Unit 2: River
Civilizations
Part 2 –
Egypt
Study
Guide
Use this guide with the “Unit 2, Egypt” reading.
In this unit we will do things a bit differently. To demonstrate your understanding of
Egypt you will take a test and write an essay. But, the test will only be on terms and
vocab. And, this time we will practice “Chunking” the terms together to make them
easier to remember.
Your TMD work will help you set up an outline for the essay. So, although it looks
like much more work, you should find that when you set it up write, it works much
more efficiently and makes your life easier.
Egypt Content Test.
At the end of this unit you will have a test on the following terms. To help make them easier to
learn we group them together.
Pharaohs and important People
Menes
Zoser
Cheops/Khufu
Amenemhet I
Hatshepsut
Thutmose III
Amenhotep III/Akhenaton
Tutankhamun
Ramses II
Other Government terms
Vizier
Gods
Horus
Re
Osiris
Isis
Other Religious terms
Mummification
Book of the Dead
Places and Geography
Nile Delta
Upper Egypt
Lower Egypt
The Egyptian Empire
Time Periods
Old Kingdom
Middle Kingdom
Hyksos
New Kingdom
Inventions and Art
Papyrus
Step Pyramid
Great Pyramids of Giza
Hieroglyphics
Obelisks
Sphinx
Staple Crop
Egypt Essay.
By now we have seen how civilizations use their government, religion, technology and art to
help them meet their challenges. But with Egypt, we can now start to see how they changed
those things over time to improve on them. Egypt didn’t do the same thing in the New Kingdom
as they did in the Old Kingdom because their challenges changed. So, your thesis question to
answer in this unit is:
How did Egypt change either their government and religion or their art and technology over the
course of the Old, Middle, and New Kingdom to meet new challenges?
Step One:
The first step to answering this question is to determine if you want to tell the story of
government and religion or art and technology. You do not have to do all of them. Both come
with an advantage and disadvantage. Government and religion will give you a lot of
information. There will be lots of notes to find. But, it will be easy to write and answer to
because you have lots to work with. There is less info on Art and Technology – so you will have
to look harder. Writing notes will be quicker, but writing the essay can be trickier because you
have less to work with.
Step Two:
Now it is time to do your research. For this assignment you do not need to use any resource
other than your Egypt Reading. It will give you as much as I need. Now here is the cool thing.
If you organize your notes well from the beginning you will notice that the hardest part of your
essay is already done.
Instead of doing a TMD that asks you to write the details of every section, you can organize it by
the main ideas of the paragraphs you will want to write in your essay. Use this outline to get the
idea.
Egypt Essay TMD Research Outline:
Topic: Government and Religion
Name
or
Art and Technology
Main Idea: The Old Kingdom developed (topic) to meet the challenge of:
_________________
Details:
Main Idea: The Middle Kingdom developed (topic) to meet the challenge of: ___________
Details:
Main Idea: The New Kingdom developed (topic) to meet the challenge of: _______________
Details: