HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ALREADY?
PREDICT (Before you read)
Circle the letter of your best guess.

1. What were the earliest domesticated animals in the North African Egyptian region?

a. cat and dog
b. bird and beetle
c. snake and lizard

2. How did the first civilized people take care of their dead?

a. sailed them down the Nile
b. cremation
c. shallow grave with supplies for travel

3. What did they think came after death?

a. life
b. nothing
c. return to the Mother Creator

4. Their first kings were worshipped as gods. How did they celebrate a king on his 30th year of reigning?

a. Sacrificed 30 children for him
b. Ate him
c. Great feast and gifts

5. Much trade ensued over the years and the Egyptian area was influenced by Babylonian (Iraqi area) beliefs. What did they worship?

a. Death
b. Sun
c. Water

6. What did the first great Egyptian region monarch focus on?

a. war and gaining more land
b. agricultural growth and irrigation
c. developing a religion that included tremendous sacrifice

7. What did the second great king, Mena, focus the most on?

a. uniting his kingdom
b. agriculture - guarding against famine
c. religion - making people subservient to him as god-king

8. What was invented by Egyptian regional people in the Late Stone Age?

a. Calendar
b. Pythagorean Theorem
c. Pyramids

9. What is the true wealth of Egypt drawn from?

a. its people
b. its kings
c. its soil

DID YOU LEARN ANYTHING?
ANSWER (After you read)

1. What were the earliest domesticated animals in the North African Egyptian region?

a. cat and dog
b. bird and beetle
c. snake and lizard

2. How did the first civilized people take care of their dead?

a. sailed them down the Nile
b. cremation
c. shallow grave with supplies for travel

3. What did they think came after death?

a. life
b. nothing
c. return to the Mother Creator

4. Their first kings were worshipped as gods. How did they celebrate a king on his 30th year of reigning?

a. Sacrificed 30 children for him
b. Ate him
c. Great feast and gifts

5. Much trade ensued over the years and the Egyptian area was influenced by Babylonian (Iraqi area) beliefs. What did they worship?

a. Death
b. Sun
c. Water

6. What did the first great Egyptian region monarch focus on?

a. war and gaining more land
b. agricultural growth and irrigation
c. developing a religion that included tremendous sacrifice

7. What did the second great king, Mena, focus the most on?

a. uniting his kingdom
b. agriculture - guarding against famine
c. religion - making people subservient to him as god-king

8. What was invented by Egyptian regional people in the Late Stone Age?

a. Calendar
b. Pythagorean Theorem
c. Pyramids

9. What is the true wealth of Egypt drawn from?

a. its people
b. its kings
c. its soil

PREDICT BEFORE YOU READ - Take a guess

1. According to Egyptian myth, what existed first?

a. sun
b. ocean
c. land

2. What Greek god is like the Egyptian's first god?

a. Zeus
b. Poseidon
c. Ares
d. Hera

3. What similarity does the ancient Egyptian religion have to Christianity?

a. a crucifixtion
b. a trinity
c. a concept of forgiveness

4. How were Egyptian gods represented?

a. As beautiful people
b. With both human and animal characteristics
c. As combinations of earth's elements with animal heads

5. Why were elaborate tombs and mummification promoted?

a. The spirit (ka) could not live on without the body, so they could not be separated
b. They were originally keeping the bodies protected from animals who would eat them.
c. This became a tradition promoted by builders and mummifiers -for money!

6. What two places could a dead person go to?

a. paradise or a place of hunger and thirst
b. a castle with servants or a cold ice berg
c. up to the sun or down to the depths of the sea

READ AND THEN ANSWER

1. According to Egyptian myth, what existed first?

a. sun
b. ocean
c. land

2. What Greek god is like the Egyptian's first god?

a. Zeus
b. Poseidon
c. Ares
d. Hera

3. What similarity does the ancient Egyptian religion have to Christianity?

a. a crucifixtion
b. a trinity
c. a concept of forgiveness

4. How were Egyptian gods represented?

a. As beautiful people
b. With both human and animal characteristics
c. As combinations of earth's elements with animal heads

5. Why were elaborate tombs and mummification promoted?

a. The spirit (ka) could not live on without the body, so they could not be separated
b. They were originally keeping the bodies protected from animals who would eat them.
c. This became a tradition promoted by builders and mummifiers -for money!

6. What two places could a dead person go to?

a. paradise or a place of hunger and thirst
b. a castle with servants or a cold ice berg
c. up to the sun or down to the depths of the sea

ARE YOU GETTING ANY SMARTER?
TAKE THIS QUIZ BEFORE YOU BEGIN

1. How did ancient Egyptians under Menes, react to having different groups of people along the Nile believing in different pagan (mythological) religions?

a. They compromised, combining them all into one
b. They warred, forcing the supremacy of one
c. They stayed separate and apart, fearing contact

2. One creation story centers on a god named Ptah. What is everying created from in this myth?

a. Chaos
b. Water
c. Notions from Ptah's heart
d. Ra creates everything from the sun

3. How does another creation story, this one from Hermopolis, describe creation?

a. The sun god eats and regurgitates humanity
b. Male toads and female snakes begin it all

4. What is startling about the creation story during the Old Kingdom?

a. There are similarities to both the Judeo-Christian creation story and the Greek creation myth
b. Humans are created by animals who have gone nuts

TAKE THIS QUIZ AFTER READING

1. How did ancient Egyptians under Menes, react to having different groups of people along the Nile believing in different pagan (mythological) religions?

a. They compromised, combining them all into one
b. They warred, forcing the supremacy of one
c. They stayed separate and apart, fearing contact

2. One creation story centers on a god named Ptah. What is everying created from in this myth?

a. Chaos
b. Water
c. Notions from Ptah's heart
d. Ra creates everything from the sun

3. How does another creation story, this one from Hermopolis, describe creation?

a. The sun god eats and regurgitates humanity
b. Male toads and female snakes begin it all

4. What is startling about the creation story during the Old Kingdom?

a. There are similarities to both the Judeo-Christian creation story and the Greek creation myth
b. Humans are created by animals who have gone nuts