Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt

Multiple Choice

What CONTINENT is Egypt located?

• Africa

• Asia

• Europe

• Antarctica

Multiple Choice

Where is the majority of Egyptian civilization located?

• Upper Egypt

• Lower Egypt

Multiple Choice

This settlement is due to what type of geographical feature?

• Tigris River

• Delta River

• Nile River

• Euphrates River

Social Structure

• Pyramid

• Priests = powerful

• Scribes = respected (educated)

• Peasants = lowest / largest class

Government

• Highest after Pharaoh

• Family of Pharaoh

• Vizier, Chief Treasurer, General of Army

• Vizier = MOST POWER

• Luxurious lives

Multiple Choice

Which member of government has the most power, just under the pharaoh?

• Treasurer

• General

• Vizier

• Scribes

Priests

• Powerful/Respected

• Held many jobs

• Ran temples (home to 1 or more gods)

• Had to cleanse 3-4 x day

• Shave all hair on body

Poll

Priests had many roles and responsibilities, which do you believe is the craziest?

• Running the temples

• Shaving off all body hair

• Performing healings

• Teaching about the after life

• Cleansing in holy water 3-4 x daily

Scribes

• Official record keepers

• Men only

• Any social class - only if educated

• 12 years - over 700 hieroglyphs

• Clay or Papyrus

Multiple Choice

Could the absolute lowest people on the social class pyramid, the peasants, move up the pyramid by becoming a scribe?

• Yes

• No

Artisans

• Created beautiful art

• Common labor for upper class

• Sometimes celebrated / mainly just "Help"

Peasants

• lowest/largest group

• grew/provided food for all

• helped build monuments

• only allowed to keep left overs from crop

Multiple Choice

Were the artisans located below, above, or the same level as the peasants on the social class pyramid?

• Above

• Below

• Same level

Religion

• Polytheistic

• Believed gods controlled everything

• Built temples, offered, prayers and gifts

• Pharaoh = god on Earth

The Afterlife

• Could "overcome death"

• Good life = live forever

• Sinful = destroyed

• Practiced embalming and mummification

• Wealthy only

Multiple Select

Only the _______ and ________ were mummified. Everyone else was buried in a shallow grave at the edge of the desert.

• Pharaohs

• Slaves

• Farmers

• Nobles

Economy

• Buying/selling of goods/services

• Agriculture + trade

• BARTER SYSTEM

• No set currency

• Collected taxes (surplus crops)

• Export: papyrus, pottery, veggies, fish

• Import: timber, gold, copper, livestock

Achievements

• Organized bureaucracy + tax system

• Strong pharaohs

• Papyrus, ink, hieroglyphics

• Architecture: pyramids, temples, sphinx

• 365 day calendar

• Scientific/Medical advancements

Multiple Select

To help control and plan the flooding of the Nile, Egyptians developed _______ and _______

• The plow

• 365 day calendar

• Hieroglyphics

• Irrigation canals