Geography
The continent where Ancient Egypt was located
What is Africa?
Most people in ancient Egypt had this occupation.
Farmers (Fishermen)
This is how the Ancient Egyptians preserved their dead
What is mummification (Making Mummies)
Mummies were placed in these
What is a tomb or a pyramid
What contribution from ancient Egypt allows us to have twelve months with around thirty days each?
The 365-day Calendar
The ancient Egyptians lived along this river
What is the Nile?
What were the rulers of ancient Egypt called?
Pharaoh
The Nile provided this for the Ancient Egyptians
What is it provided rich soil for growing food; it provided water for growing food; the Egyptians used boats on the Nile to carry food from place to place?
How can you describe the climate of ancient Egypt?
Hot & Dry (Arid)
More than 90% of Egypt consists of (is made of) this GEOGRAPHIC FORMATION.
Desert
Into what large body of water does the Nile River flow?
The Mediterranean Sea
The Nile River provided which TWO important things for the people of ancient Egypt.
It provided rich soil for growing food; it provided water for growing food; the Egyptians used boats on the Nile to carry food from place to place.
The Ancient Egyptian form of writing that consisted of pictures and symbols.
Hieroglyphics
Paper could be made from this PLANT, and was used to make scrolls for recording information.
Papyrus
Ancient Egypt used WATER to make the first of these instruments for telling time.
Clocks
This Geographic Feature is the largest of its kind in the world. It stretches from EAST to WEST across the northern part of the continent of Africa.
The Sahara Desert
What is it called when you have to SUPPLY water to your crops from a river or stream? (HINT: You could use a shaduf)
Irrigation
These huge tombs were built by hand with no machines
What are pyramids?
Describe the PLANT LIFE in ancient Egypt.
Grasses (Papyrus plants) that grew along the Nile River
Unlike most rivers on Earth, the Nile River flows in this direction toward the Mediterranean Sea.
North
This was formed in Lower Egypt, where the Nile River spread out and empties into the Mediterranean Sea (triangle shaped)
The Nile River DELTA
These were people that were trained to read and write
Scribes
What was the hand-operated device for lifting water, invented in ancient Egypt to irrigate land. It had a bucket attached to a pole with weight on the other end.
Shaduf or Shadoof
Ancient Egyptians believed this body part would be weighed to see if they could get into the afterlife
The heart
What is the mythological creature with the body of a lion and the head of a person? It was said to protect a Pharaoh in his journey to the afterlife.
Sphynx