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This youngest Pharaoh's tomb was discovered in 1922.
Who was King Tut or Tutankhamen?
A large, stone pillar, usually honoring someone important (like George Washington!).
What is an obelisk?
A triangular, land formation, usually at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
Amenhotep and Nefertiti urge Egyptians to worship one god, the Aton.
What is New Kingdom?
Ancient Egypt is divided into 4 kingdoms.
Ancient Egypt is divided into 3 kingdoms:
Old, middle, new
The sun god, to Egyptians.
Who is Re or Amon-Re?
A burial place for the pharaohs.
What is a pyramid?
It made farmland rich.
What is silt?
Egypt is now an Empire, and a middle class of merchants, scribes, and craftworkers are emerging.
What is Middle Kingdom?
Tutankhamun was the first female pharaoh.
Hatshepsut was the first female pharaoh.
They farmed the land.
Who are the peasants?
A system of writing used to record government documents.
What are hieroglyphics?
He (or she) controlled the land and the people.
Who was pharaoh?
The biggest buildings in the world (at that time) were built. A shame they were burial places.
What is the old kingdom?
Egyptians built mastabases before condeminiums.
Egyptians built matabases before pyramids.
Craftworkers, scribes, merchants, and people who worked in Pharaoh's government.
Who were the middle class?
Found in 1798, it had 3 different types of languages written on it, and ultimately helped decipher hieroglyphics.
What was the Rosetta Stone?
It helped Meroe become important trade center. Yeah! Tools and weapons!
What is iron?
Tutankhamen is named Pharaoh to return Egypt to polytheism.
What is the New Kingdom?
The Rosetta Stone was a computer program that helped us read hieroglyphics.
The Rosetta Stone was an actual stone, containing 3 different languages that helped us read hieroglyphics.
She was Pharaoh who helped bring strength and wealth to Egypt.
Who was Hatshepsut?
A paper-like material.
What is papyrus?
Dams and dikes did this.
What is helped control the Nile from flooding?
Preserved bodies called mummies were first placed in the pyramids.
What is the Old Kingdom?
For almost 3,000 years, Egyptians were monotheistic.
For almost 3,000 years, Egyptians were polytheistic.