Geography of Ancient Egypt
This is known as the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile river
This ancient Egyptian god was ruler of the underworld.
Who is Osiris
Used as burial sites for pharaohs, these structures were so impressive, people believe aliens built them.
What are pyramids
A small river that flows into a larger river.
What is a tributary
Southern part of Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt
What are Upper and Lower Egypt
The ruler of an ancient Egyptian civilization. Believed to be a living god sent to earth who communicated with other gods on their behalf.
What is a pharaoh
Symbols used to communicate sounds, words, and ideas in ancient Egypt.
What are hieroglyphics
Large stone slab that was used to decode hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone
Northern part of Egypt.
What is Lower Egypt
________ protected the Egyptians and made it harder for rival civilizations to invade their land.
What are natural barriers
Procedure that included several steps such as removing the body’s organs, drying it out with salt, wrapping it, and burying it in a coffin called a sarcophagus.
What is mummification
Historians could not translate ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics until the discovery of this in 1799.
What is the Rosetta Stone
Body preserved in a way to prevent it from decomposing.
What is a mummy
These 2 rivers are tributaries of the Nile river.
What is the Blue and White Nile
Desert land known as Deshret or _________ was avoided because there was no water source.
What is the Red Land
Process of placing the heart on scale to be weighed against a feather. If the heart is light, you pass into the afterlife. If the heart is heavy, your soul will be eaten.
What is the weighing of the heart
Made from the reeds of plants along the Nile river, this material made it easier to write.
What is papyrus
Fan-shaped region created when soil is deposited at the end of a river.
What is a Delta
Statue of a mythical creature with the head of a king and the body of a lion.
What is the Great Sphinx
This serves as the unofficial boundary between Egypt and Nubia.
What is the first cataract
Concept which was the idea of a cosmic harmony and balance that existed on Earth and across the universe.
What is ma'at
Egyptians used this form of measurement when constructing the pyramids. Measuring from their elbow to their fingers.
What is cubit
Section of the Nile River with rapids and rocky terrain.
What is a cataract
Method of measuring years based on the time it takes for Earth to complete one orbit around the Sun, which is about 365 days.
What is the Solar Calendar