This was how the Nile river helped the ancient Egyptians to thrive.
What is provided water for animals, humans, agriculture, had fertile soil, transportation, and food?
This is the name of the brother who killed his brother and threw his body parts around the world.
Who is Set?
This was about the amount of time it took for the Egyptians to build a pyramid.
What is approximately 20-30 years?
This ruler is best known for the discovery of his tomb.
Who is Tutankhamen?
This is a word that means someone who purchases, or buys, goods or services.
What is consumer?
In ancient Egyptian society, this was the lowest socio-economic position.
What is the enslaved class?
This is the direction the Nile river flows.
What is south to North?
This was the ritual done to ensure a body would be suitable for its Ka in the afterlife.
What is embalming or mummification?
What is hieroglyphics?
This is the type of government of ancient Egypt.
What is a theocracy?
The Egyptian economy was mainly built on this.
What is agriculture?
Artisans and scribes belonged to this social class.
What is the middle class?
These were the four geographical defenses of ancient Egypt's civilization.
What are the Western Desert, the Eastern Desert, the cataracts, and the Nile delta.
This is the ritual pharaoh had to do to ensure Egypt's agriculture thrived.
What is ride on a bull through Memphis?
This is the Egyptian goddess/god with a cat's head who sometimes appeared as a cat.
Who is Bastet?
This pharaoh is responsible for sending a successful political and trade expedition to the land of Punt.
What is wheat and other crops?
In ancient Egypt, these religious figures held more influence and authority than scribes.
Who were priests?
This was the location of the cataracts along the Nile.
What is southern or Upper Egypt?
Who is Anubis?
Egyptians used this to get water from the Nile when the level was low.
What is a shadoof?
He built the great temple of Abu Simbel.
Who is Ramses II?
This is the material the ancient Egyptians traded with the Phoenicians for.
What is wood?
This word means that the father, or men in general, were the heads of the family and the leaders of Egyptian civilization.
What is patriarchy?
In stark contrast to the often unpredictable overflows of Mesopotamia's Tigris and Euphrates, this annual event on the Nile was so reliable that it became the cornerstone of ancient Egyptian agriculture.
What is the predictable flooding of the Nile?
This is the type of religion that Akhenaten changed Egypt to when he became pharaoh - a belief in one god or goddess.
What is monotheism?
This was one of the pieces of medical knowledge the Egyptians learned through the process of mummification.
What is treating illnesses, surgery, setting broken bones, understanding human anatomy?
These are the officials who were appointed to their government positions by the pharaoh.
Who are the beureaucrats?
These monumental tombs were constructed largely by farmers turned laborers who received food and other necessities as payment, highlighting the command (forced) economy of ancient Egypt.
What are the pyramids?
In ancient Egypt, serving the pharaoh, marrying into a higher-status family, or earning higher standing on one’s own were some of the ways this could be achieved.
What is rising out of poverty or changing social status?
This is the length of the Nile river.
What is 4,000 miles?
Who is the river god, Hapi?
This is the 5 step process of creating papyrus paper.
What is cutting the stalk into strips, soaking the strips in water, layering the strips, pressing the page, setting it out to dry?
These conquerers of Egypt were eventually overthrown when the Egyptians used their own methods of warfare against them.
Who are the Hyksos?
These were the items traded from the Egyptians to other civilizations.
What are beads, metal tools, gold, wheat, paper, and weapons?
This is the approximate amount of people in ancient Egypt's civilization at its height.