Ancient History
Ancient Egypt
Presearch One
Hail to thee, O Nile! Who manifests thyself over this land, and comes to give life to Egypt!
Mysterious is thy issuing forth from the darkness, on this day whereon it is celebrated!
Watering the orchards created by Re, to cause all the cattle to live, you give the earth to drink,
inexhaustible one! Path that descends from the sky, loving the bread of Seb and the first-fruits
of Nepera, You cause the workshops of Ptah to prosper!
Lord of the fish, during the inundation, no bird alights on the crops. You create the grain, you
bring forth the barley, assuring perpetuity to the temples. If you cease your toil and your
work, then all that exists is in anguish. If the gods suffer in heaven, then the faces of men waste
away.
Hymn to the Nile
ca. 2100 BCE
Themes: Stability vs. Change, Cause and Effect
Objectives:
 Locate and describe the major river systems and discuss the physical settings that
supported permanent settlement and early civilizations.
 Trace the development of agricultural techniques that permitted the production of
economic surplus and the emergence of cities as centers of culture and power.
 Understand the relationship between religion and the social and political order in
Mesopotamia and Egypt.
 Discuss the main features of Egyptian art and architecture.
 Describe the role of Egyptian trade in the eastern Mediterranean and Nile valley.
 Understand the significance of Queen Hatshepsut and Ramses the Great.
 Trace the evolution of language and its written forms.
Essential Questions:
1) How did the environmental factors of water, topography, and vegetation affect
where people choose to settle in ancient times?
2) How did geography influence the economy in Ancient Egypt?
3) How did rivers shape the religious beliefs of Mesopotamia and Egypt?
The following should be filed in your ISN: Ancient Egypt.
Due
Points
In ISN
12/5
30
12/5
12/10
30
-
12/10
12/11
12/12
60
30
10
1) Ancient Egypt Cover Sheet – including name, date, grade, title, and
color illustration.
2) Color Map of Egypt. Include the
 Africa
following terms:
 Nile Delta
 Asia
 Nile River
 Arabian Peninsula
 Libyan Desert
 Sinai Peninsula
 Nubian Desert
 Cairo
 Negev Desert
 Jerusalem
 Jordan River
 Giza
 Dead Sea
 Karnak
3) Read Chapter Nine on-line and take the Reading Challenge
4) Define the following Academic
Vocabulary:
 delta
 social pyramid
 flood cycle
 status
 topography
 pharaoh
 vegetation
 surplus
 fertilization
 economics
 papyrus
 trade
 afterlife
 crop yield
 hieroglyphics
 Queen Hatshepsut
 noble
 Ramses the Great
 embalm
 social class
5) Essential Questions
6) Quiz on the geography of Egypt and Essential Questions