Geography
The Nile River flows from ________ to _________.
What is South to North?
The number of levels or classes on the social hierarchy.
What is 5?
These were rapids of the Nile that spread out onto the land.
What is a cataract?
The Egyptians believed in an after life so they did this.
What is mummification? What is a tomb?
The Great Pyramid of Giza was built for what Pharaoh?
Who is Khufu?
This is what resulted in classifying Egypt into Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt
What is the Nile?
They often competed with the Pharaoh for power.
Who are Priests? Who are Nomarch/Nobles?
A plant that grows along the Nile and its reed like features made for a new form of record keeping
What is papyrus?
Egyptians believed that these be in tombs to show "scenes" as instructions for the after life
What is paintings?
Who was the first female Pharoah?
Hatshepsut
The continent where Ancient Egypt was located
What is Africa?
They worked on construction projects during the flood season or served as soldiers during war.
Who were farmers?
A line or succession of rulers all from one family
What is a dynasty?
Used as formal writing system.
What is hieroglyphics?
The Pharoah who temporarily made Egypt monotheistic.
Who is Amenhotep IV?
The Great Pyramid was built here
Where is Giza?
They could collect taxes and supervise government officials.
What is a vizier?
After embalming is done the next process is this.
What is mummification?
Amenhotep IV changed his name to this.
Who is Akenhaten?
Egypt was protected to the west and to the east by these geographic features
What is a desert?
An Egyptian woman could sometimes work as artisans, scribes, priests, serve as a government official, divorce her husband and also do this
What is own property or sign a contract?
In this form of government the political leader is also the religious leader.
What is a theocracy?
This "cracked the code" and allowed historians and archaeologists to decode hieroglyphics because of the Greek translation on it.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
He was a "great" military leader and also made the first ever peace treaty.
Who is Ramses II?