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1、 Look at the pictures on P85 and discuss the questions below them The order should be BAC The earliest pyramid is B which is called step pyramid It was built during the Third Dynasty 2800 BC Step pyramid is generally considered the Writing first tomb in Egypt to be built entirely of stone anywhere i
2、n the world The second is A It was built in about 2 550 B C King Khufu the second pharaoh of the fourth dynasty commissioned the building of his tomb at Giza According to archaeologists the top of the Khufu pyramid is in a way ripped off which is in common with the first picture Then the third one i
3、s the third picture It is called bent pyramid which was built for Khafre the fourth pharaoh of the fourth dynasty The bent pyramid at Dahshur shows us that the ancient Egyptians experimented a lot with the slope of the pyramids In the middle of construction the builders must have decided that the sl
4、ope of the building was too steep to continue Thus the top half of the pyramid has a different slope The pyramid had sloping sides so that the dead pharaoh could climb to the sky and live forever The pyramid represented the rays of the sun I think the chronological order of bulling the pyramids is B
5、 A C The earliest pyramid is B which is called step pyramid It was built during the Third Dynasty 2800 B C Step pyramid is generally considered the first tomb in Egypt to be built entirely of stone The second is A sample version A It was built about 2 550 BC King Khufu the second pharaoh of the four
6、th dynasty commissioned the building of his tomb at Giza Then the third one is C It is called bent pyramid which was built for Khafre the fourth pharaoh of the fourth dynasty The bent pyramid at Dahshur shows us that the ancient Egyptians experimented a lot with the slope of the pyramids In the midd
7、le of construction the builders must have decided that the slope of the building was too steep to continue Thus the top half of the pyramid has a different slope All the three pyramids come to a point at the top As its name suggests step pyramid is a series of six levels of stone decreasing in size
8、as they ascend to about 200 feet 60 meters in height Egyptologists have developed many theories about why the tombs of the early pharaohs were built in the pyramid shape Variable reasons are possible the pyramid represented the first land to appear at the beginning of time a hill called Ben Ben the pyramid had sloping sides so that the dead pharaoh could symbolically climb to the sky and live forever and the pyramid represented the rays of the sun
