4.3

Listening, 4 .3 Listen to the second part, and fill in the gaps with no more than three words.

Part 2

Egyptians figured out amazing ways to cut stone to use in their temples and obelisks.

An obelisk is a tall narrow monument that becomes nearer as it goes up.

They created a writing material similar to paper called papyrus from reeds found in the Nile.

Egyptians were excellent shipbuilders and excelled at mathematics.

They used fractions, decimals, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and basic ideas of geometry.

Egyptian art and architecture is famous and has been reused and copied by many other civilizations,

including Greece, Rome and even the United States.