Ancient Egypt 1
The continent where Ancient Egypt was located
What is Africa?
This word means a long, long time ago
What is ancient?
Name one of the Gods of Ancient Egypt
Who are Ra, Aton, Amon-Ra, Hapi?
Mummies were placed in these
What is a tomb?
This is the habitat of Egypt
What is desert?
The ancient Egyptians lived along this river
What is the Nile?
This word means king
What is Pharaoh?
The Nile provided this for the Ancient Egyptians
What is it provided rich soil for growing food; it provided water for growing food; the Egyptians used boats on the Nile to carry food from place to place?
True or False: All ancient Egyptians knew how to read and write
What is False?
This word is what happens when there was too much water for the Nile to hold
What is flood?
A large statue that has the body of a lion and the head of a human.
What is Sphinx?
True of False: The Nile floods every year
What is True?
The Ancient Egyptian form of writing
What are Hieroglyphics?
What was the capital of the New Kingdom?
What is Thebes?
Name one difference between the Old and Middle Kingdom.
Ex: Buried dead in pyramids and tombs, buried the dead in cliffs
This is a female pharaoh
Who is Hatshepsut?
Egyptian Sun God
Who is Ra?
These were built by hand with no machines
What are pyramids?
Name one contribution from Ancient Egypt to our world today.
paper, writing, medicine, solar calendar, arithmetic, cubits, etc.
What did Egyptians know about medicine?
How to set a broken bone, how to deal with fevers, how to check for a heartbeat, high body temperatures, etc.
What artwork did Egyptian artists produce?
Carved huge statues from stone, obelisks, made figures of people, pottery, jewelry, furniture, decorated temples with drawings
This was made out of papyrus and sometimes made into scrolls
What is paper?
This is how the Ancient Egyptians preserved their dead
What is mummification?
What god-king unified Upper and Lower Egypt to begin the Old Kingdom?
Menes
What are 3 benefits for civilizations settling near a river valley?
fertile soil, access to water routes for trade, access to a water supply, resources such as fish