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Ancient Egypt Webquest

Click on the link(s) for each question and then answer the question.
1. http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/ancient-egypt 4th paragraph from the top.
Who was the first king of the first dynasty?
2. Watch the video on this website and answer the following questions.
http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/how-old-is-the-great-sphinx
How old is the Great Sphinx?
How long is the Sphinx?
What is the Sphinx made from?
3. The Great Pyramids of Giza. Use the following link to answer the questions below.
http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/the-egyptian-pyramids
What is the area and perimeter of the Great Pyramid?
Hint: area = length X width. Perimeter = total length of all four sides
Area:
Perimeter:
How many stone blocks were needed to build the Great Pyramid?
According to Herodotus, how long did it take to build the Great Pyramid and how many men
were needed to build it?

4. http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/worldhistory/introancientegypt4.htm
What items were usually buried with pharaohs in their tombs? Why were these things placed in
the tomb?

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5. http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/gods/explore/main.html
Ancient Egyptians worshipped many gods. What was the name of the Egyptian sun god?

6. What was the name of the Egyptian god of chaos? Use the link from the previous question.

7. http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/geography/home.html
Compare and contrast the two types of land found in Ancient Egypt.

8. http://www.egyptiandiamond.com/ancient-egyptian-nile-river.php
How long is the Nile River and which countries does it flow through?

9. http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/worldhistory/introancientegypt1.htm
List four reasons the Nile River was so important to the creation of the Ancient Egyptian
civilization?

10. Use the link in #9 to answer the following question. What did Ancient Egyptians build their
boats out of?

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11. http://egypt.mrdonn.org/farming.html
What types of crops did the Ancient Egyptians grow?

12. http://egypt.mrdonn.org/irrigation.html
What is a shadoof and what was it used for?

13. Use the link from #12 to answer the next question.
Explain what a Nilometer was and why they were important.

14. http://www.crystalinks.com/egyptagriculture.html
Read the section Diet to answer the question below.
What types of food did the Ancient Egyptians eat?

15. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/egypt_importance_01.shtml
What event brought an end of the Egyptian way of life?

16. http://www.britannica.com/topic/Pharos-of-Alexandria
Use this site to answer the following questions.
How tall was the lighthouse of Alexandria?

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According to archaeologist Jean-Yves Empereur, what destroyed the light house? When did this
event occur?

17. http://www.ancient.eu/The_Seven_Wonders/
List the seven wonders of the ancient world. How many were created in Egypt?

18. http://discoveringegypt.com/egyptian-hieroglyphic-writing/
What is the Rosetta Stone and why was finding it so important?

19. http://www.ancient.eu/Rosetta_Stone/
Who decoded the Rosetta Stone in the 1820s?

20. http://discoveringegypt.com/egyptian-hieroglyphic-writing/hieroglyphic-typewriter/
Click on the letters of your name to reveal how to spell your first name in hieroglyphics. Draw
the symbols that make up your name in the space below.

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Standards:
SS.7.H.CL1.2: Identify the contributions and influences of ancient civilizations and categorize
the factors that led to their fall (e.g., philosophy, architecture, civics, literature, the arts, science
and mathematics).
M.7.G.6: Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, volume and surface area
of two- and three-dimensional objects composed of triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, cubes,
and right prisms.