Geography
This natural barrier protects the Egyptian people from invaders on both sides of the Nile River.
What is a desert?
The ________ and _______ make the decisions for Egypt and it's people.
What are the pharaohs and priests?
________ social class did not have any rights.
What are slaves?
An irrigation tool to lift water from a water source onto land.
What is a Shadoof?
The Nile flows ________ to _________ and empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is south to north?
The Ancient Egyptians preserved their dead bodies for the afterlife.
What is mummification?
The record keepers of ancient Egypt.
What are scribes?
___________ was the writing form of the Ancient Egyptians.
What is hieroglyphics?
The Egyptians depended on the annual flooding of the Nile River to make the land _________.
What is rich and fertile?
In Ancient Egypt, the job you had was decided based on?
what your father/family did
Belief in one god
What is monotheistic?
This social class made up majority of the egyptian population.
What are farmers?
These were built as the burial places for the Pharaohs
What are pyramids?
Barriers that protect Egypt.
What are deserts and cataracts?
Pharaohs were buried with personal belongings/objects so they could _________.
What is take the items into the afterlife?
Name 2 ways a person in Egypt could become a slave.
What is commit a crime, be in debt, and you are a prisoner of war?
Invention that functioned as the Egyptian version of paper
What is papyrus?
Egyptian and Sumerian civilizations similar in terms because of they were near ________ and ________.
What is fresh water and fertile soil?
Artisans were employed by this, which is how they made much of their money.
Government/temples
The _____ is left in the body during mummification.
What is the heart?
The adviser to the pharaoh near the top of the social pyramid was called ____________.
the vizier
Canals were dug along the Nile River so that crops could receive water. This process is called ______________.
What is irrigation?