Ancient Egypt 1
The continent where Ancient Egypt was located
What is Africa?
This word means a long, long time ago
What is ancient?
Egyptian gods or goddesses were often pictured with human bodies and the heads of _______
What are animals?
Mummies were placed in these
What is a tomb?
Why did Egyptians willingly serve their all-powerful leader?
They believed in unity.
The ancient Egyptians lived along this river
What is the Nile?
This word means king
What is 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?
True or False: All ancient Egyptians knew how to read and write
What is False?
This word is what happens when there was too much water for the Nile to hold
What is flood?
A large statue that has the body of a lion and the head of a human.
What is Sphinx?
True of False: The Nile floods every year
What is True?
The Ancient Egyptian form of writing
What are Hieroglyphics?
Ancient Egyptians believed this body part would be weighed to see if they could get into paradise
What is the heart?
What is irrigation?
This is a female pharaoh
Who is Hatshepsut?
1st Egyptian Pharaoh
Who is Narmer or Menes?
These huge tombs were built by hand with no machines
What are pyramids?
Egyptians buried spells and instructions from this book with their dead
Book of the Dead
Mummification, the pyramids (tombs), and the Book of the Dead all show the importance of the ancient Egyptians' belief in the _______.
What is afterlife?
Egyptian civilization was the first to publish book in the field of _________.
What is medicine.
This was made out of papyrus and sometimes made into scrolls
What is paper?
This is how the Ancient Egyptians preserved their dead
What is mummification?
What type of government did Egypt have after 3100 B.C.?
What is a dynasty.
The Egyptians worshipped many gods. The term for that is _____.
What is polytheistic?