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Crash Course World History Episode #4
Ancient Egypt
John covers the long, long history of ancient Egypt, including the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms, and
even a couple of intermediate periods. Learn about mummies, pharaohs, pyramids and the Nile with John
Green. To answer the following questions, you may have to rewind and re-watch segments of the video.
Subtitles may also help.
1. Why do archaeologists know so much more about ancient Egypt as opposed to other civilizations?
2. Compare and contrast the Nile River with the other rivers we have learned about thus far.
3. What did it mean to “tame the Nile?”
4. What were the three “kingdoms” that historians have broken Egyptian history into? How long did they last?
5. How did the Egyptian pyramids represent political and social control? Are there contemporary examples of this?
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6. Why were the ancient Egyptians compelled to build the pyramids?
7. Who was King tut and why was he more famous than the other Egyptian kings?