1. 9/30/08 BR- What is the major river in Egypt?
High School Heroes Training, Wednesday, October 1 and 8. 9th period. Room 335
9/30/08 BR- What is the major river in Egypt?
Today: Textbooks, Vocabulary Journal, Timelines, Important People, and Study Questions

2. Text Agreement
By taking possession of the text “The Ancient Egyptian World” I accept the responsibility of maintaining this text and understand that failure to return the text upon request or that return of the text with damage above normal wear and tear will result in the necessity of my payment in the amount of $35 to replace the text.

3. Vocabulary Journal #3
Chapter 1: wielding, barren, relentless, sacred, highlands, obsessively, nilometer, counterweight, caravan, expedition
Chapter 2: shriveled, palette, gateway, unification, symbolize, harmony
Chapter 3: unwieldy, manageable, dynasty, chaos, divine, parallel, mallet, anvil, papyrus, artisan, magnitude
Chapter 4: scribe, apprentice, privileged, breakthrough, fluent, cartouche

4. Time-Line - (Keep In Your Binder)
3150 BCE - King Scorpion rules; Dynasty 0
3100 BCE - Narmer/Menes unifies Egypt
3050 BCE - Aha rules; first king of Dynasty 1
~3000 BCE - Writing Begins in Egypt
2700 BCE - Old Kingdom Period Begins (dynasties 3-6)
BCE - Rule of Djoser; 1st pyramid built

5. Important People (look up and find, then keep in your notebook
Chapter 1: Harkhuf, Pepi
Chapter 2: Narmer
Chapter 3: Djoser, Imhotep
Chapter 4: Ptolemy

6. Study Questions: Chapters 1-4
How did the Nile help farmers?
What powers did the people think King Pepi had?
Where did Harkhuf and other traders travel? What did they bring back to Egypt?
Explain why farmers in the Nile River Valley worried every year.
Explain 2 tools farmers in the Nile Valley used.
Describe how people thought the Nile River “gave life.”

7. Chapter 2 How did people in Tjeni and Nekhen become wealthy?
What is “topsy-turvy” about the Nile?
How did the artists who carved the Narmer Palette show that the king was more important than the people around him?
What do upper and lower Egypt mean?
Why was the Palette of Narmer created?
On the Palette of Narmer what do the bull’s tail, bull trampling a foe, and staff symbolize?

8. Chapter 3
What do the king’s various names tell about what Egyptians believed about the king’s powers?
Why did Egyptians need to get wood from other lands?
What did Imhotep build into his design for the Step Pyramid to fool tomb robbers?
Who worked on the Step Pyramid during flood season?
5. Describe the difference between kingdoms and intermediate periods?
6. How is the Step Pyramid different from earlier royal tombs?

9. Chapter 4: Why is the Rosetta Stone important?
Why were hieroglyphs so hard to understand?
What percentage of ancient Egyptians could read?
What was written on the Rosetta Stone?
Why was Egyptian writing called “sacred carving?”
What is Papyrus and what is it used for?
What were some of the jobs of ancient Scribes