Geography
This body of water bordered Egypt to the north.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Most people in Egypt worked this type of job.
What is farming?
Ancient Egyptians worshipped many gods. This type of religion is called ____________.
What is polytheism?
ancient form of writing best defined as being composed of pictographs
What is hieroglyphics?
a great stone tomb built for an Egyptian pharaoh
What is a pyramid?
This body of water bordered Egypt to the east.
What is the Red Sea?
This class was the largest class of people in ancient Egypt?
What is the lowest class?
god of the underworld
Who is Osiris?
Ancient Egyptians harvested this reed plant that grew along the shores of the Nile River and was used to make baskets, sandals, river rafts, and paper.
What is papyrus?
This tool helped farmers transfer water from the Nile River to irrigate the land.
What is a shadoof?
The reason Egypt is sometimes called "the gift of the Nile."
What is the Nile provided Egypt with water for crops? (Egypt would be completely desert without the Nile River.)
The type of government in which current rulers pass power on to relatives within their family.
What is a dynasty?
god of the sun
Who is Re?
The Great Pyramid of Giza was built for this ancient Egyptian leader.
Who is Pharaoh Khufu?
These geographic features provided natural barriers that helped protect Egypt from invasion. (must provide at least three features)
What are the Nile Delta, cataracts, deserts (red land), Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, and mountains?
The ancient civilizations of Egypt often divided their lands into two regions called the Upper Kingdom and the Lower Kingdom. This geographic feature led to the use of these two terms.
What is the flow of the Nile River?
Ancient Egypt civilization developed a large slave population as a result of this.
What is Egyptian armies enslaved people who were defeated in battle?
Ancient Egyptians used these two processes to help prepare/protect a person's body after death. (must provide both processes in order to receive points)
What are embalming and mummification?
While building the pyramids, ancient Egyptians developed this way of measuring time.
What is the 365-day calendar?
This group of people made up the middle class in ancient Egyptian society. (must name at least two)
Who are traders, merchants, artisans, and scribes?
Ancient Nubia has this modern-day name.
What is Sudan?
Pharaohs were given the power to rule in ancient Egyptian society because people believed the pharaohs ___________.
What is were living gods?
Ancient Egyptians believed the gods controlled these two things?
What are natural forces and human activity?
Ancient Egyptians built the pyramids for these two reasons.
What are to protect and honor their dead leaders?
This monument was built to honor one of Egypt's pharaohs and stands today among the pyramids in Giza.
What is the Sphinx?