Geography
An area of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
A large stone coffin.
What is a sarcophagus?
What is 1922? What is 100 years ago?
Fine particles of rock.
What is silt?
What is annual or yearly?
The continent that Egypt is located in.
What is Africa?
These modern day house pets were worshiped as divine by Ancient Egyptians.
What are cats.
The empire (or civilization) that Ramses II went to war against.
Who were the Hittites?
A person who writes.
What is a scribe?
The northern part of Egypt.
What is Lower Egypt?
Best description of where Egyptians settled.
What is a river valley?
The reason pharaohs were buried with their possessions.
What is "they believed they could bring their possessions with them"?
This pharaoh encouraged trade.
Who is Hatshepsut?
Someone who is able to live forever.
What is an immortal?
The southern part of Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt?
Egypt was protected from invasion by these.
What are deserts?
Pharaohs were not only human beings but they were believed to be these as well.
What are gods?
Rameses II ruled during this period.
What is the New Kingdom?
An expert who studies the past by examining objects that people have left behind.
What is an archeologist?
Capital of modern day Egypt.
What is Cairo?
The direction that the Nile flows.
What is "South to North"?
The process of preserving bodies for the afterlife.
The nickname of the Old Kingdom.
What is the Age of Pyramids?
The water, topography (shape of the land), and vegetation (plant life) of an area or region.
What are environmental factors?
A tough, water plant that was used to make paper.
What is papyrus?