Learn the basics about Ancient Egypt *Made for an Adult Basic Education class - a great deal of information is not listed (as to not overwhelm the students)

1. Ancient Egypt
3100 BCE – 30 BCE

2. Where is Egypt?

3. Where is Egypt?
• What continent
is Egypt in?
North America
South America
Asia
Australia
Europe
Africa

4. History of Egypt
Today A long time ago

5. Timeline
Building of Pyramids
Used Hieroglyphics for Writing
3000 BCE 2500 BCE 332 BCE
Alexander the Great
ruled Egypt
52 BCE
Cleopatra VII
ruled Egypt
Romans rule Egypt
31 BCE

6. De-Coding
• Why do we use these short forms?
• What do they mean?

7. Alphabet
• We have an English alphabet
• Other languages have different
alphabets

8. Egyptian Alphabet
• Instead of using letters, the Egyptians used pictures for
whole words
• But it also has symbols for
single letters
• Does anyone know what this
is called?

11. Resources
https://www.pbs.org/empires/egypt/educators/index.html
https://www-tc.pbs.org/empires/egypt/pdf/lesson1.pdf