Geography
Politics/Economics
Religion
Social Classes
Inventions/Arts
100
What natural barrier protects the Egyptian people from invaders on both sides of the Nile River?
desert
100
The Ancient Egyptians followed a _________ religion. They believed in many gods.
polytheistic
100
Which social class did not have any rights?
slaves
200
The Nile flows ________ to _________ and empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
south to north
200
The religious and political leader of Ancient Egypt was called the _______________.
pharaoh
200
The Ancient Egyptians preserved their dead bodies for the afterlife. What was this process called?
mummification
200
Who were the record keepers of Ancient Egypt?
scribes
200
___________ was the writing form of the Ancient Egyptians.
hieroglypics
300
The Egyptians depended on the annual flooding of the Nile River to make the land _________.
rich and fertile
300

In Ancient Egypt, the job you had was decided based on?

what your father/family did

300
What is the term that means "belief in one god?"
monotheistic
300

Which social class made up the majority of the population

farmer

300

These were built as the burial places for the Pharaohs 

pyramids

400

What were 3 barriers that protected Egypt?

desert, Mediterranean Sea, and the Red Sea, cataracts

400
______ is a sequence of rulers from the same family. This is how Egypt was ruled for 3,000 years.
dynasty
400

Why would one be buried with objects?

As they can take these objects with them into the afterlife

400

2 ways in which someone would become a slave?

Criminal, Debt, Prisoner of War

400

Invention that functioned as the Egyptian version of paper

papyrus

500
How were the early Egyptian and Sumerian civilizations similar in terms of where they settled?
near fresh water and fertile soil
500

Artisans were employed by this, which is how they made much of their money.

Government/temples

500
When mummifying a body what organ do you leave inside the body?
the heart
500
The adviser to the pharaoh near the top of the social pyramid was called ____________.
the vizier
500
Canals were dug along the Nile River so that crops could receive water. This process is called ______________.
irrigation
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