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Building The Great Pyramid Video Anticipation Guide

After reading each statement, determine if you agree or disagree with it.

Before Viewing the Video

After Viewing the Video

Agree The Great Pyramid is considered one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World.

Agree

Disagree The Great Pyramid was built by slaves.

Disagree

Agree The Egyptians had great knowledge of the stars.

Agree

Disagree The Great Pyramid was the tallest structure on Earth until the building of the Sears Tower.

Disagree

Disagree The Egyptians knowledge of steel allowed them to easily chisel the stones used in the Pyramid.

Disagree

Agree The Average weigh of each stone was 2 ½ tons.

Agree

Disagree The Egyptians built cranes to lift the stones onto the Great Pyramid.

Disagree

Disagree The most important tool the Egyptians had was the chisel.

Disagree

Disagree The Pharaoh was buried with many valuable grave goods in the Great Pyramid.

Disagree

Disagree The Egyptians saw the Great Pyramid as simply a tomb for the Pharaoh.

Disagree

Agree The Great Pyramid is a symbol of human collaboration.

Agree

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Building the Great Pyramids Video Questions

1.) When does construction on the Great Pyramid begin? 2480 B.C.E.

2.) Who are they building the Great Pyramid for? Khufu

3.) What is the Great Pyramid considered? The last of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World

4.) Who build the Great Pyramid? Farmers

5.) Why did Egypt not need slaves? Because of the annual flooding of the Nile.

6.) Describe the Pyramid constructed 60 years before the Great Pyramid. Stacked 6 rectangles on

top of each other.

7.) What did the Egyptians use the stars to measure? Calendar, the Inundation, the construction of

the Great Pyramid.

8.) What structure was the first to be taller than the Great Pyramid? The Eifel Tower

9.) How many courses was the Great Pyramid? 200 limestone courses.

10.) What was the first part to construction? Leveling the ground and laying the pyramid base.

11.) What were conditions like for the builders? Provided with settler and food.

12.) What were the first jobs for new conscripts? Caring water.

13.) How much stone was needed for the great pyramid? 5 million tons

14.) How many quarry men were needed? 1500 a day

15.) What were their tools made of, and why? Bronze because it was the hardest metal known at the

time.

16.) What were some specialist jobs? Metal workers, Quarry Men, Scribes.

17.) What did the average block of limestone weigh? 2 ½ tons

18.) How were the blocks moved? Dragged on wooden sleds.

19.) How long did most conscripts work at the pyramid site? Two months.

20.) How did the workers get the stones up the pyramid? Using ramps.

21.) On average, how much stone was quarried and dragged up the pyramid each day? 1000 tons

22.) How many burial chambers did the Great Pyramid have? 3

23.) What were permanent workers given as payment? Clothing, beer, bread, meat, houses.

24.) Being able to build a pyramid meant that Egypt was also able to build what? The first unified

state.

25.) What were masons, and what was their most important tool? Master stone workers, the set

square.

26.) How were the outer blocks different from the inner blocks? Out blocks were precisely cut, inner

blocks were nothing more than rubble.

27.) How many workers worked on the pyramid each day? 25,000

28.) What arrived in Giza 10 years after the pyramid was started? A granite block

29.) How many blocks were there, and how much did they weigh? 9 blocks, 50 tons

30.) What were these blocks used for. To create the roof of the burial chamber.

31.) What can be seen on each of the roof blocks? The names of each gang that move the block.

32.) What was the final block laid on top of the pyramid? The capstone

33.) What happened after the capstone was placed? The ramps were torn down and the outer blocks

were chiseled smooth.

34.) What were the three smaller pyramids for? Khufu’s wives.

35.) When did Khufu die? 2457 B.C.E.

36.) What was Khufu’s coffin made of? Cedar

37.) Was Khufu buried with valuable grave good, why? No, valuable grave goods were associated

with the New Kingdom.

38.) What was in the third burial chamber? A great stone sarcophagus.

39.) Besides being a tomb, what is the pyramid? The means of reaching heaven and the

indestructibles.

40.) What is the Great Pyramid a testament to? Human collaboration.