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

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Statue of Zeus at Olympia

Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

Colossus of Rhodes

Lighthouse at Alexandria

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