The Nile River
About how long is the Nile River?
4000 miles
What is a bucket attached to a long pole that lifts water from the Nile and empties it into basins called?
Shadoof
By 4000 BCE, Egypt was made up of how many kingdoms?
2
Who is the Egyptian sun god?
Re
Where in the pyramid was the king's mummified body placed?
King's Burial Chamber
The Nile is two separate rivers. What are the two separate rivers called?
Blue Nile and the White Nile
What is the name of the reed plant that grew along the Nile?
papyrus
What were the names of the two kindgoms?
Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt
Who did they belive was a God on Earth?
The pharaoh
What part of the pyramid held a statue of the king?
The Queen's Burial Chamber
What are the steep cliffs and large boulders that make the Nile River fast-moving and dangerous called?
Cataracts
What are Egyptian rulers or kings called?
pharaohs
Who was the king of Upper Egypt around 3100 BCE?
Narmer
What book did Egyptians believe prepared them for the afterlife?
The Book of the Dead
Priests and nobles
What is the fan-shaped area of fertile marshland land called?
The Delta
What is a line of rulers from one family?
dynasty
What did Narmer unify?
The two kingdoms.
Who did they believe greeted those who had just died at the gates to the next world?
Osiris
Who were the lowest but largest group in Egyptian society?
farmers and unskilled workers or peasants and servants
After the Nile overflowed from periods of heavy rains and flooding what remained that helped the farmers?
thick deposits of fertile soil
Egyptian writing system of pictures and sound symbols?
hierogylphics
What was the name of Egypt's new capital after Narmer unified the kingdoms?
Memphis
What is the name of the process that prepared the body for the afterlife?
Embalming
Who was the first great engineer who built a pyramid?
Imhotep