Pre-Viewing: We will analyze a film that describes the major engineering achievements of Egyptian civilization. The film will use many new vocabulary words below are a few that you will need to know before we view the documentary. Please write the definitions to the words below. Dam: Impenetrable: Fortress: Engineer: Engineering: Architecture: Famine: Capital: Unite:
Menes: Labor: Sarcophagus: Saqqara: Djoser: Barge: Mastaba: During-Viewing: Answer the questions below while viewing the documentary. 1. Where does the Nile River start? 2. Which way does the Nile flow? 3. What are the two parts of the Nile? 4. What would happen if the flood did not come? 5. What would happen if the flood was too strong?
6. Where was Egypt s new capital city? 7. Who is Menes? 8. What did Menes unite? 9. What did Menes try to do at Memphis? 10. What did Menes engineers try to do? 11. Why would this have been astonishing? 12. Does the dam still exist? 13. Draw a dam below! 14. What were the dams built out of?
15. What is the difference between buildings today and building in? 16. Do the great dams of still stand? What happened to them? 17. How did the dams show the power of the pharaohs? 18. How long did Menes rule for? 19. How did Menes die? 20. Which groups first moved to the Nile (hint: you learned about them in Unit 1)? 21. Who did Menes unite around 3000 BCE? 22. Why did the Egyptian Empire start around the Nile? 23. How did the Nile allow Egyptian civilization to grow? 24. How were the canals like a highway?
25. How did the pharaohs harness the power of engineering? 26. How are tombs like houses? 27. What are mastabas? 28. Draw a mastaba. 29. How many pyramids did the Egyptians build? 30. How many pyramids still stand today? 31. How are the pyramids mind-boggling? 32. Who built the world s first stone superstructure? 33. Why would it be difficult to build out of stone?
34. What is one adjective that describes Djoser? 35. Why was Djoser deified? 36. Who was the first pharaoh to be deified? 37. What was one of the first things that Djoser did? 38. How was Djoser s tomb different from his predecessors? 39. What is the difference between building with mud brick and building and stone? 40. Who did Djoser turn to to help him? 41. Who was Imhotep? 42. What were Imhotep s roles? 43. Was Imhotep a pharaoh?
44. Why did tombs face the east? 45. How many men were recruited to work on Djoser s tombs? 46. Why do they say before Imhotep could build up, he had to build down? 47. Why did the pharaoh need an afterlife palace? 48. Why did Djoser have two tombs? 49. What were canopic jars? 50. What went in the canopic jars? 51. What lies underneath the tomb? 52. How many miles of tunnels are underneath? 53. How many rooms were in Djoser s afterlife palace?
54. What is one difficulty archaeologists would face in learning about Djoser? 55. What kind of stone was used on Djoser s tomb? 56. Why was getting the stones from the quarry to the construction site difficult? 57. Who carried the stone? 58. How did Djoser strengthen Egypt s empire? 59. Draw the stacked mastabas. 60. How did the stacking of the mastabas lead to the idea of a pyramid? 61. Why was Djoser s pyramid called a step pyramid?
62. How long did it take to build Djoser s step pyramid? 63. Compare the size of Djoser s step pyramid to a modern structure. 64. How did the Egyptians learn about architecture? 65. What is trial and error? 66. Using as many details as possible how the Egyptians built the pyramids! Write at least 10 sentences and use at least six new vocabulary words from this packet!