2A -- Pre-flood Part Two, Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom Egypt (about 3150 BC)

 Each lesson should be covered in two weeks. You cannot cover every suggested activity as well as those from the supplemental materials, so choose a few that will work well for your family.

1. Lesson Pages from Supplemental Materials:

       ·From Adam to Us: p. 50-61 (additional activites are in the Map Book and Student Workbook)

·Story of the World, vol. 1: p.14-20, 25-31 (additional activites are in the accompanying Activity Book)

2. Study material for family discussion (older students can read on their own, parents can read and summarize for younger students):

This is out of order as far as most history lessons, are concerned. But there are a few logical facts that point to the Old Kingdom of Egypt being a pre-flood kingdom.

            First of all, in Abraham 1:23 we learn that after the flood, the daughter of Ham and Egyptus discovered Egypt while it was underwater and later settled there with her son. This suggests there was some kind of landmark sticking out of the water, showing her where she wanted to settle, and she waited until the water abated to actually settle there.

            Also, any timeline of Egypt goes backward from known history, using recorded lengths of the reigns of kings, to establish dates. Doing this puts the Old Kingdom beginning before the time of the flood and ending after the flood. There is no solid date for the flood, but it seems to be somewhere between 2370 to 2345 BC. If we account for the flood, and put a break between the end of the Old Kingdom and the time Egyptus’ daughter established another kingdom (Egypt’s Middle Kingdom) built on the relics of the Old, the dates for the Old Kingdom would push back a little farther. And the Old Kingdom was built on the framework of the earlier dynastic tradition, putting Egyptian history even farther back. Either way, logically the major monuments including Sphinx and Great Pyramid were built before the flood. This makes sense, as there would be hardly any population for some time after the flood, and those projects took good technology and lots of manpower. The pyramids of the later kingdoms were never as magnificent as those of the Old Kingdom.

            It would seem that the family of the daughter of Egyptus was not affected by the language confounding that happened at the tower of Babel, which makes sense if they were not connected to that building project. They continued with the same language depicted by the old hieroglyphics.

            An interesting side note: we only know one word from the language of the Jaredites, who did not have their language confounded, which is deseret or honeybee. This matches the Egyptian word for honeybee (obviously this is not enough information to make any kind of conclusion).

            Also, tradition tells us the Great Pyramid and others were tombs, but there is no definitive proof of this. They may have had other pre-flood uses. But we can be certain the Old Kingdom ended in great wickedness, along with the rest of the kingdoms in Noah’s time.

             The off-size dimensions of the Sphinx hint that it was possibly a representation of the Egyptian god Anubis, with a dog face. This face may have crumbled, and then a pharaoh saw the opportunity to repair the monument with a tribute to himself with his own face. The monument has been buried in sand more than once in history and has had to be dug out of the ever-encroaching desert.

 

3. videos:

           https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gD0K7oH92U (How mummies were made)

             https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWkrqUpTdT8 (How the pyramid complex looked)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpb4_K7gMzc (Old Kingdom Egypt)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4Mwup8FQU (Old Kingdom, good pics of statues, pyramids)

4. Mapping: Make a salt dough map of Egypt. When it is dry, paint the Nile River, Red Sea, and Mediterranean Sea. Make small clay pyramids and place them in the location of Giza. Keep this map for future lessons.

 Salt dough: Mix together 4 cups of flour, 2 cups of salt, 2 cups of water, and 2 tablespoons of cream of tartar.

 Cut out an outline map of the country and trace it onto a piece of carboard. Press the dough into the outline you have drawn on the cardboard. Let the dough dry overnight, and then you can paint it.

5.  Hieroglyph activity:

https://home-school.lovetoknow.com/worksheets-printables/egyptian-hieroglyphics-kids-fun-facts-activities

 

6. Write or narrate about what you think your life would have been like in the Egyptian Old Kingdom.

 

7. Poster: Draw a scene from Ancient Egypt. You can add the date 3150 BC, which is the approximate date of King Narmer, the believed unifier of Egypt, or you can just write Pre-Flood.

 

8. World History Reading: There are more picture filled books about Ancient Egypt than I can name. Here are a couple of suggestions, but you should peruse your library or Amazon.com for more:

·  National Geographic Kids Everything Ancient Egypt by Crispin Boyer

• Eyewitness Books: Pyramid  The first 39 pages are about the pyramids of the Old Kingdom 

 

 9. Discussion For Teens: You will research two opposing sides of a topic, and then discuss these with a parent or peers and come to an agreement on the topic. Your consensus may agree with one side or another, or may end up being some combination of the two. Remember, whatever your opinion, it may or not be the full truth. Some truth will not be known fully until it is revealed. For this lesson, discuss whether or not you believe Old Kingdom Egypt was a pre-flood kingdom.