Geography
The continent where Ancient Egypt was located
Africa
Canals, reservoirs and shadufs are all forms of this.
What is irrigation?
This word is used for the rulers of ancient Egypt.
What is Pharaoh?
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
Who is at the bottom of the social pyramid?
Peasants
Most of Egypt is covered by this terrain.
What is desert?
This made the soil fertile in the Nle River Valley.
What is the flooding of the Nile River?
This term is used to describe a government with religious laws and leaders.
What is theocracy?
This is how the Ancient Egyptians preserved their dead
mummification
This word is what happens when there was too much water for the Nile to hold
flooding
This is the name of the sea that borders Egypt to the north.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This is the name for the written language of the Egyptians
What is hieroglyphics?
This is why the egyptian leaders were so powerful (who they were believed to be).
What is gods in human form?
The Egyptians believed the ka (spirit) had human needs in the afterlife so they ________
What is buried people with food, drink, and possessions?
A triangular shaped piece of land where a river empties into a larger body of water.
What is a delta?
This is the name that the Egyptians gave their land in the Nile River Valley.
What is the black land?
This is a type of paper the Egyptians used for writing.
What is papyrus?
This pharaoh became king at age 9
King Tut
This is the Egyptian god of the dead, in charge of mummification.
Who is Anubis?
A benefit of Egypt being surrounded by desert.
This is how the Nile River flowed.
South to North
This is a device used to raise and lower water
What is a shaduf?
A female pharaoh who ruled along side her son. Dressed like a man to gain respect and authority.
Hatshepsut.
Egyptian Sun God
Ra
This group was part of the upper class, just below the government officials.
priests