Society
Slaves and peasants were buried here.
What is the desert?
This is why the body is covered in salt.
To draw out moisture that will cause rotting.
This is the simplified version of hieroglyphics.
What is hieratic script?
This is how modern historians believe King Tut most likely died.
What is an infection?
This is the natural resource that the Egyptians used to make a paper-like substance (must be specific).
What is papyrus reed?
These people lived comfortably in villages.
What are merchants and craftspeople?
This is how long the mummification process takes.
What is 70 days?
This is the type of government where decisions are made by officials who were NOT elected by the public.
What is a bureaucracy?
This was the first woman Pharaoh.
Who is Hatepshut?
This was the land that was seized by the Egyptians during the Middle Kingdom.
This occupation involved working with the Pharaoh and overseeing government activity.
What is a vizier?
This was a piece of jewelry placed over the body in order to ward off evil.
What is an amulet?
This is how the Rosetta Stone helped historians learn hieroglyphics.
They found a stone in the Nile River that had three translated languages on it, including hieroglyphics. They were able to learn hieroglyphics because they knew the other two languages.
This Pharaoh was extremely powerful and married to Nefertiti.
Who is Ramses II?
This was the capital city during the Old Kingdom.
What is Memphis?
Most of Egypt's population were this occupation.
What are farmers?
This was how the brains were removed during the mummification process.
Hooks were put up the nostrils to remove the brain out.
This is the name of the geographical feature that allowed Egypt to have an advantage prohibiting them from easily being attacked.
What are cataracts?
This Pharaoh is most known for expanding the Egyptian empire westward.
________ Egypt was the land that was near the Nile Delta that spilled out into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Lower Egypt?
Name two different types of artisanal work done in Ancient Egypt.
Art, basket weaving, pottery, jewelry making, sculptures
List all of the organs that were removed during the mummification process.
What are liver, lungs, intestines, stomach and brain?
The first DYNASTY started under this ruler.
Who is Menes?
This ruler only worshipped the sun god and closed all other temples and shrines.
Who is Akhenaten?
This is how many different symbols there are in Ancient Hieroglyphics.
What are 800?