Geography
This is the most important river to the ancient Egyptian civilization.
What is the Nile River?
This is how ancient Egyptians viewed their pharaohs at the beginning of their civilization.
They considered a pharaoh to be a living god.
This is the job of a scribe.
What is "writing hieroglyphs?"
This is the god of creation.
Who is Ra?
This organ was kept in a mummified body.
What is the heart?
The ancient Egyptian farmers only worked part of the year due to this happening every year.
What is the Nile River flooding?
These were two female pharaohs.
Who are Hatshepsut and Cleopatra?
When unable to work in the fields, ancient Egyptian farmers would do this kind of work instead.
What is creating monuments or pyramids?
This is the god of the underworld.
Who is Osiris?
1. Remove all organs except for the heart.
2. Dry out the body by soaking it in a salt mixture called natron for 40 days.
3. Wrap the body in linen
4. Place the body in a casket.
Ancient Egypt is located here.
What is Northeast Africa?
He made all Egyptians worship only the sun god, Aten.
List each group from Egyptian society we learned about from most important to least important (1 is the highest level and 5 is the lowest level.)
1. Pharaohs
2. High Priests
3. Scribes
4. Artisans
5. Farmers and Laborers
This is the god of the desert.
Who is Set?
In the Hall of Two Truths, the mummy's heart would be weighed against this object.
What is an ostrich feather?
This is why Upper and Lower Egypt had their names, even through Lower Egypt is in the North and Upper Egypt is in the South.
The Nile River flowed from south to north because of the elevation of Egypt.
Be prepared to write 3-5 sentences on this topic. What can you add?
This is why Tutankhamun was important.
His grave was untouched by thieves when it was discovered in 1922.
Name three Egyptian inventions.
Possible answers:
- Hieroglyphs
- Papyrus
- Hooks for holding wounds open
- Medical records
- Pyramids
Be able to identify Egyptian inventions from Mesopotamian inventions.
This is the goddess of the home.
Who is Isis?
This is how the construction of pyramids reflected the ancient Egyptian belief in the afterlife.
By having space to keep a dead person's things to be ready for the afterlife, pyramids also reached up towards the sun god, and had corridors to keep thieves out.
Be prepared to write 3-5 sentences on this topic. What can you add?
How did the invention of irrigation help to make ancient Egypt a more complex society?
Once Egyptians built the canals and dams to irrigate their farms, they were able to grow more food than they needed. This surplus allowed people to do different kinds of work. Because people did not need to only farm, this allowed the Egyptians to invent more things and create a more complex culture.
Be prepared to write 3-5 sentences on this topic. What can you add?