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(His) Unit2: P3
Ancient Near-East: Ancient Egypt
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What river brought life to Egypt? | The Nile River |
| How wide was the furtile area (on average) from the Nile? | A mile |
| The Nile flows from what to what? | Upper Egypt to the Meddertianian Sea |
| Where did most people live in Egypt, why? | In lower Egypt or by the Delta, because it was more furtile |
| Why is the Nile good? | The Nile was a source of life, it was a source of defence, and it was a source of comenerence or transportaion |
| What is a Fayum? | A fayum is a very shallow swampy lake |
| What was so special about the fayum? | It preserved a lot of articfacts that the Egyptians threw away in the Nile |
| What did West and East sides of the Nile represent? | The west was death, and the East was life |
| What was the Old Kingdom known for? | There monuments |
| What are some famouse momuments from the Old Kingdom? | The Pyramids of Giza and some Mastaba (looked a lot like zigarats) |
| What are the theories on who built the pyramids? | At first it was the slaves, but people now believe they were volenteers because of how well the were treated |
| How long did it take to build a pyramid? | 30-40 years |
| What was Middle Egypt known for? | the were known for getting destroyed by the Ocean Peoples. |
| Why did Egypt not like the Hebrews? | They had xenphobia, or when there're afraid of foreners so when they grew to big they grew scared of them |
| What was the New Kingdom known for? | They were known for there People |
| Who are some famouse people from the New Kingdom? | Hashept-A women who was bascically pharoah Amenhotep-tried to make the nation henotheism by worshiping only the sun god Tutankhamun-wasn't very rich ruled younge and died younge doin't known if he was murded though Ramessesll- known for him military |
| What did Egyptians religon revolve around? | Death, phycial and spiritual |
| What did the body do when it died | The soul would then be taken to the after-life |
| Kahopic Jar | The jars that would store the pharaohs organs |
| Why would the kill a lot of slaves? | So the would aid the Pharaoh in his after-life |
| Mummie | When you preserve a body through mummification |
| What did the economy of Egypt revole around | The death indistrey |
| Heiroglyphics | sacrid writting, or the Egyptians language |
| Can people read Heiroglyphics? | Yes, but at first no because it was a dead langeage |
| How did Heiroglyphics becaome readable? | Through the Rosetta Stone, which had heiroglyphics, greek, and demotic on it |
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