Geography
The continent where Ancient Egypt was located
What is Africa?
Worshipping multiple gods.
What is polytheism?
The Ancient Egyptian form of writing.
What are Hieroglyphics?
A person is a ruler or leader of ancient Egypt.
What is a pharaoh?
A person who does manual work for the wealthy, who is NOT a slave, but often treated as such.
What is a peasant?
The ancient Egyptians lived along this river and it's considered the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile?
Ancient Egyptians preserved their dead using mummification for the hope that the body and spirit would go here.
What is the Afterlife?
These were built by hand, with no machines, by slaves, and with the use of mathematics and astronomy.
What are the pyramids?
This pharaoh became king at age 9 and when archeologists found his tomb it was fully intact with all of his treasures.
Who was King Tut?
Born from a pharaoh's blood/family line or wealthy landowner.
What is a noble?
A large statue that has the body of a lion and the head of a human.
What is Sphinx?
This pharaoh was not well liked because he pushed monotheism for all.
Who was Akhenaten?
A material prepared from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets for writing or painting on; used as what we now this as paper.
What is papyrus?
This pharaoh pushed taxes for all citizens and this may explain why he was known for having over 100 wives. as people paid with slaves or children.
Who was King Ramses the Great?
A family or group that rules a nation for several generations. The leadership stays within the family blood-line.
What is a dynasty?
Fertile soil from the Nile river used for farming.
What is silt?
Egyptian Sun God
Who is Ra?
Egyptians put this on their faces in order to to keep bugs away.
What is makeup?
She was ancient Egypt's LAST known pharaoh before the civilization fell to Rome.
Who was Cleopatra?
Egyptians didn't have coin money so they used harvest, property, or children as this...
What payments for taxes?
A triangular mouth of a river, where sediments are deposited into the river beds and empty into a large body of water.
What is a delta?
The god of the dead was Anubis who had the head of a _______
What is a Jackel, aardvark, or fox?
The oldest competitive sport that ancient Egyptians invented and that is still happening.
What is wrestling?
This pharaoh, the 5th in the 18th Dynasty, was not only the greatest woman Pharaoh of ancient Egypt, but many historians call her the greatest Pharaoh ever.
Who was Hatshepsut?
The period of time someone rules, usually royalty but is pronounced like the moisture that comes from a storm cloud.
What is reign?