The Nile River
The Ancient Egyptians gave this nickname to the river.
What is "the Gift"?
This was the language of the Ancient Egyptians.
What was hieroglyphics?
This was the name of the salt used to preserve the dead body.
What is natron?
She was the female pharaoh whom Ancient Egypt tried to erase from history.
Who was Hatshepsut?
The Old Kingdom established the capital of Ancient Egypt at this city.
What was Memphis?
This is the name of the most fertile area of the Nile, where it breaks off into many different branches. (Hint: it looks like a triangle.)
What is the delta?
Because the Ancient Egyptian language was so complex and reserved for the upper class, this form was used to communicate with the people.
What was Demotic?
This writing guided the spirit in Ancient Egypt through the afterlife.
What is the Book of the Dead?
He was the last great pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
Who was Ramses II?
During the Middle Kingdom, this foreign group ruled Ancient Egypt for a little longer than a century.
Who were the Hyksos?
This plant grows along the Nile's banks and it proved useful when it came to writing.
What is papyrus?
The discovery of this was crucial to translating hieroglyphics. (Hint: it is now in London, England).
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This is the process for preserving a dead body.
What is embalming?
Pharaohs were buried here, after pyramids were no longer built.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
The New Kingdom fell largely because of this problem.
What were foreign wars?
The Nile River flows into this large body of water to Egypt's north.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
These three languages were written on a rock which cracked the Ancient Egyptian code.
What are hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek?
The process to mummify a body took about this long.
What is between 35 and 70 days?
This pharaoh took away priests' authority, wanting the whole empire to worship him instead.
Who was Amenhotep?
The Middle Kingdom was considered this, due to improvements in trade, art, and weaponry.
What was a "Golden Age"?
This type of environment is on both sides of the Nile River?
What is a desert.
True or false: Hieroglyphics is a language of sounds, not letters.
What is true?
He is the god of the afterlife.
Who is Osiris?
These two Englishmen discovered the tomb of King Tut.
Who were Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon?
The New Kingdom ended in this year.
What was 670 BCE?