Rulers
This word originally meant "great house."
What is pharaoh?
Egyptians believed the pharaoh was the son of this sun god.
Who is Re?
This was the number of months in the Egyptian calendar.
What is 12?
The capital city was moved to this place during the Middle Kingdom.
What is Thebes?
What was the New Kingdom?
A government in which the same person is both the political leader and the religious leader.
What is a theocracy?
The pharaoh would ride around Memphis on this type of animal as part of a religious ceremony meant to keep the soil fertile.
What is a bull?
About five million people lived in ancient Egypt at its peak which is about equal to the population of this state.
What is Colorado?
The pharaohs ordered the construction of a canal between the Nile River and this Sea to help increase trade.
What is the Red Sea?
The Egyptians traded things like wheat, paper, gold and tools for purple dye, wood and furniture from this group of people from present-day Lebanon.
Who were the Phoenicians?
Government officials who would carry out the pharaoh's orders.
What is a bureaucrat?
The river god.
Who is hapi?
Craft-makers, who were important members of the middle class, were called these.
What were artisans?
What is the Valley of the Kings?
Amenhotep, who later became Akhenaton, tried to make Egyptians worship only this one god, the sun god.
Who is Aton?
This woman ruler was very successful and her people were very loyal to her.
Who was Hatshepsut?
One of the most important writings of ancient Egypt that had prayers to help people prepare for the afterlife.
What was The Book of the Dead?
The pyramids were mainly built by these unskilled workers who were trying to earn their freedom.
Who were enslaved people?
Powerful warriors from western Asia who took control of Egypt for 100 years.
Who were the Hyksos?
These were used as banks, workshops, and granaries.
What were temples?
The Great Pyramid, the largest pyramid, was built for this king.
Who is King Khufu?
The process that Egyptians used to protect bodies for the afterlife.
Lower class families often socialized, played games, and slept here.
What are the flat rooftops of their houses?
The Egyptian prince that formed an army and drove the warriors out of Egypt around 1500 B.C.
Who was Ahmose?
Egypt declined after this pharaoh died.
Who was Ramses II?