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6th grade Gods, temples and beliefs in ancient Egypt worksheet

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Gods, temples and beliefs in ancient Egypt

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  1. Read this first

    Some gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt

    NameWhat Egyptians believed
    Ra (also called Atum)?
    Amuna god of Thebes who became the chief state god; joined with Ra as Amun-Ra
    Ptahin some accounts, brought people into being by the force of his thoughts
    Khnumin other accounts, shaped people on a potter's wheel
    Thoththe god of knowledge and writing
    Maatthe goddess of truth and balance, the right order of the world

    The cell marked ? is blank. Below the chart: Egyptian writings give several different creation accounts, side by side. Gods could be shown in human, animal or mixed form; scholars think an animal form showed something about what a god was like.

  2. Pia's chart has a blank: what did Egyptians believe about Ra?

    • The goddess of truth and balance
    • The creator and sun god
    • The god of knowledge and writing
    • The god who shaped people on a wheel

  3. Ren's chart has a blank: which goddess stood for truth and balance?

    • Maat
    • Khnum
    • Thoth
    • Amun

  4. Tala's chart has a blank: what did some accounts say Khnum did?

    • Became the chief state god
    • Brought people into being by thought
    • Crossed the sky by boat each day
    • Shaped people on a potter's wheel

  5. Some gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt

    NameWhat Egyptians believed
    Ra (also called Atum)the creator and sun god, who crossed the sky in a boat
    Amuna god of Thebes who became the chief state god; joined with Ra as Amun-Ra
    Ptahin some accounts, brought people into being by the force of his thoughts
    Khnumin other accounts, shaped people on a potter's wheel
    Thoththe god of knowledge and writing
    Maatthe goddess of truth and balance, the right order of the world

    Below the chart: Egyptian writings give several different creation accounts, side by side. Gods could be shown in human, animal or mixed form; scholars think an animal form showed something about what a god was like.

  6. Which two accounts in the chart tell how people came to be, Ari asks?

    • Thoth's writing and Maat's balance
    • Maat's balance and Amun's city
    • Ptah's thoughts and Khnum's wheel
    • Amun's city and Ra's boat

  7. Amun and Ra were joined into one name. What was it, Bo asks?

    • Amun-Ptah
    • Ra-Thoth
    • Maat-Ra
    • Amun-Ra

  8. Esme reads the word temple. In ancient Egypt, what was a temple?

    • A market for selling grain
    • A fort that guarded the river
    • A god's house, served by priests
    • The king's family palace

  9. Kira reads the word maat. What did maat mean to Egyptians?

    • A creator god's thoughts
    • Truth and right order
    • A city of the god Amun
    • A boat used at festivals

  10. Which sentence about Ra is written the careful history way, Luz asks?

    • Egyptians believed Ra was the god of writing
    • Ra crosses the sky by boat each day
    • Egyptians believed Ra crossed the sky
    • Ra was the one god Egyptians honored

  11. Milo's friend says some gods were shown as animals because Egyptians worshipped animals. What is the best reply?

    • Scholars think it showed a god's nature
    • Disagree: no god had an animal form
    • Agree: the gods had animal shapes alone
    • Agree: the animals themselves were the gods

  12. Egyptian writings give several creation accounts. How should Noah describe them?

    • Each account came from Greece
    • One account was true; the rest were false
    • Several accounts side by side
    • Egyptians had no ideas about creation
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Gods, temples and beliefs in ancient Egypt. Every version has 10 questions, and the answer key prints on the second page.

What your child will learn

  • I can name some Egyptian gods and goddesses (Ra, Amun, Ptah, Khnum, Thoth, Maat) and say what Egyptians believed about each, in the past tense.
  • I can describe temple life: daily offerings, who served in theory and in practice, festivals with the boat shrine, and the duty to keep maat.
  • I can follow changes over time (Thebes and Amun, Akhenaten and the Aten, Abydos, Karnak), read a passage by Herodotus as an outsider's view, and say how we know about the rituals.

Standard: D2.His.3.6-8

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Your child read the wrong row of the chart. Find the row's name first, then read across.

Your child chose a claim that says more than the evidence shows. Keep the claim as small as the evidence.

Your child wrote a belief as a plain fact. History says what Egyptians believed, in the past tense.

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Your child read the wrong row of the chart. Find the row's name first, then read across.

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