Society and Culture
This person can be found at the top of the ancient Egyptian social pyramid.
Who is the pharaoh?
This item is what ancient Egyptians used to write upon.
What is papyrus?
The longest river in the world
What is the Nile River
What is a Dynasty?
This invention helped farmers with irrigation
What is a shadoof?
Ancient Egyptian religion is this type.
What is polytheistic or polytheism?
Ancient Egyptians used this type of writing to communicate on papyrus.
What is hieroglyphics?
This large body of water is to the north of Egypt
and provided protection from that direction.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The pharaoh required all other people
to see the ruler as one of these.
What is a God?
Hieroglyphics of a name written inside an oval shape. Name by a french archaeologist.
What is a Cartouche?
These are the people at the bottom of the social pyramid in ancient Egypt.
What are unskilled workers or slaves.
*Any response will count
In addition to making paper, papyrus was also used in this manner.
What is making sandals, baskets, and boats.
*If you named one of these items, you get the points.
This is a geographic formation where the Nile River meets the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile Delta?
One of the two types of governments
that made up the blended ancient Egyptian government.
What is monarchy or theocracy?
These are wild, dangerous rapids located in the Nile River.
What are cataracts?
Farmers used this annual occurrence to help them grow their produce.
What is the annual flooding of the Nile River?
Ancient Egyptians were very good with medicine and science.
This means of preserving their dead is one example of
their skills.
What is mummification
This extreme geographic landform is to the west of Egypt.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This civilization began to grow mightly in modern day Sudan. Eventually conquering Egypt in 1000 BC.
What is the Kush or Nubian Kingdom?
There are many of these massive
constructions throughout Egypt.
What is Pyramids?
In addition to the annual flooding of the Nile River,
ancient and modern Egyptian farmers still use this
technology in their farming.
What is irrigation?
This is one of the mathematical innovations
of the ancient Egyptians still in use today.
What is the 365 day calendar
... or... the base 10 number system?
(Either answer works, you should know both!)
Our textbook also mentions geometry.
The Nile River flows in this direction.
What is north?
Modern Egyptian form of government.
What is a democracy?
This natural barrier is to the
east of the Nile River and plays a huge role in defense for the Egyptian Kingdoms.
What is the Red Sea?