Africa

==What do you think of when you hear the name Africa? Do you think of the animals that call this continent home? What about the people? Do you think of the 54 countries that are on the second largest continent of the world?Africa is an interesting land. Lets go on a virtual safari of this great continent.==

Looking Down
For this activity we will be using Google Earth. Even though it is not completely about Africa, I think we will learn a lot about the continent.

Egypt: The Gift of the Nile


//Copy and paste the questions below on a page in your OneNote in the section called Africa. The page in the section should be called Egypt. // //Answer the following questions while reading the Overview of Egypt pages 40 to 44 which is posted above. //
 * Egypt Part 1**

1. What did archaeologists see when they lowered a camera into a deep underground chamber of The Great Pyramid of Giza?

2. Who figured out the meaning of hieroglyphics?

3. What is the Rosetta Stone?

4. What Greek historian called Egypt “the gift of the Nile?”

5. How long is the Nile?

6. What are cataracts?

7. What is a delta?

8. What was the fertile land south of the delta region of Egypt called?

9. What was the delta region of Egypt called?

10. Because of irrigation, how many square miles of good farming land was in Egypt?

11. What crops were grown in ancient Egypt?

12. What caused famines, mass deaths, and wide-spread confusion between 2250 B.C and 1959 B.C.?

13. What geographic features helped protect Egypt from invasion?

14. What are some of the natural resources of ancient Egypt?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">15. What things were made from papyrus?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">16. What are nomes?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">17. How many nomes were in Lower Egypt?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">18. How many nomes were in Upper Egypt?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">19. According to legend, what king united Lower and Upper Egypt sometime between 3200 B.C.and 2780 B.C.?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">20. What became the capital of the newly united Egypt?

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Egypt Part 2 **

//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Copy and paste the following questions in your OneNote below Egypt Part 1. // //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer the following questions while Reading the Egyptian Overview, pages 44 to 48. //

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1. What are the three time periods historians have divided Egyptian history into?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2. What Age name goes with each division of Egyptian history?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3. What are the time periods of the three divisions of Egyptian history?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">4. What is a dynasty?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **The Old Kingdom**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">5. What authority did the pharaoh hold?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">6. What was buried in the pyramids along with the pharaoh?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">7. What did the pictures and hieroglyphics inside the pyramid tell?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">8. What is the Sphinx?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">9. What helped to bring an end to the Old Kingdom?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Middle Kingdom **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">10. To where did Amenemhet I move the Egyptian capital?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">11.What activities helped the Middle Kingdom stay rich and powerful?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">12. What was the most powerful invader to come into Egypt during the Middle Kingdom?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">13. What things did the invaders destroy?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The New Kingdom **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">14. How was Hatshepsut different from all of the other Egyptian pharaohs?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">15. Describe Hatshepsut’s rule.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">16. How did Thutmose III become pharaoh?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Decline of Egypt **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">17. What powerful group of people fought Egyptian armies to a standstill?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">18. In what year did Ramses II make a peace treaty with this group?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">19. Who became the last pharaoh of Egypt?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">20. Egypt was not a free nation until what year?

//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Copy and past the following questions into your OneNote under Part 2 questions. // //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer the following questions while reading the Egypt Overview pages 49 – 52. //
 * Egypt Part 3**


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Religion **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1. What did Egyptians believe about their pharaohs?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2. What animals did Egyptians consider holy?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3. Who were the two chief gods of the Egyptians?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">4. Who did Egyptians believe the two chief gods were?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">5. What book contained the major beliefs and ideas of ancient Egyptian religion?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">6. To what did Amenhotep IV change the name of Amon-Ra?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">7. What did Amenhotep IV’s ideas do to Egyptian religion?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">8. Who returned Egyptians to the worship of Amon-Ra?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Egyptian Society **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">9. Who belonged to the upper class of Egyptian society?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">10. What groups made up the Egyptian middle class?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">11. The Egyptian lower class consisted of what two groups?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Egypt’s Contribution to Society **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Describe the contributions the Egyptians made to civilization in the following areas:

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">12. Writing

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">13. Mathematics

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">14. Engineering

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">15. Astronomy

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">16. Medicine


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Egypt’s Decline **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">17. What did the pharaohs do, or not do, that contributed to the decline of Egypt?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">18. What do some historians point to as a major reason for Egypt’s decline?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">19. How did Egypt’s class structure contribute to its decline?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">20. What three other civilizations dominated Egypt?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Introducing an Ancient Egyptian God
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">We are going to host a classroom gathering of the gods and goddesses. It is your job to introduce one of the gods or goddesses to our class. You will need to tell us who they are and what they do.

@http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/gods/explore/main.html

@http://discoveringegypt.com/ancient-egyptian-gods-and-goddesses/

@http://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/thegods.html

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