Egyptian Gods
This Egyptian sun god was considered the king of the gods.
Who is Ra?
The Nile was important to agriculture because water could be taken from the river to water farmers' fields, a process known as this.
What is irrigation?
These Egyptian structures were used as tombs for the pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
The Egyptians were the first to develop this system, focused on rules and on punishing bad behaviour in society.
What is law?
This class of Egyptians performed daily rituals at temples to the gods.
Who are priests?
This Egyptian god was the god of the afterlife, resurrection, and farming.
Who is Osiris?
The Nile helped with the construction of the pyramids because these could be floated down the river with very little effort.
What are limestone blocks?
The Egyptian writing system, known as this, was mostly picture-based, but was able to express complex thoughts and ideas because it still corresponded to syllables.
What is hieroglyphics?
The Egyptians were the first to use this siege weapon, consisting of a protective roof over a large, heavy, swinging piece of equipment that would be used against gates and walls.
What is a battering ram?
The pharaoh was not considered to be a human, but one of these instead.
What is a god?
This god was the god of the sky and the divine protector of the pharaoh.
Who is Horus?
The Egyptians used the Nile River to establish this with their neighbours to the south, the Nubians, for gold and incense.
What is trade?
The Egyptians produced many well-decorated pieces of this, including vases and bowls, which were usually made out of terracotta or clay
What is pottery?
This Egyptian form of paper was made from parts of plants.
What is papyrus?
Who are viziers?
This goddess is the goddess of motherhood, magic, and fertility.
Who is Isis?
The Nile's yearly floods helped to renew the soil by depositing this on the land every year.
What is sediment?
This Egyptian process, done to preserve a body after death, was thought to be extremely important for a dead person to reach the afterlife intact.
What is embalming?
The Egyptians developed the first version of this system, which carries documents across an area.
What is a postal system?
These Egyptians were trained in reading and writing, and usually assisted the pharaoh's court.
Who are scribes?
This god of chaos murdered his brother, Osiris.
Who is Set?
The Nile ends in one of these, a fertile area where the Nile slows down and deposits additional sediment as it reaches the Mediterranean Sea.
What is a delta?
The positioning and alignment of many important Egyptian buildings suggests that Egyptians had advanced understanding of this field of study.
What is astronomy?
This was a hand-operated lever system used to take water from the Nile River for irrigation.
What is a shadoof?
This Egyptian concept was the belief that the world has a lawful and just order, thanks to the gods, which must be maintained.
What is ma'at?