Geography
Ancient Egyptians lived along this river
What is the Nile?
Who is Menes?
Ancient Egypt, Kush and Aksum worshipped many gods and goddesses. This is called _______
What is polytheism?
Even though Egypt is located in a desert, its soil was fertile because _______________
The Nile River flooded and left behind silt
This is a writing system developed by the ancient Egyptians, using symbols to communicate.
What is hieroglyphics?
This Nile River flows in this direction...
From __________ to ______________
What is
From South to North
This Queen ruled Egypt during the New Kingdom and became powerful by expanding trade routes.
These structures are huge tombs built by hand from giant stones.
What are pyramids?
The Sinai Peninsula was known for the natural resources ___________ and _______________
What are turquoise and copper?
This writing surface is made by pressing reeds.
What is papyrus?
Each year, the Nile River floods and leaves behind _________ when it recedes. This makes the land very fertile for farming.
What is silt?
This King of Egypt is mostly famous because he died at a young age and his tomb was found intact.
Who is King Tutankhamen?
King Tut
These tall structures with a rectangular base and pyramid shape at top were first built in ancient Egypt, but can still be seen in architecture, like in the Washington Monument.
What is an obelisk?
Perfume was produced and traded by Egypt. Some perfumes in King Tut's tomb still retained their fragrance. True or False?
True
Because his tomb was found intact, it taught us a lot about Egyptian life, art, architecture and painting.
Who was King Tut?
Which ancient peoples lived to the North of the Nile and to the South of the Nile?
(Two answers)
Egyptians lived North
Kushites lived South
Pharoah Khufu was a ruler in the Old Kingdom, and is mainly credited with building the __________
What are the pyramids?
Ancient Egyptians preserved the bodies of the Dead with this technique, then put the bodies in pyramids.
What is mummification?
or
What is a mummy?
Egyptian traders traveled as far as Asia Minor, the Middle East, and as far north as __________, in Europe.
What is Greece?
This is an imaginary creature with the head of a human and body of a lion.
What is a Sphinx?
The empires of Kush and Aksum were located in the place called Nubia, that is now the country of ___________
What is Sudan?
Who is King Ezana?
The Great Temple at Karnak was built to worship which god?
Who was Amon-Re, the Sun God?
This is the main trading city of Kush.
What is Meroe?
This stone was inscribed in the three languages of Greek, hieroglyphics and a later form of Egyptian writing and helped us decipher ancient Egyptian writings.
What is the Rosetta Stone?