People
She was the first woman ruler in Egypt.
Who was Hatshepsut?
To protect from evil, Egyptians wrote hieroglyphs of a name inside one of these.
What is a cartouche?
What are hieroglyphics?
These two things protected Egypt from invaders.
What are the Nile cataracts and the Sahara desert?
The Egyptian's learned about tools and chariots from this people group.
Who are the Hyksos?
He discovered King Tut's tomb.
Who was Howard Carter?
This embalmer god was pictured with a jackal head.
Who was Anubis?
Plant used to make paper in Egypt.
What is papyrus?
The reason the Nile flows from the south to the north.
Why does the south have a higher elevation that the north?
The Assyrians were successful in conquering this people group because they had iron weapons.
Who are the Kushites?
He built the Great Pyramid at Giza.
Who was Khufu?
This was the type of religion Egypt believed in.
What is polytheism?
Line of kings or rulers who belong to the same family.
What is a dynasty?
The plain around the Nile delta in the north is called this.
What is Lower Egypt?
The Kushites adopted the culture and worship practice from these conquerors.
Who are the Egyptians?
He changed his name from Amenhotep IV to show he worshiped one god, Aton.
Who was Akentaton?
The Egyptians believed that, after death, they would be judged according to this.
What are their works?
Special containers used to hold the organs of a dead body.
What are canopic jars?
This caused the formation of Lake Nasser.
What is the Aswan High Dam?
Egypt sits on this continent.
What is Africa?
The book states this pharaoh was the greatest Egyptian warrior king.
Who was Thutmose III?
Egyptian's mummified their dead for this reason.
A stone coffin used to hold a mummy.
What is a sarcophagus?
The nation Egypt conquered to the south.
What is Kush?
Egypt is surrounded by these two "seas"
What are the Mediterranean and the Red?