Egyptian Kings & Queens
This was the title given to Egypt’s rulers, who were believed to be gods on Earth.
What is a pharaoh?
This river was central to Egyptian life and civilization.
Answer: What is the Nile River?
This Egyptian god was the god of the underworld and was believed to judge people’s souls after death.
Answer: Who is Osiris?
The Egyptians grew these crops, which helped feed the population.
Answer: What is wheat, barley, or flax?
This famous pyramid is the largest in Egypt and was built as a tomb for a pharaoh.
Answer: What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
This famous young pharaoh’s tomb was discovered almost perfectly intact in 1922.
Who is King Tutankhamun?
The Nile’s flooding helped farmers because it left behind rich soil, ideal for growing crops. This type of soil is called what?
Answer: What is fertile soil?
Egyptians believed that when a person died, their soul would travel to this place to be judged.
Answer: What is the afterlife?
Egyptians traded items such as gold and papyrus with other countries. This type of work was done by people who traveled and exchanged goods. What were these people called?
Answer: Who are merchants?
Egyptians believed that the soul needed this to live in the afterlife, so they placed these items in tombs with the dead.
Answer: What are belongings or treasures?
Pharaohs were often buried in these large structures that were designed to protect their bodies for the afterlife.
What are pyramids?
The flooding of the Nile helped the farmers plant their crops, how often did this flooding happen?
Answer: What is every year (or annually)?
This god, the sun god, was said to travel across the sky in a boat each day.
Answer: Who is Ra?
These workers created art, pottery, and other goods in ancient Egypt.
Answer: Who are artisans?
This ancient structure, half-man and half-lion, was built near the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Answer: What is the Sphinx?
The Egyptians believed that the soul of a pharaoh would be judged by this god in the afterlife.
Who is Osiris?
Who were specially trained writers that used hieroglyphics to record important information and ensure that the pharaoh's rules and history?
Answer: What is scribes?
Egyptians believed that the pharaoh was this on Earth, a living version of....
Answer: What is a god or divine ruler?
How many different symbols were there in hieroglyphics?
Answer: What is 700?
The Egyptians practiced this technique of preserving bodies for the afterlife, which involved wrapping them in cloth.
Answer: What is mummification?
This was the name of the most powerful and famous Egyptian god, believed to travel across the sky every day.
Who is Ra?
Hieroglyphics were made up of pictures and symbols that represented sounds, words, or ideas. Where was this writing system used on?
Answer: What is temples, tombs, and monuments?
This ritual was performed to preserve the body after death, allowing the soul to live on.
Answer: What is mummification?
This was the written language of ancient Egypt, often seen on tombs and monuments.
Answer: What is hieroglyphics?
This famous tomb, discovered in 1922, belonged to a young pharaoh and was filled with treasures.
Answer: What is King Tutankhamun’s tomb? "King Tut"