Ancient Egypt
The Blue Nile and the White Nile
What are the sources of the Nile River?
site of the pyramids
What is Giza?
Royal tombs
What are pyramids?
Rock-filled rapids
What are cataracts?
Someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule.
Who is a regent?
Direction the Nile River flows
What is north?
The Egyptian name for "black land"
What is Kemet?
This king united Upper and Lower Egypt
Who was Menes?
These ancient Egyptians studied the stars and planets.
What were astronomers?
This military leader conquered many lands.
Who was Thutmose III?
This powerful pharaoh was a woman.
Who was Hatshepsut?
Astronomers studied the stars in order to predict this.
What was the flooding of the Nile?
This Egyptian leader had absolute power.
Who was the Pharaoh?
This stone helped decipher hieroglyphics.
What was the Rosetta Stone?
These ancient scientists predicted the Nile's flood each year.
Who were astronomers?
These massive buildings ensured the pharaohs had a place in the afterlife.
What were the pyramids?
These were the social rankings of Egyptian society from most to least powerful.
What were: pharaohs, nobles, merchants, peasants?
The spirits of the dead were believed to roam at night here.
Where was the west bank of the Nile?
This material made from reeds was used as paper by Egyptian scribes.
What was papyrus?
We learned much about everyday life in Egypt from these
What were paintings on the walls of tombs and temples?
This happened as soon as the Nile floods receded and the land was clear.
When were the fields planted?
This Frenchman figured out how to read hieroglyphics using the Rosetta Stone.
Who was Jean Frances Champollion?
This woman was the last Egyptian pharaoh.
Who was Cleopatra?
This archaeologist discovered King Tut's Tomb.
Who was Howard Carter?
By weighing the heart, priest could decide this.
Was the person good or evil?