Geography
Longest River in the World!!
What is the Nile River?
The god of the Sun.
Who is Ra?
Egyptians believed in many gods, also known to be ___________.
What is Polytheistic?
This job was important and took 5 years to be educated for the job because of the difficulty level. They were protectors of Egyptian culture and central to academic research.
Who were the scribes?
The three distinct time periods of Ancient Egypt?
What is the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and the New Kingdom?
The largest desert in the world and located in Northern Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
The god of the underworld.
Who is Osiris?
Egyptian's built special tombs for their pharaoh's for their spirit(ka) to reside and govern. This made Egypt unique. These tombs were known as __________.
What are pyramids?
Usually were members of the royal family and lived in the palace..2nd on the social pyramid.
Who were the government officials?
The pharaoh who was monotheistic, married to Nefertiti and whose kingdom was destroyed not long after his reign.
Who is Akenaten?
Egypt, Mesopotamians, China and India were all considered _________________civilizations because of the rich soil provided allowing growth of crops.
What is a River Valley Civilizations?
The national god after the pharaohs moved their capital to the city of Thebes
Who is Amun?
Internal organs were placed in four different...
What is canopic jars?
The largest class of Egyptians on the social pyramid.
Who were the peasants/slaves?
This was a very important resource that grew around the Nile River and was used to make many (paper, roofs, mats, baskets, etc.) products for Egyptian civilization.
What is papyrus?
The direction that the Nile River flows.
What is south too north?
The god that was a sun god and the king of the gods
Who is Horus?
A process that was meant to preserve the body for the afterlife.
What is the mummification?
The Pharaoh's right-hand man.
Who is the vizier?
Most powerful ruler during the New Kingdom era.
Who is Ramses II?
Rocky rapids along the Nile.
What is a cataract?
The god that was combined with the sun god and was known as the creator and giver of life.
Who is Amun-Ra.
The organ that was thrown away because it was thought to be useless and was taken out by a hook through the nose.
What is the brain?
This group of people were very important to the culture but not wealthy or poor but lived a 'comfortable' lifestyle.
Who were the craftsmen/artisans and merchants?
This queen ruled during the Golden Age of Egypt and encouraged trade.
Who is Hatshepsut?