Geography
A natural barrier that protects the Egyptian people from invaders on both sides of the Nile River
What is a desert?
This pharaoh's tomb was never discovered and taught us a lot about Ancient Egypt.
Who is King Tut (Tutankhamen)?
The Ancient Egyptians believed in many gods. This is called ______________.
What is polytheistic?
The Egyptians made paper out of this plant.
What is papyrus?
The pyramids were built for this purpose.
What is to bury the pharaoh in?
The Nile flows ________ to _________ and empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is south to north?
The pharaoh was given complete control because he was considered to be this on earth.
What is a god?
The name of the dead bodies the Ancient Egyptians preserved for the afterlife.
What was mummification?
_______ was the name of the Egyptian writing.
What is hieroglyphics?
The Egyptians believed in this when you died.
What is the afterlife?
The Nile River is known for being this.
What is the longest river in the world?
Who is Khufu?
The name of the god of the underworld, husband to Isis.
Who is Osiris?
Nubia's greatest trade export.
What is gold?
The city on the Nile River where the pyramids are built.
What is Giza?
The area at the mouth of a river with rich deposits of silt.
What is a delta?
______ is a sequence of rulers from the same family. This is how Egypt was ruled for 3,000 years.
What is a dynasty?
The organs were placed in these to help preserve them for eternity.
What are canopic jars?
What are cataracts?
This statue was built to try and protect the pyramids. It has the head of a pharaoh and the body of a lion.
What is the sphinx?
A capital resource the Egyptians invented to raise water from the Nile River to the irrigation canals.
What is a shadoof?
This pharaoh built many statues and monuments and signed the first peace treaty in history.
Who is Ramses II?
This organ was left inside the body during mummification until it was eventually replaced with a stone beetle.
What was the heart?
This discovery helped archaeologists learn to read ancient Egyptian writing.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Since pyramids did not work to protect the bodies, pharaohs during the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom were buried here.
What is underground (Valley of the Kings)?