1. Focus Questions
Ancient Egypt

2. Question #1 Black, stone tablet
Three languages: Hieroglyphics, Demotic, and Greek
Greek allowed Hieroglyphics to be translated

3. Question #2 Old Kingdom: Pyramids at Giza.
Middle Kingdom: Expanded empire, great literature, advanced art.
New Kingdom: Ramses II built temples and monuments.

4. Question #3 Nile flows South to North.
Empties into the Mediterranean Sea
Egyptians viewed world differently.

5. Question #4
Nile gave many gifts: water, fertile soil, transportation, stable food supply.
No Nile means there would be no Egypt

6. Question #5 Nile waters flooded crop fields
Nile deposited silt (fertile soil)
Good soil means large food surplus
Egyptians welcomed floods

7. Question #6 Still rely on the Nile River Still eat same kinds of food
Still live in the same kind of mud-brick housing