Activities related to Ancient

Egyptians
Enzo Cano Gafarot, keqiang Mao and Marc Plaza
Lesson 2 Activities
 Question 1: Which of the Egyptian
achievements do you consider the most
important? Explain.
I think that the most important
achievements of ancient Egypt are the
pyramids because they represented
Egypt and they became its symbol. The
pyramids were used as tombs for the
dead Pharaohs. The pharaohs that
passed away were put into the
pyramids and were preserved to guide
people.
 Main Ideas
How did being surrounded by deserts
benefit Egypt?
In ancient times, the Egyptians called the
desert the "red land", distinguishing it from
the flood plain around the Nile River,
called the "black land". Mainly the desert
protected them from invasions.
How did the Egyptians view the
pharaoh?
Egyptian people view the pharaoh as a god
and they thought that if the pharaoh Was
angry they will be more floodplains and
disasters but if the Farrow was happy the Nile
will give them presents to make agriculture...

Why did Egyptians mummify bodies?

The ancient Egyptians mummified their dead people because they believed
that the physical body would be important in the next life.
 CRITICAL THINKING AND
WRITING
Which of the three natural features that served as boundaries in ancient Egypt
was most important to Egypt’s history?
- Ancient Egypt had three natural important theatres that served as boundaries:

River-Fertile soil, transportation

Cataract-Limited outside contract, invaders.

Desert-Obstacle to outside contract, to invasion.

What impact did Egyptian religious beliefs have on the lives of

Egyptians?

Religion was a way for Egyptians to explain their surroundings, such

as the annual Nile flooding. Daily happenings such as the sun setting
and rising, were also explained through religion. Deities were
modeled after humans, as if they lived and died, and needed
sustenance to survive.
 CRITICAL THINKING AND WRITING
How were cuneiform and hieroglyphic writing similar? different?
Comparing Cuneiform and Hieroglyphs Similar Different
They wrote it from up to down X
They had the same number of symbols X
They were written in clay tablets X
They were involved a long time ago X
Their general structure. X
They had spaces and punctuation X
Not a lot of people were able to write and read this language. X
Select an Egyptian invention or achievement. Write a paragraph about how your
selected achievement changed the Egyptians’ life.

Mummification is the process of preserving the body after death by

deliberately drying or embalming flesh. The ancient Egyptians mummified
their dead because they believed that the physical body would be important in
the next life. Thus, preserving the body in as lifelike a way as possible was the
goal of mummification. The early burials in ancient Egypt consist of holes
dug in the sand.
Lesson 3 Activities
 Explain the importance of:
Cataract: fore have fertile land and cultivated beeeter

Silt:the silt is to improve the walls of the houses and make them stronger

Linen:With linen they could make clothes and not always be hunting for make
clothes.

Delta:The Delta is very important because this is where the river leaves the
black mud, the silt that is good for making agriculture.

Fertile: It is to have fertile land and grow fast and well

How did new agricultural techniques
make the Egyptians more prosperous?
Cause Effect

Floods left a good layer of silt to cultivate in but if there whas a big flood
Floods
it made a lot of destruction.

Thanks to the new inventions that Egyptians made like per example the
New agriculture technologies
shaduf agriculture was easier and better.

Thanks to the Nile they had a lot of land resources and next to them there
Many land resources
was a desert and they could get things like per example metals
 Answer to the questions
3. Why did Egypt develop along the Nile?

Egypcians devoloped along the Nile because of:

They have enought water to drink.

They extracted the mud for constructions.

The made boats for fishing, because the fish is a good food.

The Nile’s water helped the people to make agriculture.

The river was useful to transport object with boats.

4. How did irrigation canals expand farmland in Egypt?
Thanks to the canals of irrigation system they where able to make
agriculture a easier and better. Thanks to this canals of water they
where able to expand a little bit there civilisation.
5. How did trade along the Nile come about?
They made trade by boat on the Nile because it was very difficult to
move through the desert.
 Critical Thinking

6. How did climate affect the daily lives of Egyptians?

The climate in Egypt was very hot because they were next to desert and the
Sun was very strong. Because of that climber they painted the houses in black
to keep out hot and they just lived around the Nile because they were
surrounded of desert.
 Critical Thinking:
7. Analyze the gifts of the Nile in terms of innovation and cultural endurance:
-They used the water of the river to drink and survive.
We then and they can go to hell and fishes and if yo
The people you said the one out of the river to transport people and animals with
the boat
.
Do you should get it out of the river to make agricultural on
Lesson 4 Activities
 Explain the importance of...
Scribe: They where important because they where people encharge of writing hieroglyphs and
thanks to that they where able to make record keeping and they taught people.

Papyrus: It was important because they used it for writing and that was important because
without it they couldn’t write and they were not able to make record keeping.

Hieroglyph: It was important because it was their way of writing and without it they were not
able to make record keeping.

Afterlife: It was important for Egyptians people because it was the life after death and they
wanted to have a good afterlife.

Embalm: It was important because it reduced the presence and growth of microorganisms,
retards the decomposition of the body and restore an acceptance physical aperients.

Mummy: The mummy was important because it represented life after death.
Categorizing Use your completed web diagram to answer the following
question:
2. What jobs did Egyptians hold?
 Answer the questions:
3) Why were some Egyptians able to become artisans ?

Some Egyptians were able to be artisans because they knew how to do a especial jobs or things like
working with pottery.

4) How were hieroglyphs used?

Hieroglyphs were used to write and make record keeping. They were also use to write about so many
things like wars, history... They had up to 6000 hieroglyphs and some of them were very simple.

5) What duties did priests have?

The priests had the dutie of studying things related to astronomy. Based on that, the priests studied things
about the Sun and the Moon, and they created the calendar that we use now with 365 days.

They took care of the temples

They take of children...