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🔺 Ancient Egypt

Sail the Nile into a land of pyramids, pharaohs, and mummies!

2
lessons
~15 min
to learn
🏛️ History
subject
Ages 6–12
level
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What you’ll learn

  1. Describe how the Nile shaped Egyptian life and explain who the pharaohs were and how Egyptians wrote.Ancient Egypt grew along the flooding Nile River, whose rich mud made farming possible. Pharaohs, seen as part god, ruled the land. Egyptians wrote with hundreds of picture symbols called hieroglyphs.
  2. Explain why pyramids were built, how mummies were made, and who the Egyptian gods were.Egyptians built giant pyramids as tombs to prepare pharaohs for the afterlife and made bodies into mummies. They worshipped many gods in grand temples and believed the gods controlled the world around them.

Questions this course answers

Why was the Nile River so important to ancient Egypt?

Each year the Nile flooded and then dropped, leaving dark, fertile mud that let Egyptians grow crops in the desert.

What was a pharaoh?

The pharaoh was Egypt's ruler, and people believed the pharaoh was part human and part god.

What are hieroglyphs?

Hieroglyphs were more than 700 picture symbols that stood for sounds, words, or ideas.

What was the Great Pyramid of Giza built to be?

The Great Pyramid was a huge tomb built to protect the pharaoh Khufu's body and treasures for the afterlife.

What is a mummy?

A mummy is a body that was dried with natron and wrapped in linen so it would be preserved for the afterlife.

Which Egyptian god was the sun god?

Ra was the powerful sun god, while Anubis watched over the dead and Bastet had a cat's head.

Grounded in trusted sources

  • Ancient Egypt facts and history, National Geographic Kids (kids.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/ancient-egypt)
  • Ten Facts About Ancient Egypt, National Geographic Kids (natgeokids.com/uk/discover/history/egypt/ten-facts-about-ancient-egypt)
  • Ancient Egypt, Ducksters (ducksters.com/history/ancient_egypt.php)
  • Ancient Egyptian Pyramids, Ducksters (ducksters.com/history/ancient_egyptian_pyramids.php)

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