Geography and Climate
Africa
What was a pharaoh?
Leader of Egypt
Why would ancient Egyptians want to be close to the Nile?
What did the ancient Egyptians invent from papyrus?
A type of paper/ what they wrote on
What did the ancient Egyptians use the pyramids for?
Burying pharaohs and mummies,
to honor dead Pharaohs and important figures,
to store objects they thought mummies would need in the afterlife
What was the climate of ancient Egypt?
Desert
How did the pharaoh get to be pharaoh?
It was inherited
After the Greeks took over, what did the ancient Egyptians start to write and speak?
Greek
What architecture were the ancient Egyptians known for?
Pyramids
What are some ways that historians learned about ancient Egypt?
Hieroglyphic writing
Objects buried with mummies
Descriptions written by people who were there
Monuments to Egyptian Pharaohs
What kind of systems did the ancient Egyptians use to control where the Nile River flowed?
Irrigation systems
How did the ancient Egyptians view the pharaoh?
As a god
This was found in 1799.
Rosetta Stone
True or False:
The ancient Egyptian writing system was sometimes read left to right and sometimes right to left.
True
In what direction did the Nile flow?
Along what body of water was ancient Egypt developed?
The Nile River
What things did the pharaoh have power over?
Religion, government, military
When did the ancient Egyptians first start using hieroglyphs/ written language?
The flooding of the Nile River helped the ancient Egyptians develop what important contribution?
365 day calendar
Who united Upper and Lower Egypt in 3100 BC?
King Menes
What natural event helped the soil be rich enough for the ancient Egyptians to farm?
The flooding of the Nile
Hatshepsut
How did the ancient Egyptians use the Nile?
Farmed next to it, traded on it, food came from it
What pyramid was built in 2500 BC?
What was the key to historians finally being able to understand hieroglyphics?
The Rosetta Stone