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Web Quest Site: http://www.stagge.net/webquest/index.htm ===April 15, 2008 Directions: Follow the Webquest directions. On your group wiki pages, begin posting the information you will use to create your game. I suggest that you agree as a group how to format your home page in a way that allows you to keep your information arranged in a clear, organized manner. Use the discussion pages to begin your dialogue as to who is responsible for different components of the project.=== Great Resources:=== British Museum: http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html How to Design a Computer Game: http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Cheap-Computer-Game-Using-PowerPoint=== Lorraine 1)What was the Black Land for and what did the people use it for? ==Answer: The Black Land was the fertile land on the banks of the nile. The Ancient Egyptians used this land for growing their crops. 2)What is the Great Sphinx, and where is it located? ==Answer: The Great Sphinx is a large human-headed lion that was carved from a mound of natural rock. It is located in Giza where it guards the pyramids. 3)Why are there lotus flowers painted and carved on walls? Why is it important? ==Answer: The shape of the Nile River Valley resembles a lotus flower, the ancient Egyptian symbol for the regeneration of life. The long, narrow river valley is the stem, the delta that spreads out in the shape of a triangle is the flower. 4)What did the Red Land provide the Egyptians? ==Answer: It provided the ancient Egyptians with a source for precious metals and semi-precious stones. 5)Who was Osiris? ==Answer: Osiris is the god of the living and the dead. 6)Where is the Lower Egypt located? ==Answer: It is located at the Nile Delta.
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William 1)What was the Red Land used for? ==Answer:The red land was the barren desert that protected Egypt on two sides. These deserts separated ancient Egypt from neighboring countries and invading armies 2)What was so significant about King Narmer that made him a well known pharaoh?? ==Answer: He is so well known because he was the first pharaoh to wear the red crown and the white crown together. 3)What does the Aswan Dam do to Egypt?? ==Answer: It captures the world's longest river, the Nile River, in the world's third largest reservoirs, Lake Nasser. 4)Where is Nubia located from Egypt??? ==Answer: It is a region south of Egypt. 5)How long is the Nile River?? ==Answer: 6695 km 6)Does the Nile run upstream or downstream??? ==Answer: Upstream

Sam 1) 2) 3) 4)What percentage of the people of Egypt live along the Nile? ==Answer: 99% 5)Where does the Nile empty out into? ==Answer: The Mediterranean Sea 6)

Carl 1)What is the difference of the Red Land and the Black Land? ==Answer: The difference between the Red and Black Land is that the Red Land is a desert and the Black Land is next to the nile. 2)why is the black land called the black land ==Answer: It is called black land because the soil is more fertile 3)where is Egypt ==Answer: Egypt is in the north of africa. 4)what was the claimate ==Answer: Very hot 5)Who was re? ==answer: the sun god 6)Where was the capitol city located ==Answer: in the north

Kyoko 1) What are some things about the Nile? Answer: It is a river that flows all through Egypt, and is used by everyone to keep land fertile and give water for other uses. 2) Why was King Tut's tomb so famous? ==Answer: His tomb was famous because it has never been robbed and stolen. Another thing was that if people took his treasure/ personal belongings then they would be cursed for the rest of their lives. 3) Why were pyramids made? ==Answer: The pyramids were built because the pharaoh's tomb would be placed inside and their treasures would be with them. 4)When the Nile floods, what advanteges does it bring to egypt? ==Answer: It makes the soil fertile. 5) In what year did the Lower and Upper Egypt occer. ==Answer: 3100 b.c. 6) What does the Nile god have for a head? ==Answer: Crocodile


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The pharaohs had absolute power; complete control over their people. For help in making decisions the pharaoh would go to his advisor or Ma'at the goddesses of truth and justice. He would make all the choices, laws and government. But the United States have three different branches of the government. They are set like this because one won't have more power than the other branch. House of Representatives make the laws, Senate votes for yes or no, then lastly, the idea goes to the presedent and he votes for the final answer. __**History** When the Akhenatens beleife in the sun god created such a stir in ancient egypt because he said to the people that they could only believe in one god band that god was the sun god ra. King ramses the 3rd is called the great because it was in his reign the battle of Kadesh was fought. Hatshepsut was different because hatshepsut was the first women pharaoh of Egypt and before then pharaoh was usualy a man so she took on all the responsebillities of a pharaoh. Tutankamen was remembered because he was the youngest to rule and the youngest to die and also hiss tomb was the only one that was not robbed. the egyptians built the pyramids to burry famouse people and the difference between a pyramid and a obelisk is that you burry people in pyramid and an obelisk is just a statue. The valley of the kings is where the kings are burried.__ __**Economics** The Ancient Egyptians exported many goods such as stone, pottery vases, linen, papyrus, gold vessels, ox hides, ropes, lentils, and dried fish. They got these goods from neighboring countries. Most of them were mostly raw material and luxury items. Horses, cattle, silver, minerals, small livestock, and cedar wood came from one of their trading countries, Syria and Palestine. Cyprus delivered copper and ivory. The south, especially Nubia, was rich in gold and mineral deposits, building stone, ebony, ivory, ostrich feathers and eggs, as well as livestock and cattle. The sea route began on the Nile at the port of Memphis and led by way of the Pelusiac branch of the Nile to the large port centers in the eastern Mediterranean, where Egyptian trade could link up with overseas trade. The simplest type of boat used in ancient Egypt was the skiff, made from papyrus reeds that were tied together. Skiffs were used for fishing and hunting game in the marshes, or for travelling short distances. The wheel was probably introduced into Egypt by the Hyksos, an Asiatic people who invaded the country and ruled it in the fifteenth and sixteenth dynasties. The Hyksos most likely had horse drawn chariots, which were used in warfare.__
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