Oh my gosh, we covered so much in U4 I can hardly remember everything we did.
Directions for Unit 4 Study Sheet: you don’t need to answer all questions super
thoroughly or using complete sentences. Please just use this to guide you through
what will be on the exam and more or less as a tool to help you identify what you
need to study or come in for lunch tutoring for before the exam.
1. Main Concepts:
Give an example of each of the 6 characteristics of the Ancient Egyptian civilization:
Division of Labor:
Social Class:
Religion:
Culture:
Government:
Resources:
2. Physical geography of Egypt (resources and their value)
Egypt is what type of climate?
What is the difference between upper and lower Egypt? (hint – why does the Nile
flow North?)
What gifts (or benefits) did the Nile River provide?
3. Political geography of the Middle East (modern geography)
What modern countries are near Egypt today?
Egypt is on which continent? Use cardinal directions to describe WHERE on that
continent the country of Egypt is located.
What body of water does the Nile River empty into?
4. Seasons of the Nile (calendar)
Describe the three seasons in order, per the Egyptian Calendar.
The Egyptians created mini-month because they figured out….
5. Hieroglyphics (what are they and how do we know what they say)
Hieroglyphics: What did they look like?
What did each hieroglyphic represent?
6. Myths (Creation, Death) (summarize belief system)
What is a myth?
What beliefs did Egyptians have regarding the creation of life? The afterlife?
7. Polytheism (what is it and examples of)
Tell the story of the brothers Osiris and Seth or the myth of Ra and explain how this
connects to religion.
8. Purpose: Architecture (what were pyramids, obelisks, and temples)
What were the pyramids built for?
Who ordered the building of temples and pyramids and why?
9. Purpose: Art (examples of 6 characteristics of civilization)
Give an example of how art taught us about aspects of Egyptian Society
Describe what Egyptian art looks like – addressing common themes or materials
10. Mummification (procedure, purpose)
Why did Egyptians mummify the dead?
Describe the process of Mummification
11. Theocracies & Dynasties (define and compare)
How was Egyptian government different from what we have here in the United
States?
Timelines (what came first, the chicken or the mummy)
What is the difference between BCE and BC?
What is the difference between CE and AD?
Today is 2013 CE. The carrier pigeon went extinct in 1914 CE. How many years ago
was that?
Egyptians first started using the carrier pigeon to deliver mail around 5000 BCE.
Approximately how many thousands of years ago was that?
Put those three events, plus one other Ancient Egyptian event on an un-scaled
timeline.
12. Inventions (influences on modern civilizations, problem >solution)
Which Egyptian invention or piece of technology do you find the most useful
PERSONALLY? (couldn’t live without it?)
Which Egyptian invention or piece of technology do you think had the biggest
impact ECONOMICALLY (supported business)
Egyptians invented make-up, but not for fashion at first – the invention was much
more practical. Egyptians invented make-up because….
This is an example of which THEME OF GEOGRAPHY?
Homo Sapiens have some pretty awesome teeth. We have a mixture of canines for
eating meat and molars for grinding plants and grains. However, sometimes they
rot! Yikes. The Egyptians invented TWO things to deal with this problem. Please
list what came first, why it wasn’t good enough, and then what they invented later.
13. Social Class Structure (what was it, what caused it)
What was the biggest difference between Egyptian class structure and
Mesopotamian class structure?
14. Division of Labor (qualities of leadership)
What is a division of labor? What allows for this to occur?
(the rest of this objective will be assessed on review day during our data table
activity)
SKILLS:
textual evidence (find it)
sequencing (do it)
compare and contrast (Venn Diagram)
time management (finish the exam on time because we go on break!