Ancient Egypt Travel Agent Brochure
Welcome to the world of the Ancient Egypt travel agent. In
a few days you are off to a convention of Ancient world
travel agents. You will have to show off your talents as a
travel agent. How will you sell your best product - your
very own civilization – Ancient Egypt?
The Task
To create a brochure that you can hand out at the conference
telling of all the wonderful sites and activities a tourist to
Ancient Egypt can participate in. (Your tourist is a person
from the ancient world not a modern person travelling back
in time)
You will have to create this brochure in Publisher or Word and make it as
colourful as possible. Your brochure should only be one or two pages.
You must also include details of all the activities your tourists can be part of.
Make sure you suggest options for their time in Ancient Egypt. This can also
include details of accommodation.
Assessment
You will be graded on the following areas.
1. Presentation - Is your brochure colourful and inviting? Does it contain
images relevant to your destination?
2. Language - Have you written your information in language free of
mistakes and made it easy to understand.
3. Content - Have you included historically appropriate
information in your brochure that correctly reflects
place and the lifestyle of this destination? For example,
a tourist of the ancient world cannot fly to Egypt.
4. Is your brochure completed on time
Assignment due:
ANCIENT EGYPT – MULTIPLE CHOICE & SHORT ANSWER TEST
1. What is the name of the famous pharaoh whose tomb was discovered in 1922?
A – Ramses
B – Tutankhamen
C – Howard Carter
D – Khufu
2. What is the name of the river running through Egypt?
A – Thames
B – Euphrates
C – Nile
D – Danube
3. The ancient Egyptians divided the year into how many seasons?
A – One
B – Two
C – Three
D – Four
4. What are hieroglyphs?
A – Vases that were buried with the dead
B – Picture symbols of the Ancient Egyptian alphabet
C – Wooden toys
D – None of the above
5. Who of the following was a famous Ancient Egyptian woman?
A – Nefertiti
B – Khufu
C – Tutankhuman
D – Giovanni Belzoni
6. Where are the famous pyramids and the Sphinx located?
A – Alexandria
B – Thebes
C – Giza
D – Cairo
7. The yearly flood season – a time when fertile new soil was dumped on farmland surrounding
the river was known as the:
A – Delta
B – Inundation
C – Black lands
D – Flood season
8. The Rosetta Stone helped people to do what?
A – Understand the hieroglyphs
B – Find tombs that hadn’t been opened
C – Make bread
D – All of the above
9. What was the name of the pump the ancient Egyptians used to move water?
A – Dynasty
B – Shomu
C – Papyrus
D – Shaduf
10. What did the ancient Egyptians write on?
A – Stone
B – Papyrus
C – Sand
D – Stone and papyrus
11. The internal organs of mummies were removed and stored in:
A – Canopic jars
B – Amulets
C – Burial chambers
D – A sarcophagus
12. A group of pharaohs that came from the same family are known as a:
A – Tradition
B – Dynasty
C – Deity
D – Royal succession
13. What word means to preserve the tissue of a living body after death by drying it out?
A – Natron
B – Embalming
C – Preserving
D – Canopic
14. What was the dark paste made by mixing oil with soot or powdered lead and used by ancient
Egyptians to outline their eyes?
A – Eyeliner
B – Papyrus
B – Kohl
C – Black lands
15. What was the area around 1000km south of the Nile Delta, which became part of Ancient
Egypt by the time of the New Kingdom:
A – Nubia
B – Kadesh
C – Mesopotamia
D – Rosetta
16. A stone or wooden box in which the coffins of a dead Egyptian was placed was a:
A – Death mask
B – Canopic jar
C – Loincloth
D – Sarcophagus
17. Who discovered how to read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs?
A – Howard Carter
B – Jean Francois Champollion
C – Giovanni Belzoni
D – Thomas Moore
18. Which ancient Egyptian pharaoh is famous for his grand building projects?
A – Tutankhamen
B – Ramses the Great
C – Thutmosis
D – Cleopatra
19. Why did the ancient Egyptians stop building pyramids?
A – They were too expensive
B – They ran out of suitable sites on which to build them
C – They attracted tomb-robbers
D – They stopped believing in the afterlife
20. Pharaohs were mummified in order to:
A – Prepare them for the afterlife
B – Make them look better after they died
C – Make the dead pharaohs look more attractive
D – None of the above
21. Who was second in command to the pharaoh?
A – Chief priest
B – Vizier
C – Scribe
D – Merchant
22. The ancient Egyptians saw their pharaoh as a semi-divine being. They believed that he was
descended from:
A – The sun god Ra
B – The sun god Seth
C – The sun god Hathor
D – The sun god Isis
23. The famous explorer Giovanni Belzoni recovered many Ancient Egyptian artefacts for the:
A – Berlin Museum
B – Paris Museum
C – British Museum
D – None of the above
24. Which person, who helped to discover Tutankhamen’s tomb, died as a result of an infected
mosquito bite?
A – Lady Carnavon
B – Lord Carnavon
C – Howard Carter
D – Lady Evelyn Herbert
25. Which of the following statements is true?
A – The king of Lower Egypt wore a white crown
B – The king of Upper Egypt wore a red crown
C – The king of Upper Egypt wore a red and white crown
D – The king of Upper and Lower Egypt wore a red and white crown
26. Ramses II was involved in which famous ancient battle?
A – The Battle of Nubia
B – The Battle of the Hittites
C – The Battle of Kadesh
D – The Battle of Egypt
27. The most important ancient Egyptian god was:
A – Horus
B – Anubis
C – Geb
D – Ra
28. What was NOT a health problem that afflicted the ancient Egyptians?
A – Malaria
B – Dysentery
C – HIV-AIDS
D – Tooth damage and decay
29. Most Egyptian pharaohs were buried in:
A – The Valley of the Kings
B – Pyramids
C – Nubia
D – Cairo
30. Who was the last pharaoh of Egypt?
A – Tutankhamen
B – Cleopatra
C – Ramses II
D – Khufu
31. Why did the Egyptians put so much effort into preserving a person’s body after they had died?
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32. Identify and explain the role of one key group in ancient Egypt (not including the Pharaoh). (3
marks)
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33. Explain why the annual flooding of the Nile was so important for the Ancient Egyptians? (3
marks)
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34. Why is Tutankhamen the most famous ancient Egyptian pharaoh? (3 marks)
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35. Of the famous Egyptologists we have studied (Howard Carter, Giovanni Belzoni and JeanFrancois Champollion) who do you think made the greatest contribution to our understanding of
Ancient Egypt and why? (3 marks)
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36. What are the key differences and similarities between Ancient Egyptian women and women of
the 21st Century? To show your understanding fill in the Venn Diagram below:
(4 marks)
37. Extended Response: Given what you know about the Battle of Kadesh, analyse the
painting above and consider whether it is a fair and accurate depiction of the battle
and its outcome. (6 marks)
The tomb painting shows Rameses II at the battle of Kadesh. It is only one of a great many monuments and paintings
he had made as propaganda for his achievements.
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Egyptian Museum, Cairo; photograph, O. Louis Mazzatenta/National Geographic Image Collection
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