Geography
The longest river in the world
What is The Nile?
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?
A person who studies human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
What is an archeologist?
There are many of these massive constructions throughout Egypt.
What are pyramids?
This large body of water is to the north of Egypt.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Farmers used this annual occurrence to help them grow their produce.
What is the annual flooding of the Nile River?
This tool made it easier to make pots and jars.
What is the potter's wheel?
Archaeologists study these human-made objects to learn what life was like for early humans and other animals.
What are artifacts?
These are wild, dangerous rapids located in the Nile River.
What are cataracts?
This is a geographic formation where the Nile River
meets the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile Delta (or river delta)?
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
The systematic digging and recording of an archaeological site.
What is an excavation?
This geographic land form is to the
east of the Nile River and is still part of Egypt.
What is the Sinai Peninsula?
This extreme geographic land form is to the west of Egypt.
What is the Western Desert? * Sahara Desert is also correct, but you need to know Western Desert and Eastern Desert.
What are the five main parts of civilization?
Ancient Egyptians used this to communicate on papyrus. (writing form of the Ancient Egyptians.)
What is hieroglyphics?
An arrangement of events in the order in which they occurred.
What is chronology?
A society that forms an organized way of living together with rules and laws.
What is a civilization?
The Nile River flows in this direction.
What is north?
The ancient Egyptians believed that these 'beings' controlled the universe. It was important to keep them happy.
Who are the Egyptian gods?
Ancient Egyptians were very good with medicine and science.
This means of preserving their dead is one example of
their skills.
What is mummification or embalming.
The period of time before written records; the absolute date for this period varies from place to place.
What is prehistoric?
The Ancient Egyptians followed a _________ religion. They believed in many gods.
What is polytheistic?