Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Ancient Eqypt Quiz

First picture
  • The great sphinx
  • built after pyramids
  • oldest monumental sculpture in the world 
  • built  for honor the the pharaoh of the time. 
  • is a lions body with a human's head. 
  • very old. 
pic 2
  • nile river
  • flows into the delta of the meditrainian ocean 
  • every june it floods
  • when water leaves flooded area, leaves fertil soil 
  • flows north 
  • is in a lot of Egyptian myths etc. 
pic 3
  • pharaoh 
  • the pharaoh was the ruler of both the lands of Egypt 
  • was thought to be a god 
  • was thought to be able to communicate with the gods 
  • once was a woman 
  • leader of military, and political system , and religion. 
  • was worshiped 
pic 4 
  • hyrogliphics 
  • the wrightig of the egyiption poeple 
  • written by scribes 
  • tells battle storys, or history. 
  • is used for comunnication 
pic 5
  • Chariot 
  • the rider is a soilder 
  • has the wepon of a bow and arrow 
  • the image was carved by a scribe and  then painted. 
 Essay 

the farmers were considers lower classed, but they were not the lowest. the slaves were the lowest. the farmers were the people who gathered and harvested the food. the farmers came up with many technological advances to do that better. every june the nile rive flooded, the farmers would dig trenches to direct the watewr were to go, so the soil that was nice and rich was in the area they wanted it to be. the farmers were the second to lowest class. and the upper class, or the "white Kilt class" were the second to highest class, right next to pharaohs. the "white kilt class" was called that because they always wore bleached white cloths. this class was filled up with priest, advisers to the pharaohs, doctors or physicians, and engineers. they had money and had some power. were the farmers did not. the upper class did not have to work for labor, were the majority of the pyramids and building made for the pharaohs were built by farmers. they had many differences between the two classes, and there are many different classes in between them. 

1 comment:

  1. 1. 4/5 "Built after pyramids"? Not necessarily
    2. 5/5
    3. 5/5
    4. 4/5 other purposes: medical, financial records ("wrightig"? Really?)
    5. 4/5 used bronze on arrows
    Essay: 22/25 When you are writing an essay for a quiz, you have to pay attention to spelling and capitalizing the first word in a sentence. There's decent content here; just remember, you're not texting.

    Total: 44/50

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