?

10.How did geography affect Egypt’s economy?

11.How did trade along the Nile come about?

12.Looks for the effects of each event listed in the chart.

Causes Effects

Floods

New Agricultural techniques

Many land resources Chapter 5 Lesson 2 pages 154- 161

Scribe

Hieroglyph

Papyrus

Afterlife

Embalm

1. How did work and social roles affect people in ancient Egypt?

2. What were the levels of Egyptian society?

3. What duties did the priests have?

4. How does the shape of the pyramid relate to the levels of Egyptian society?

5. What was childhood like for Egyptian children?

6. How did they make papyrus? 7. What advances in learning did the Egyptians make?

8. How did the Egyptians belief about the afterlife differ from the Sumerians’ belief?

9. Why did Egyptians make mummies?

10.How did they make mummies?

11.What religious beliefs did Egyptians hold?

12.What did they think happened after death?

13.As you read record the information in each category in the categorizing web

Egyptian Culture

Religion Work and Family Learning Chapter 5 Lesson 3 pages 164-170

Dynasty

Succession

Pharaoh

Pyramid

Step pyramid

1. When did the 1st dynasty of the Egyptian Empire begin?

2. What kind of government ruled Egypt after it was united?

3. If the gods didn’t make mistakes, who then did they blame?

4. How were religion and government linked in ancient Egypt?

5. How did the make the great pyramid of Giza?

6. Why did the pharaohs build pyramids? 7. What was found inside the pyramids?

8. Why did they stop building large pyramids?

9. What happened to Egypt when centralized rule weakened?

10.How was the middle kingdom different from the old kingdom?

11. To summarize means to condense information into fewer words. Jot down the main ideas and important details in lesson 3. Then use them to write a summary of the lesson.

Main ideas/details Main ideas/details Main ideas/ details

Summary about the Pyramids: Chapter 5 Lesson 4 pages 172-177

Hatshepsut

Obelisk

Ramses II

1. What was the significance of Queen Hatshepsut’s rule?

2. How did Akhenaton try to change Egyptian religion?

3. What did he do to avoid conflict with the other priests?

4. What reform in art happened under Akhenaton?

5. Who took over after Akhenaton’s death and what changes did he bring about?

6. How long did Ramses II rule Egypt? 7. How did Ramses II expand Egypt?

8. What were Ramses II’s accomplishments?

9. Of the 3 New Kingdom pharaohs in this lesson, which do you think had the greatest effect on Egypt? Why?

10.As you read lesson 4 note things that happened in the reigns of the pharaohs discussed. Create a timeline to show the order of important events. Include the date, the pharaoh, and an event.

Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt