Geography and Early Egypt
The FIRST pharaoh of Egypt
Menes
Specially treated bodies wrapped in cloth.
Mummies
She is best known for increasing Egyptian trade and supporting the arts and architecture of the New Kingdom.
Queen Hatshepsut
Featured in some of Egypt's most elaborate temples, these imaginary creatures had the bodies of lions and the heads of other animals or humans.
Sphinxes
A series of rulers from the same family.
Dynasty
The Nile Delta
The Egyptians built temples to many gods such as Ptah, Horus, Isis, and Osiris, in a religious practice most commonly known as this.
Polytheism
The period during which Egypt reached the height of its power and glory
The New Kingdom
In 1799, a French soldier discovered this key to reading ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, which featured text in Greek, hieroglyphics, and a later form of the Egyptian language.
The Rosetta Stone
The Old Kingdom
At several points of the Nile River, the rough terrain can cause these to form
Cataracts
Peasant families buried their dead in shallow graves at the end of the desert. Mummies could only be made for royalty and members of this Egyptian societal group who possessed wealth and power.
This group of Southwest Asians used horses, chariots, and advanced weapons to conquer Lower Egypt and rule for 200 years.
The Hyksos
It was Egypt's largest temple, built mainly to honor Amon-Re, the sun god. Over the years, pharaohs added to the temple's many buildings.
The Temple of Karnak
Egyptians made this by pressing layers of reeds together and pounding them into durable, and easy-to-roll sheets.
Papyrus
Memphis became a political and social center of Egypt because it was the capital city of which Dynasty?
Egypt's First Dynasty
It covers more than 13 acres at its base and is the largest of the pyramids located near the town of Giza.
The Great Pyramid of Khufu
Egyptians could rise in social status and recieved land as payment for serving in this professional position after wars of the Middle Kingdom.
A soldier in the professional army
In 1922, archaeologists discovered the tomb of this pharaoh, which was filled with treasures, including boxes of jewelry, robes, a burial mask, and ivory statues.
King Tutankhamen
In the New Kingdom, Egypt's empire expanded, allowing for the exchange of valuable resources in distant lands because of these.
Trade Routes
The pharaoh, Menes, symbolized his leadership and rule over the two kingdoms of Egypt by combining two of these.
Crown
As part of Egyptian society's middle class, these two groups of workers were considered to be lower in status than the pharaoh and nobles, yet higher in status than farmers, servants, and slaves.
Scribes & craftspeople
The pharaoh Ramses the Great is famously known for building a series of forts along the Nile Delta to fight off this group of people
The Tehenu
On either side of an Egyptian temple's gated entrance might stand one of these: a tall, four-sided pillar that is pointed on top.
Obelisk
Ancient Egyptians believed that this had all the same needs in the afterlife that the person had when he or she was living. It needed to eat, sleep, and be entertained.
Ka