The Old Kingdom
A. Directions: Write the correct word from the Word Bank to complete each sentence.
Afterlife
caravan
Lower Egypt Memphis
project
pyramids
civil war
Menes
tomb
double crown
Old Kingdom
unite
economy
pharaoh
Upper Egypt
1) I am where the people of the north lived. _______________
2) People like me ruled Egypt. _______________
3) Builders did not have tools for cutting stone when they built me._______________
4) I am a place where Egyptians buried their dead rulers. _______________
5) Egyptians wanted their rulers to be comfortable in me, so they buried treasures along with the bodies. _______________
6) I am a word that means to bring together as one. _______________
7) I am a group of traders traveling together through a desert. _______________
8) Rulers of Egypt wore me to show that Egypt was united. _______________
9) I am where the people of the south lived. _______________
10) I am the capital built where Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt meet._______________
11) I am another name for a series of jobs. _______________
12) I am what historians call the time from 3100 B.C. to 2186 B.C. _______________
13) I am a god-king who built my capital near Egypt’s present capital._______________
14) When people begin fighting within their own country, I am the result._______________
15) I am the system of making and trading things. _______________
B Directions: Read each sentence. Write T if the statement is true or F if it is false.
______ 1) During the Old Kingdom, Egyptian cities became centers of business.
______ 2) Historians do not know if Menes was a real person.
______ 3) Egyptian pharaohs were kings, but not priests.
______ 4) The ancient Egyptians believed that life after death was very different from life on Earth.
______ 5) Building pyramids did not take very long and was easy work.
______ 6) When the Old Kingdom fell, Egypt’s economy collapsed.
______ 7) Because robbers sometimes broke into tombs and stole the treasure buried there, archaeologists
cannot learn from a pyramid.
______ 8) Around 2100 B.C., government officials had lost power and the pharaohs had become more
powerful.
______ 9) Some historians believe that Egypt’s troubles were caused by natural disasters.
______10) The Egyptians built pyramids for shelter.
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