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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
The Great Pyramid is considered one of the 7
Wonders of the Ancient World.
The Great Pyramid was built by slaves.
The Egyptians had great knowledge of the stars.
The Great Pyramid was the tallest structure on Earth
until the building of the Sears Tower.
The Egyptians knowledge of steel allowed them to
easily chisel the stones used in the Pyramid.
The Average weigh of each stone was 2 ½ tons.
The Egyptians built cranes to lift the stones onto the
Great Pyramid.
The most important tool the Egyptians had was the
chisel.
The Pharaoh was buried with many valuable grave
goods in the Great Pyramid.
The Egyptians saw the Great Pyramid as simply a
tomb for the Pharaoh.
The Great Pyramid is a symbol of human
collaboration.
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Building the Great Pyramids Video Questions
1.)
When does construction on the Great Pyramid begin?
2.)
Who are they building the Great Pyramid for?
3.)
What is the Great Pyramid considered?
4.)
Who build the Great Pyramid?
5.)
Why did Egypt not need slaves?
6.)
Describe the Pyramid constructed 60 years before the Great Pyramid.
7.)
What did the Egyptians use the stars to measure?
8.)
What structure was the first to be taller than the Great Pyramid?
9.)
How many courses was the Great Pyramid?
10.)
What was the first part to construction?
11.)
What were conditions like for the builders?
12.)
What were the first jobs for new conscripts?
13.)
How much stone was needed for the great pyramid?
14.)
How many quarry men were needed?
15.)
What were their tools made of, and why?
16.)
What were some specialist jobs?
17.)
What did the average block of limestone weigh?
18.)
How were the blocks moved?
19.)
How long did most conscripts work at the pyramid site?
20.)
How did the workers get the stones up the pyramid?
21.)
On average, how much stone was quarried and dragged up the pyramid each day?
22.)
How many burial chambers did the Great Pyramid have?
23.)
What were permanent workers given as payment?
24.)
Being able to build a pyramid meant that Egypt was also able to build what?.
25.)
What were masons, and what was their most important tool?
26.)
How were the outer blocks different from the inner blocks?
27.)
How many workers worked on the pyramid each day?
28.)
What arrived in Giza 10 years after the pyramid was started?
29.)
How many blocks were there, and how much did they weigh?
30.)
What were these blocks used for.?
31.)
What can be seen on each of the roof blocks?
32.)
What was the final block laid on top of the pyramid?
33.)
What happened after the capstone was placed?
34.)
What were the three smaller pyramids for?
35.)
When did Khufu die?
36.)
What was Khufu’s coffin made of?
37.)
Was Khufu buried with valuable grave good, why?
38.)
What was in the third burial chamber?
39.)
Besides being a tomb, what is the pyramid?
40.)
What is the Great Pyramid a testament to?