2. Reading Assignment
Pages:
35-43 [Reading Quiz]
89-91

3. Journal #19
Source: History Safari

4. List three practices of Ancient Egypt that seem most unusual to you
List three practices of Ancient Egypt that seem most unusual to you. Explain why you chose these three practices. What are some practices or traditions that we have today that might seem unusual to a person 2,000 years from now? What is the importance of the Rosetta Stone?

5. Introduction: Ancient Egypt
Area now called Egypt was originally known as Kemet or “black-land”
Given the name Egypt by the Greeks
Lotus is the symbol of Upper Egypt
Papyrus is the symbol of Lower Egypt

6. Lotus Flower

7. Papyrus Plant

8. Papyrus Paper

9. Introduction: Ancient Egypt
East bank of Nile River – location of temples.
Why?
 West bank of Nile River – location of tombs.

10. Four themes to be studied:
1. Geography – importance of Nile River; location of settlements;
protection from invasion – Sahara Desert;
cataracts [blocks passage along Nile River; only last 650 miles can be navigated by boat]

11. Four themes to be studied:
2. Religion – greatest influence on daily life of people;
prepare for afterlife;
major gods & goddesses;
mummification rituals

12. Four themes to be studied:
3. Architecture – most recognized part of Ancient Egypt;
“bigger was better”;
most structures reflected importance of religion;
Pyramids; Sphinx; Abu Simbel

13. Four themes to be studied:
4. People – focus of the leaders known as pharaohs –
Hatshepsut;
Akhenaten;
Tutankhamun;
Ramses II;
Cleopatra

14. Physical Political Historical Mediterranean Sea Giza The Pyramids
Cairo *
Physical
Political
Historical
Lower
Egypt
Akhetaton*
Valley of the
Kings
& Queens
Abydos *
holy city
Red Sea
*Thebes
capital
Sahara
Desert
Upper
Egypt
1st Cataract
Abu Simbel
Nile River

15. Time Line for Ancient Egypt
3100 B.C. Egypt was united under Menes (Narmer) who founded the first dynasty.
2700 B.C. Beginning of the Old Kingdom or Age of the Pyramids.
2100 B.C. Beginning of the Middle Kingdom or the Age of the Nobles
1700 B.C. Egypt is conquered by the Hyskos

16. Time Line for Ancient Egypt
1580 B.C. Egyptians drive the Hyskos out.
1570 B.C. Beginning of the New Kingdom.
1500 B.C. Egyptian Empire reaches its height.
1380 B.C. Reign of Akhenaten begins. He tries to change the religion of the land to that of one god, Aten, the sun.

17. Time Line for Ancient Egypt
1361 B.C. The reign of Tutankhamen begins. He restores the old gods.
1352 B.C. Death of Tutankhamen.
1304 B.C. Reign of Ramses II, great warrior against the Hittites.
1085 B.C. The period of decline begins.

18. Time Line for Ancient Egypt
669 B.C. Assyrians invade Egypt.
525 B.C. Persians drive the Assyrians out and take over Egypt.
332 B.C. Alexander the Great invades Egypt.
31 B.C. The army of the last queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, is defeated at Actium. Egypt becomes a province of Rome.