Government/Belief Systems
Large Egyptian structures, said to be burial tombs for Pharaohs.
What are Pyramids?
Early Egyptians were paid by beer, bread, and this.
What are onions?
Considered the gift of the Nile.
What is Egypt?
This simple machine helped the ancient Egyptians lift water from the Nile.
What is the shadoof (shaduf)?
The ancient Egyptian sun god.
Who is Ra?
The one organ that was not removed from the ancient Egyptian dead.
What is the heart?
Ancient Egyptians bartered with their crops, because this had not yet been invented.
What is money?
Flows north into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile river.
This simple device helped ancient pyramid builders know a stone's side was vertical.
What is the F-frame or F-frame level?
The ancient Egyptian process known for preserving the body after death.
What is mummification?
Egyptian pharaoh said to have had over 90 children.
Who was Ramses II?
This precious metal was plentiful in the ancient Egyptian region.
What is gold.
Large body of water north of Egypt.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Used to make things like ancient Egyptian sandals, dolls, and paper.
What is papyrus?
Mark Antony's pharaoh wife.
Who is Cleopatra?
The belief in or worship of more than one god.
What is polytheism?
Payments made in the form of labor or grain (which was stored by the pharaoh in large warehouses).
What are taxes?
Useful plant that grows on the banks of the Nile.
What is papyrus?
Ancient Egyptians dug these to irrigate their crops.
What are canals?
Surprisingly, so far, over 130 of these have been found in Egypt.
What are pyramids?
This god is known as the god who weighs the heart by the feather of truth on a scale.
Who is Anubis?
This female pharaoh expanded trade for ancient Egypt.
Who is Hatshepsut?
Large body of water east of Egypt.
What is The Red Sea?
This ancient tool helped farmers turn Egyptian soil, with a little help from oxen.
What is a plow?
This word actually comes from a Greek word. It means “sacred carving”.
What is hieroglyphs or hieroglyph?