The Nile River
The Nile River is approximately how long in length?
What is 4,100 miles.
What continent is Egypt located in?
What is Africa.
What does hieroglyphics translate to?
What is holy writings.
The majority of Ancient Egypts population were what?
What are peasants or farmers.
What is the definition of the word treacherous?
What is dangerous or risky.
There are 4 major barriers surrounding the Nile. Name these barriers.
What is the Mediterranean Sea, mountain ranges, treacherous land, and desert.
How many miles is the Sahara Desert?
What is 3,000 miles.
How many hieroglyphics are in the Egyptian Alphabet?
What is over 700?
Who were the only members of the Ancient Egyptian civilization to read and write?
What are scribes.
What does it mean to create or write something?
What is compose.
The Nile River helped Ancient Egyptians maintain three major crops. What were these crops?
What is wheat, flax, and papyrus.
What does the Nile River empty out to?
What is the Mediterranean Sea.
What were hieroglyphics usually written on?
What are tablets and Papyrus?
Where did most Egyptians live?
What is sun backed mud houses.
What does it mean to straggle?
What is to stray off or fall behind.
What two types of rock were often found near the Nile?
What is Limestone and Sandstone.
Egypt is roughly the same length as what US state?
What is California
What is the Rosetta Stone?
What is a text written to honor the pharaohs.
What was the main type of makeup worn by Ancient Egyptians?
What is eye makeup.
What is the definition of gingerly?
The Nile River is described as being depicted as this object in Egyptian Art.
What is a Lotus Flower.
What part of Egypt is closer to the Mediterranean Sea?
Who in Ancient Egypt was in-charge of writing hieroglyphics and hieratic script?
What are Scribes.
What did most people use to bathe?
What is the Nile River?
How would you describe dingy?
What is dirty, dull, or shabby.