Vocabulary
What are Cataracts?
What is steep cliffs and large boulders that form dangerous, fast-moving waters.
Which cardinal direction is Upper Egypt?
What is South.
Why were the Egyptians so loyal to the Pharoah?
What is he was the son of Re.
What were most houses made of?
What is sun dried mud bricks and or wood.
What are Hieroglyphics
What is the combination of pictures and sound symbols creating a complex writing system called hieroglyphics.
Why is the Nile River Valley called "The black land"?
What is the dark rich soil.
What is polytheistic.
What was the largest social class in Ancient Egypt?
What is farmers, unskilled laborers, and enslaved people. (Lowest class)
What's a dynasty?
What is the right to rule passed down from father to son.
What made life in the dessert possible?
What is the Nile River.
Who was Osiris?
What is the first ruler of Ancient Egypt/ greeter of the afterlife.
What are the rights of woman in Ancient Egypt?
What is the same rights as men.
Who is the Pharoah?
What is the ruler of Egypt.
What cardinal direction is Ancient Egypt in Africa?
What is North West.
Why would Egyptians embalm their dead?
What is protecting the body for the afterlife.
How common was it for children to attend school?
What is few children went to school.
What's a delta?
What is a fan shaped fertile marshland.
What dessert is west of Ancient Egypt?
What is the Sahara.
Who could afford to put their preserved body safely in a tomb?
What is the wealthy.
Who took care of the elderly in Ancient Egypt?
What is the eldest son or eldest daughter.