Geography
This rich soil coats the bottom of the Nile River and flows out onto the banks each year.
What is silt?
This group of the Egyptian social pyramid may have created baskets, sandals, or weavings.
Who were artisans?
Ancient Egyptian pictures that stood for words or letters
What are hieroglyphics?
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Hieroglyphics
This document was thought to provide your soul with the instructions to make it to a happy afterlife
This major city in ancient Egypt was a religious center with many temples to gods
What is Thebes?
These ditches were dug outwards from the Nile to bring more water to the surrounding land for farming.
What are irrigation canals?
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What are canals?
Who is the pharaoh?
A type of fabric woven from flax plants
What is linen?
What is a sarcophagus?
This female pharaoh ruled peacefully and expanded Egypt without creating conflicts.
Who is Hatshepsut?
This handy invention allowed farmers to easily lift water from the Nile to transport it.
What is the shadoof?
This groups' important job was to keep the gods and the pharaoh happy by performing rituals.
Who were the priests?
A four-sided pyramid-shaped monument to a king or god
What is an obelisk?
This special chemical dried out bodies and organs in the mummification process
Architects (builders) in ancient Egypt used this type of math to make strong buildings that have lasted many thousands of years.
By creating large boats with sails, Egyptians were able to travel long distances on the Nile in order to do this.
What is trade with other communities?
What is a surplus?
The ending part of a river, where it branches into smaller rivers and streams
What is a delta?
This powerful pharaoh ordered the Great Pyramids to be built for his tomb.
This beautiful temple was built by Ramses the Great to honor himself, and his beloved wife Nefertari.
What is Abu Simbel?
Egyptians were the first to add yeast to their flour, creating this.
Bread
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Risen Bread
This group was the largest of the Egyptian social pyramid.
Who were the slaves?
The order in which kings ascend the throne within a family
What is succession
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What is a dynasty
This jackal-headed God mythically weighed people's hearts against a feather to decide if they had lived a good life.
Who is Anubis?
Ancient Egyptian doctors were the first to use this natural substance to treat infections and wounds.
Moldy Bread or Penicillin
(May accept honey).