Geography
What river did the Egyptians settle next to?
Nile River
The "Boy King"
King Tut
Egyptian form of paper
papyrus
The sun god
Ra
What did Menes wear to signify a unified Egypt?
Double crown
What was northern Egypt called?
Lower Egypt
First female pharaoh that built obelisks and a massive temple.
Hatshepsut
Huge structure that has the head of a pharaoh and the body of a lion
sphinx
Substance used to dry out the body during mummification
natron
What pharaoh lost Egypt to the Roman Empire?
Cleopatra
What was southern Egypt called?
Upper Egypt
Built more than any other Pharaoh and had a reign of 66 years.
Ramses II
Location of the great pyramid and the sphinx
Giza
Material used to wrap the body in mummification
linen
What was the Rosetta Stone and how did it help us decipher Hieroglyphics?
Stone found with 3 languages on it, we could read Greek which allowed us to translate other languages
What was the most fertile part of Egypt where the majority of people lived?
Delta
Professional writer that recorded in hieroglyphics
Scribe
A stone coffin used for pharaohs
sarcophagus
The god of the afterlife
Osiris
These made travel on the Nile River very difficult
Cataracts
Identify the natural barriers to the north, south, east, and west of Egypt.
Mountains to the south, Mediterranean to the north, desert to the east and west
The pharaoh that united upper and lower Egypt for the first time.
Menes
Where did most pharaohs get buried after they stopped building pyramids as tombs?
Valley of the Kings
What organ was left in the body? Why?
The heart so it could be used for the weighing of the heart ceremony
What change did Akhenaten put in place?
Changed Egypt from polytheistic to monotheistic