Communication
A system of picture-like symbols used for writing.
What are hieroglyphics?
The Nile River left this material behind, which helped soil fertility.
What is silt?
This is the title of the ruler of Egypt.
Who is Pharaoh?
This is what Ancient Egyptians did to preserve bodies for the afterlife.
What is mummification?
The material Egyptians used to make an early form of paper.
What is papyrus?
The Egyptians grew these crops.
What are wheat and barley?
This group of people were at the bottom of the social class pyramid.
Who are servants?
The Egyptians believed in these people to help guide them in afterlife.
Who are gods/goddesses?
The specially shaped frames that surrounded a pharaoh’s name.
What is a cartouche?
Egypt was surrounded by this desert.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This group of people worked near the Nile River and kept the Egyptians fed, but were low on the social class pyramid.
Who are farmers?
This was the sun god.
Who is Ra?
The people who wrote and copied information using hieroglyphics.
Who are scribes?
The Nile provided this for the Egyptians.
What is water, food, transportation, fertile soil, and trade?
This group of people were right below the pharoah on the social class pyramid.
Who are government officials? or, Who are priests?
This was the god of mummification.
Who is Anubis?
Scribes carved hieroglyphics onto these buildings.
What are temples and palaces?
This type of natural disaster helped the soil around the Nile become fertile.
What is a flood?
This group of people bought, sold, traded, and created goods.
Who are merchants and artisans?
This goddess was believed to have married her brother :/
Who is Isis?