Geography
This river flooded each year, bringing water and rich soil to nearby farms.
What is the Nile River?
Egyptians used this picture-based writing system.
What are hieroglyphics?
This ruler held the highest position in ancient Egyptian society.
Who is the pharaoh?
Most Egyptian farmers grew crops near this river.
What is the Nile River?
This title was used for the ruler of ancient Egypt.
What is pharaoh?
This desert lay west of the Nile River and helped protect Egypt.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Egyptians built these large stone structures as tombs for pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
These skilled writers kept records and handled official documents.
Who are scribes?
This activity involved exchanging goods with other people or regions.
What is trade?
This female pharaoh ruled Egypt and is known for a major trading expedition.
Who is Hatshepsut?
What direction did the Nile River flow as it traveled through Egypt toward the Mediterranean Sea?
What is north?
Egyptians developed this writing material from a plant that grew along the Nile.
What is papyrus?
These officials helped the pharaoh govern and oversee parts of the kingdom.
Who are government officials?
Name one valuable good Egyptians could trade.
What is grain, gold, or papyrus?
Which pharaoh expanded Egypt’s empire and ordered many monuments, including the temples at Abu Simbel?
Who is Ramses II?
Most people settled close to the Nile because it provided water and this farming benefit.
What is fertile soil from the river’s floods?
Egyptians used this process to preserve bodies for burial.
What is mummification?
Which group made up most of Egypt’s population and grew food or made goods?
Who are farmers and artisans?
How did the Nile’s yearly floods support Egypt’s economy?
What is that floods watered fields and left soil useful for farming?
This pharaoh is associated with a peace treaty with the Hittites and many building projects.
Who is Ramses II?
How did Egypt’s deserts and seas help shape its history?
What is that these natural barriers helped protect Egypt from invasion?
Name one way Egyptian knowledge of mathematics or engineering helped with major building projects.
What is measuring land or planning and building large structures?
How did a person’s place in Egypt’s social structure affect daily life?
What is that it shaped a person’s work, duties, and status?
Why did farming, craftwork, and trade all matter to Egypt’s economy?
What is that farming supplied food, craftwork made goods, and trade helped people exchange them?
What does Hatshepsut’s rule show about leadership in ancient Egypt?
What is that a woman could rule as pharaoh?