Key Terms
triangular shaped piece of land at the mouth of a river
What is a delta?
Worship of many gods and goddess. Often take on the characteristics of humans and animals.
What is polytheism?
Goods sent out to other regions.
What is an export?
These jars were used to hold the organs of a mummified body.
What are canopic jars?
What is mummification?
What is pharaoh?
Spells from this book would be recited during the process of mummification.
What is The Book of The Dead?
This pharaoh is well known for all of the pyramids built for him.
Who is Khufu?
What is their heart or Ba?
DAILY DOUBLE
This pharaoh is most well known for focusing on trade and expanding Egypt's economy.
Durable, paper-like material made from a reed plant
What is papyrus?
DAILY DOUBLE
This cloth was used as wrapping during mummification.
This desert borders the Egyptian civilization to the west.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Originally thought to have been solely built by slaves, new evidence shows this group played a role in building the pyramids.
What are farmers?
Pharaohs wore this crown, that showed the unification of Egypt.
What is the white and red crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt?
Goods brought in from different regions
What are imports?
He greeted those who had just died at the gate to the next world.
Who is Osiris?
This object help unlock the mystery of hieroglyphs.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
What is natron?
Egyptians were believers in this, a term meaning life after death.
What is the afterlife?
period of Egyptian history when the empire reaches its peak power and wealth
These were the only people to be mummified in the Old Kingdom.
What are pharaohs?
The Greeks considered Egypt to be this.
What is "A Gift of the Nile?"
The Nile River empties into this Sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
After death, this part of a person is still linked to the physical body.
What is the Ka?
This Kushite leader would conquer Egypt and his brother would establish the 25th Egyptian Dynasty.
Who is Piankhi (Piye)?