Name ____________________________________________ Date _______________________
Answer the following questions while reading the Overview of Egypt pages 40 to 44.
1. What did archaeologist see when they lowered a camera into a deep underground chamber of
The Great Pyramid in Giza?
2. Who figured out the meaning of hieroglyphics?
3. What is the Rosetta Stone?
4. What Greek historian called Egypt “the gift of the Nile?”
5. How long is the Nile?
6. What are cataracts?
7. What is a delta?
8. What was the fertile land south of the delta region of Egypt called?
9. What was the delta region of Egypt called?
10. Because of irrigation, how many square miles of good farming land was in Egypt?
11. What crops were grown in ancient Egypt?
12. What caused famines, mass deaths, and wide-spread confusion between 2250 B.C and 1959
B.C.?
13. What geographic features helped protect Egypt from invasion?
14. What are some of the natural resources of ancient Egypt?
15. What things were made from papyrus?
16. What are nomes?
17. How many nomes were in Lower Egypt?
18. How many nomes were in Upper Egypt?
19. According to legend, what king united Lower and Upper Egypt sometime between 3200 B.C.
and 2780 B.C.?
20. What became the capital of the newly united Egypt?