Daily Opener What was the Rosetta Stone and why
was it so important for historians?
What do you know about the pyramids?
Pyramids There are many pyramids in
Egypt Built to be tombs for the
pharaohs The most famous one is called
the Great Pyramid
The Great Pyramid at Giza
• The Great Pyramid of Giza is about 4,500 years old, and is the only ancient wonder still standing.
• Built by Pharoah Khufu• *KHUFU- Egyptian pharaoh who built the Great
Pyramid
The Great Pyramid at Giza
Until the early 1800's, the Great Pyramid at Giza was the tallest building in the world!
The Great Pyramid at Giza
The Great Pyramid at GizaThe Great pyramid was made by hand! It is nearly 800 feet long, 450 feet high. It was built with over two million of blocks of stone.
The average weight of each stone is about 2,500 pounds - around the same weight as a car!
Great Pyramid The 20 year project involved as many
as 100,000 people and took a huge amount of Egypt’s resources
Entire cliffs of stone were cut into blocks to make the monument
Why were the pyramids built? What were they made of? How demanding was building the
pyramids, in terms of the cost in time and resources?
OPEN TO PAGE 80 How were the stone blocks brought
to the pyramid site? How were the block brought higher
and higher as the pyramid grew taller?
How heavy was each block? What does the diagram show?
SUMMING UP THE CHAPTER Menes untied the kingdoms of Upper and Lower
Egypt to form the largest government in the world at the time
The pharaoh was central to Egypt’s government, economy, and religion
The writing system of Egypt, called hieroglyphics, provided a way for government workers to communicate over long distances
Ordinary people worked to build huge, government building projects like the Great Pyramid. This strained both Egypt’s economy and it’s people
Visit all Seven Wonders of the Ancient WorldGreat Pyramid at Giza
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Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Colossus of Rhodes
Lighthouse at Alexandria
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