The Mighty River
The longest river in the world.
What is the Nile?
The material most Egyptian homes made of.
What are mud bricks?
The type of writing system ancient Egyptians use.
What is Hieroglyphs?
Egypt’s main highway for trade and transportation.
What is the Nile River?
The ruler of ancient Egypt.
What is the pharaoh?
The two types of land in Egypt.
What is the Black Land and the Red Land.
Two specialized job in ancient Egypt.
Who are farmers, artisans, scribes, or soldiers?
Egyptian invention that helped historians decode hieroglyphs.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Two goods Egypt traded with other civilizations.
What are grains, gold, papyrus, jewelry, tools, or linen?
The Pharaoh’s role besides being a ruler.
What is ruling as a god?
What the Nile's yearly floods provided farmers.
What is fertile soil for crops.
Rights women had in ancient Egypt that women in other civilizations often didn’t?
What is own property, run businesses, and serve as priestesses?
How Egyptians used astronomy in their daily life.
What is developed a 365-day calendar to predict the Nile’s flooding?
Provided a steady food source and habitat for birds and animals.
What is the Nile River?
They maintained temples and performed religious ceremonies.
What are priests?
These acted as natural barriers against invasions.
What are deserts and mountains?
How slaves usually were acquired in ancient Egypt?
What were prisoners of war, rebels, and criminals?
The branch of mathematics that Egyptians use to measure land.
What is geometry?
The tool Egyptians used to lift water from the Nile for irrigation.
What is a shaduf (bucket-and-pulley system)?
The female Pharaoh who held significant power?
What is Hatshepsut?
The feature of the Nile that made it difficult for invaders to travel upstream.
What are cataracts (waterfalls)?
The role of government officials in Egypt.
What is helped run the kingdom and collect taxes?
The medical advancements that ancient Egyptians developed.
What are surgeries, used herbal remedies, and wrote medical texts?
The two main crops grown by Egyptian farmers.
What are wheat, barley, flax, and papyrus?
They were tombs for Pharaohs.
What are pyramids?