GEOGRAPHY
The direction the Nile flows
What is North?
An Egyptian king
What is a pharaoh?
Farming tool with a pole & bucket to make irrigation easier
What is a shaduf?
This period was also known as the Age of the Pyramids
What is the Old Kingdom?
People belonged to social classes and each class was ranked
What is hierarchy?
Rock formations that create churning rapids in the Nile
What is cataracts?
A series of rulers from the same family
What is a dynasty?
Cameras using rays of light to pinpoint buried items
What is satellite imagery?
Approximate # of years of the Age of the Pyramids
What is 500?
2700 BC to 2200 BC
Beneath the pharaoh and viziers, this group came next
What is Priests and Nobles?
This formed well-protected borders
What is the Sahara Desert?
This crop was grown to make cloth (linen)
What is flax?
First-ever intact royal tomb
What is King Tut's?
The Great Pyramid was made for this king
What is Khufu?
The most important god
What is Re (Ra)?
The narrow stretch that ran along both sides of the Nile
What is "black land"?
DAILY DOUBLE
The color of the crown for Lower Egypt
What is white?
piece of jewelry in mummy to protect the dead
What is an amulet?
The bottom layer of the step pyramid
What is mastaba?
Anubis weighed each person's heart against this
What is an ostrich's feather?
The Nile's length in miles
What is 4,132?
Name of the king who united Upper and Lower Egypt
What is Menes?
Year King Tut's tomb was discovered
What is 1922?
The Great Sphinx had this ruler's head
What is Khafre?
This manual helped the dead reach the afterlife
What is the Book of the Dead?