Egypt on the Nile: teacher key

Ancient Egypt, grade 4 edition, written for 4th grade. A fast tour of ancient Egypt: the river, the pyramids, the people who built them, and the writing nobody could read.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. Which way does the flood leave the land after the Nile rises?
   • With deep snow
   • With rich dark soil (answer)
   • With tall dunes
2. Who united Upper and Lower Egypt around 3100 B.C.?
   • Khufu
   • Cleopatra
   • Narmer (answer)
3. Why were workers paid in food such as grain?
   • Egypt had no money then (answer)
   • They did not want coins
   • Grain was free
4. What did embalmers use to dry a body?
   • Sand paper
   • Wax
   • Natron (answer)
5. Why did the tomb workers at Deir el-Medina strike?
   • They wanted a holiday
   • Their pay was 18 days late (answer)
   • The tomb was too hot
6. What three kinds of writing are on the Rosetta Stone?
   • Hieroglyphic, Demotic and Greek (answer)
   • Latin, Greek and French
   • Only hieroglyphs

Words

• natron: drying salt
• pharaoh: Egyptian king
• mummies: kept bodies
• hieroglyphs: Egyptian writing
• strike: work stoppage