Stable Food
What is the Nile river?
The Ancient Egyptian form of writing
What are Hieroglyphics?
Pharaohs wanted these built as a symbol of power and a place of protection for their bodies when they died.
What are pyramids?
These people were the majority in ancient Egypt and supported many others, yet they were on the bottom of the social pyramid with slaves.
Who are the farmers?
The pharaoh whose tomb was discovered with a huge entrance filled with luxury items and gold, then said to have caused a curse
Who is King Tut?
Upper Egypt is located in which direction on a map of Egypt?
What is the South/ southern Egypt?
Egyptian Sun God
Who is Ra?
This was made out of papyrus and sometimes made into scrolls
What is paper?
Where is the desert/ Red Land?
This was the Pharaoh's main advisor.
Who is the Vizier
This habitat protected Egypt from invaders in the west.
What is the western desert?
This is the name for the process of making a mummy, using the perfumes and bandages. Hint: it is a vocabulary word.
What is embalming?
This type of art was popular in ancient Egypt and often used metal, stone, or clay to form shapes of people and gods
What is a sculpture?
The reason so many people were willing to put the Pharaoh at the top of the social pyramid
What is: they had favor with the pharaoh, then they had a better chance of making it to the afterlife?
Pharaoh who defeated the Hittites & negotiated the 1st peace treaty
Ramses the Great (II)
The cataracts along the Nile are most like
rapids
The purpose of mummification
What is...to preserve a body so the soul can recognize it to use it in the afterlife?
Where the Egyptians buried their pharaohs during the New Kingdom
Where is the Valley of the Kings?
People designated to be recordkeepers and writers, in the middle of the social pyarmid
Who were scribes?
Female Pharaoh who ruled over a time of peace and prosperity with an expansion of trade
Who is Hatshepsut?
This yearly event brought more water to the fields of farmers so they could plant and harvest more crops.
What is the Nile flooding?
What is Judgement of the Dead?
A large statue that has the body of a lion and the head of a human.
What is Sphinx?
Pharaohs trusted these people who helped treat soldiers' injuries and research medicines for diseases
Who are physicians?
A system with a hierarchy of authority, people coordinating with each other but they each have individual roles and jobs
What is a bureaucracy?