Chapter 3 Lesson 1 -- Geography of Mesopotamia



Chapter 5 Lesson 3 -- The Pyramid Builders (164-170)

Define the following words using the glossary:

dynasty:

succession:

pharaoh:

pyramid:

step pyramid:

Khufu:

The Old Kingdom

(1). Legend says who united Upper and Lower Egypt? ___________________________

(2). Historians divide ancient Egyptian dynasties into which 3 Kingdoms?

(A)._______________________________

(B)._______________________________

(C)._______________________________

(3). The term pharaoh meant "____________ _______________," and it was originally used to describe the king's _________________.

(4). The ancient Egyptians thought the pharaoh was a ____________ of the gods and a _______ himself. Egyptians believed that if the pharaoh and his subjects ______________ the gods, their lives would be _________________.

(5). Why was religion and government not separate in ancient Egypt?

_____________________________________________________________________________

Khufu's Great Pyramid

(6). What king built the Step Pyramid? ____________________________________

(7). What copper tools did miners use to cut stone for the Great Pyramid? ______and ___________.

(8). What is one main reason the Egyptians stopped building pyramids?

______________________________________________________________________

(9) The Egyptians believed that if a tomb was robbed, the person buried there could not live a _______________ _________________. During the New Kingdom, pharaohs began building more ____________ ____________ in an area called the _______________ of the ________.

Middle Kingdom

(10) By about 2130 B.C., Egyptian kings began to ________ their ____________ to local rulers of the provinces. For about _______ more years, the kings held Egypt together, but with a much ______________ central government. This period of Egyptian history is called the ________________ _____________________.

(11) Rulers during the Middle Kingdom also faced challenges from outside Egypt. A nomadic people called the _____________ invaded Egypt from the ________________. Their army conquered by using better _______________ and horse-drawn _____________, which were new to the Egyptians. After about ________ years, the Egyptians drove out the Hyksos and began the __________ ________________.

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