6th grade World History I, chapter 4 notes
History Chp. 4 Notes
What is Egypt?
What is the Nile River?
What was the Kingdom of Kush?
What was Canaan?
What was Jericho?
What is Tigris?
What is Euphrates?
What was Mesopotamia?
What were the Flood Plains?
What were Nilometers?
What is Papyrus?
What was Syncretism?
Who were the Sea Peoples?
Who was King Menes?
What is a Pharaoh
What is The Great Pyramid of Giza?
What is an Obelisk?
What are Hieroglyphics?
What are Glyphs?
What is Abstract Art?
What was a Relief?
What are Registers?
What does Anonymous mean?
What is the Ankh?
What is a Scarab?
What was a Mastaba?
What was the Old Kingdom of Egypt?
What was the Middle Kingdom of Egypt?
What was the New Kingdom of Egypt?
What is Lebanon?
What is Nubia?
What was the Vizier?
What was the Egyptian Hierarchy?
What is a Priest?
What is a Peasant?
Who was Amenhotep IV?
Who was Amenhotep III?
What was Amarna?
Who was Queen Hatshepsut?
Who was Ramses the Great?
What was the Golden Age of Egypt?
What was the Valley of the Kings?
Which of the following Ancient Egyptian art forms became popular during the Middle Kingdom?
What type of temple was built to honor Egyptian gods?
What did the Egyptians buy from Lebanon?
What was the name of the kingdom that connected Egypt to much of Africa?
When compared to a modern treasurer, what is unusual about the position of chief treasurer in ancient Egypt?
During what time period in ancient Egypt was the construction of mastabas most prominent?
Besides their shape, how did obelisks differ from pyramids?
Lesson 1
Egypt: A powerful civilization.
The Nile River: The longest river in the world.
The Nile flooded annually, so the Egyptians predicted when the Nile would flood, which helped their crops.
The Kingdom of Kush: The Kingdom of Kush was a civilization that started to grow to the south of Egypt.
Canaan: A civilization along the Mediterranean Sea.
Jericho: A city that was along the Jordan River.
Lesson 2
Tigris: One of the two rivers that are around Mesopotamia.
Euphrates: The second river around Mesopotamia.
Mesopotamia: A civilization that’s name meant “Land between the rivers,” that is in the present-day Middle East.
Lesson 3
Flood Plains: An area in Egypt where it would flood a lot.
Nilometer: A tool made by the Egyptians to predict when the Nile will flood.
The Nile River is so important to the Egyptians that a Greek historian, Herodotus said, “All of Egypt is a gift to the Nile.”
Lesson 4
Papyrus: A plant that only grows along the Nile river, it grows nowhere else in the world!
The Egyptians used papyrus to make scrolls to write on.
Syncretism: To combine opposing gods into a single deity.
The Sea Peoples: A mysterious civilization that conquered many different civilizations, including Egypt.
Lesson 5
King Menes: A king of Egypt that made Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt into one country, making the first Egyptian Dynasty.
Pharaoh: A supreme ruler, King Menes was the first pharaoh of Egypt.
The Great Pyramid of Giza: The Pharaoh Khufu’s pyramid.
Obelisk: A pointed stone pillar built to honor the deeds of pharaohs, Worship their gods, and more!
Hieroglyphics: Picture symbols for writing.
Glyphs: Picture symbols that represent words, objects, ideas, and sounds.
Lesson 6
Abstract Art: An art style of geometric shapes.
Reliefs: Egyptian wall art paintings.
Registers: Parallel lines denoting different scenes.
Anonymous: The person who did something is unknown.
Ankh: The oldest symbol in Egyptian art.
Scarab: Species of dung beetle found throughout Egyptian art, it lays its eggs in a ball of dung.
Lesson 7
Mastabas: The earliest form of structures in honor of the dead, originally for elite people in society.
The Old Kingdom of Egypt: A period of Egypt that was around 2686-2181 BCE, it is also called the age of the Pyramids.
Middle Kingdom of Egypt: The time period around 2030-1650 BCE, there were many giant funerary complexes (houses of the dead) built around that time, they were so big they could hold multiple bodies.
New Kingdom of Egypt: The time period around 1550-1070 BCE, complex building design became more popular in the time period.
Lesson 8
Lebanon: A country Egypt had traded with.
Nubia: Another country that Egypt traded with.
The Nile River was the main trading route of Egypt.
Lesson 9
Vizier: Top government advisor in Egypt.
Egyptian Hierarchy: The social structure of Egypt.
Priest: Heads of religious ceremonies.
Peasant: The laborers of a place.
Lesson 10
Amenhotep IV: The pharaoh Akhenaten’s original name before he changed it.
Amenhotep III: Akhenaten’s father.
Akhenaten had changed his name because of the Egyptian sun god, Aten.
Amarna: The capital of Egypt Akenhaten made, and replaced the old capital.
Lesson 11
Queen Hatshepsut: The first queen of Egypt, while most of the pharaohs of Egypt were male.
Ramses the Great: A pharaoh that showed everyone what a pharaoh should be like.
The Golden Age of Egypt: One of the longest reigns of a pharaoh in Egyptian history.
Lesson 12
Valley of The Kings: Where the Egyptians started putting the pharaohs’ dead bodies to be kept from tomb robbers.
The Valley of the Kings preserved pharaohs’ bodies from the 16-11th century BCE
Answer: Block Statues
Answer: Cult Temples
Answer: Wood
Answer: Kush
Answer: The taxes they collected were nearly always paid in grain, animals, or cloth rather than money.
Answer: Old Kingdom
Answer: While pyramids served as a final resting place for Pharaohs, obelisks were built for the protection of the Egyptian kingdom.