Name: ________________________________ Date: ____________________________ Period: _____
Engineering an Empire: Egypt Video Guide - Part 1
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Directions: Watch and listen to the presentation, then fill in the blanks and answer the questions
below.
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5,000 years ago, in an age when Greece and Rome were but a distant dream, one civilization
conceived the impossible and built the unimaginable.
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Egypt’s engineers boldly redefined limits of architectural possibility but their road to eternal
glory was riddled with _______________, betrayal, and outright disaster.
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Downhill these streams combine to form the Blue Nile, which accelerates for 850
miles before slamming into its sister river, the _______________ Nile in Sudan.
4
In Egypt, _______________ is an annual event.
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What did Menes do to protect the city of Memphis?
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a
He built a drainage basin.
b
He built a 49 foot dam.
c
He moved the city to high ground.
When we think of moving a ten ton block of stone, we use a crane. In Egypt, how would a
similar stone be moved? _________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
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When Menes finally united all of the people of Egypt under one flag (one civilization) around
_______________ B.C., the empire of Egypt was born.
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What was the equivalent to an interstate highway system? ______________________________
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Initially the tombs of Egypt’s pharaohs were simply mud brick structures called __________.
a
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pyramids
b
pueblos
c
mastabas
All told, the ancient Egyptians build more than one hundred of them (pyramids), ___________
still stand today.
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Directions: Watch and listen to the presentation, then fill in the blanks and answer the questions
below.
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2667 B.C., in Egypt a new king is crowned. His name is _______________, the second ruler of
Egypt’s Old Kingdom period.
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How would Djoser’s tomb differ from those of his predecessors? _________________________
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In all, five hundreds of these divisions, numbering some _______________ men were recruited
to build Djoser’s burial complex.
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Once the stones are extracted, they have to be hauled over _______________ desert terrain
from the quarry to the construction site using nothing more than rope, sleds, muscle, and sweat.
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The groundbreaking form would come to be known as a step _______________.
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2613 B.C., thirty-five years after the death of Djoser, a pharaoh named _______________
ascends to the throne and founds Egypt’s Fourth dynasty or ruling family.
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Explain one of the three theories about the kind of ramp that was used to make Snefru’s Red
pyramid? ______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
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How did Snefru’ builders build the roof to the room that housed Snefru’s remains so that it
would disperse the pressure of the millions of tons of rocks above it? _____________________
______________________________________________________________________________
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Snefru’s son and _______________, Kufu, would build on the engineering foundation laid by his
father and create the biggest and most perfect pyramid ever constructed - the Great Pyramid at
Giza.
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The era is Egypt’s _______________ Kingdom period, a time remembered by later generations
as the empire’s golden age.
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