Ancient Egypt 1
Egypt is located on this continent?
What is Africa?
This is how the Ancient Egyptians preserved their dead
What is mummification?
Worshipping multiple gods.
What is polytheism?
These were "second homes" to live on in the Afterlife.
What is a tomb?
The environment that borders the Nile is ________
What is desert?
The Egyptians live along this river.
What is the Nile?
This word means king.
What is Pharaoh?
Named for the Greek letter D, this is created by deposition of sediment carried by the river when it enters the Mediterranean.
What is a Nile delta?
True or False: All ancient Egyptians knew how to read and write.
What is False?
This happened when the river inundated the banks.
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.
What is True?
The Ancient Egyptian form of writing.
What are Hieroglyphics?
Before mummification, this organ was removed and thought to be the brain & soul.
What is the heart?
Horus had the head of a _______
What is falcon?
She was a well-known female pharaoh.
Who is Hatshepsut?
Egyptian Sun God is ____
Who is Ra?
These were built by hand with the labor of the kingdom.
What are pyramids?
Egyptians put this on their faces to keep bugs away.
What is makeup?
This was the major result of the Nile flooding and reason for Egypt's survival.
What is fertile soil?
Rapids found south along the Nile River are known as _______
What are cataracts?
This was made out of papyrus and made into scrolls.
What is paper?
The tallest building in the world for 4,000 years and is the only one of the Seven Ancient Wonders still standing.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
Because the Egyptians knew when the Nile was going to flood every year and that it made it more predictable than what two Mesopotamian rivers?
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
These were placed inside canopic jars.
What are organs?