Ancient Egypt 1
The continent where Ancient Egypt was located
What is Africa?
This word means a long, long time ago
What is ancient?
The act of giving or doing something.
contribution
Mummies were placed in these
What is a tomb?
This is the environment of Egypt
What is desert?
The ancient Egyptians lived along this river
What is the Nile?
This word means king
What is Pharaoh?
The Nile provided this for the Ancient Egyptians
What is it provided rich soil for growing food; it provided water for growing food; the Egyptians used boats on the Nile to carry food from place to place?
One ancient Egyptian invention was the kite? true or false
What is False?
This word is what happens when there was too much water for the Nile to hold
What is flood?
A large statue that has the body of a lion and the head of a human.
What is Sphinx?
True of False: The Nile floods every year
True
The Ancient Egyptian form of writing
What are Hieroglyphics?
The Nile river flows South to North? True or False
What is true
What is irrigation?
The ancient Egyptians invented the 365 day calendar with 12 months. True or False
true
Which god guards the underworld?
Osiris
These huge tombs were built by hand with no machines
What are pyramids?
The Nile is the shortest river in the world? true or false
Egypt’s ancient history could be divided into three main periods of time.
Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom
A process of embalming and drying corpses to prevent them from decaying
What is mummification
This was made out of papyrus and sometimes made into scrolls
What is paper?
This is how the Ancient Egyptians preserved their dead
What is mummification?
The climate of Egypt is hot and dry?
What is true?
The Egyptians worshipped many gods. true or false
What is true