Geography
The continent where Ancient Egypt was located
What is Africa?
This is the title of the person who was second in command to the king.
What is a vizier?
Economy means...
What is the way a group makes and uses money?
The name for paper made out of reeds.
What is papyrus?
About how many gods did the A.Egyptians have?
About 2000?
The area around the Nile went by a moniker (nickname) of this color.
What is the Black Lands?
Who was higher in the Egyptian Social Class- priests or farmers?
Who are priests?
The ancient Egyptians lived along this river
What is the Nile?
This person was at the top of the social hierarchy in Ancient Egypt.
What is a Pharaoh?
What is it provided rich soil for growing food; it provided water for growing food; the Egyptians used boats on the Nile to help with trade?
This is the form of writing that Ancient Egyptians used.
What are hieroglyphics?
The ruler of a nome was called a
Huge tombs where wealthy members of society were buried.
What are pyramids?
Name two main places people worshipped their gods.
What are 1) at home 2) in the temple?
This is what the Northern part of Egypt was called.
What is Lower Egypt?
Kingship passed down from father to son is a
What is a dynasty?
What is barter?
Ancient Egyptians believed this body organ needed to stay in the body after death, because it is where the soul lived.
What is the heart?
A person or animal whose body has been dried or otherwise preserved after death is called a ...
What is a mummy?
The regions in Egypt were called ... (like we have boroughs...)
What is a nome?
Which group of people as a whole was most important to Egypt (Pharaoh is NOT the answer)
Who are the farmers?
Who is Ethiopia?
A government ruled by a king is called a...
What is a monarchy?
True or False: Gifts were also given to help civilizations stay friendly with each other.
What is True?
The Great Pyramids of ...
What is Giza?
More than 90% of Egypt consist of (is made of) this.
What is desert?
True or False: All ancient Egyptians knew how to read and write
What is False?
This crown was worn when Pharaoh officiated at religious ceremonies.
What is the Atef crown?
This is what the Southern part of Egypt was referred to as.
What is Upper Egypt?
This sect of people were trained in how to read and write.
What are scribes?
True or False: Only the Egyptian king and upper class benefited from trade.
What is False?
This is the fancier name for a mummy's tomb
What is a sarcophagus?
The Egyptians worshipped many gods. The term for that is _____.
What is polytheistic?
The area far from the Nile went by a moniker of this color.
What are the Red Lands?
True or false: Once a slave, always a slave?
What is false?
The Ancient Egyptians used this to create a calendar.
What is the schedule of the Nile's overflowing?
We spoke about several different crowns the Pharaoh wore for different occasions. Name two of them.
White, Red, Blue, Double Crown, Atef Crown
Within Egypt, Egyptians traded in...
What are marketplaces?
This is how long the mummification process took.
What is 70 days?
At one point, pyramid builders began to inscribe written accounts of events in the king’s reign on the walls of the burial chamber and the rest of the pyramid’s interior. What are these known as?
What are Pyramid Texts?
There were 3 different languages inscribed on this historical find.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
What were Akhet, Proyet, and Shomu?
What are the seasons of the A.Egyptian calendar?