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EGYPT
Chapter 4 Study Guide
Chapter 4, Section 1
1. The Nile is the longest river in the world.
2. Rapids called cataracts made travel hard in Upper Egypt.
3. Egypt is called the gift of the Nile. The name came from the Greek historian called Herodotus.
4. Egypt was made up of two parts called lower and upper Egypt.
5. Who united Egypt and became the first pharaoh? Menes
6. A family of rulers is called a dynasty
7. Another name for king; means “great house.” pharaoh
8. The desert was called the red land. The farmlands along the Nile were called the black land.
Chapter 4, Section 2
1. Egyptians thought their rulers were gods on Earth.
2. The Great Pyramid was made for the pharaoh named Khufu
3. People believed in an afterlife (life after death) and preserved (mummified, embalmed) the bodies of
the dead.
4. Using scientific knowledge to make things is called engineering. Egyptians used this to make huge
temples and pyramids.
5. Who was just below the king on the social hierarchy? nobles
Chapter 4, Section 3
1. Egypt’s history is divided into three parts called the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms.
2. Egypt traded with other nations along trade routes
3. New Kingdom ruler: woman pharaoh; expanded trade. Queen Hatshepsut
4. New Kingdom ruler: expanded Egypt through conquest. Ramses the Great
5. Egyptian women had (more, less) rights than Sumerian women.
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Chapter 4, Section 4
1. Egyptian writing, called hieroglyphics was written on the walls of temples and tombs as well as on a
kind of paper made from reeds.
2. We learned how to read hieroglyphics when a French soldier found a piece of rock called the Rosetta
Stone.
3. Tall pillar of stone like the Washington Monument: obelisk
4. A lion’s body and human head; statue. sphinx
5. Howard Carter found King Tut’s tomb in 1922. The tomb was in the valley of the kings.
6. Egyptians spent a great deal of time decorating the temples because they thought that the gods lived
there. Only the priest and pharaohs could enter.
Chapter 4, Section 5
1. Tell the difference between and import and an export. Import: goods brought in from other regions.
Export: goods sent out to other regions.
2. Kush, in the area called Nubia, sometimes fought with Egypt and even conquered it at one time. They
did depend on each other to trade for goods they needed or wanted. Today this area is modern day
Sudan.
Timeline questions
c. 2700-2200 BC
Old Kingdom; Khufu
rules c. 2500 BC;
builds Great
Pyramid.
3000 BC
2500 BC
c. 3200 BC
Upper and Lower
Egypt develop
into kingdoms.
c. 2050-1750 BC
Middle Kingdom;
ends with invasions
by Hyksos.
2000 BC
c. 1500 BC
Egypt
conquers
Kush.
c. 1050 BC
Kush regains
independence.
1500 BC
c. 670 BC
Assyrians
conquer Egypt.
1000 BC
c. 1500-1050 BC
New Kingdom; Egypt
becomes an empire;
Ramses rules c. 1200 BC.
500 BC
c. 716 BC
Kush
conquers
Egypt.
1. According to the timeline, about how many years passed from the beginning of the Old Kingdom to the
end of the New Kingdom? About 1,650 years
2. For how many years did Kush rule Egypt? About 46 years
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Complete the concept map by using the words from the choice box.
Magic
longest
Pyramids
World’s longest
river
Nile River
Fertile soil
wheat
afterlife
wheat
dead
geometry
Nile River
soil
pharaohs
provisions
Egypt
Rules about
moral behavior
and magic
system
geometry
mathematics
religion
Book of the Dead
moral
Pharaohs were
gods
pyramids
contained bodies
and provisions for
afterlife
Number 10 based
system
Name: ____________________________ Period: ________ Date: ___________________________
From these Egyptian events, put them in chronological order. Put the number it occurred on the line
in front of the event.
__6__ Ramses fought the Hittites.
__8__ The mysterious sea people invaded Egypt.
__2__ Khufu’s great pyramid was built at Giza.
__5__ Queen Hatshepsut increased trade through the Egyptian empire.
__4__ Ahmose drove the Hyksos out of Egypt.
__7__ Kushite king, Kashta, attacked Egypt.
__1__ Menes united all of Egypt.
__3__ Nobles overturned Egypt and ruled for 200 years.
__9__ The Rosetta Stone is discovered.
__10_ A child saw a mummy in a museum in the 21st century.