Geography
The river that runs through the middle of Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
Name for the belief in life after death.
What is the afterlife?
Name of the kings/queens of Egypt.
What are pharaohs?
Found at the top of the Egyptian social hierarchy.
Who is the pharaoh?
Farming achievement that helped Egyptians work the ground prior to planting seeds.
What is the plow?
Name of the material that helps make the soil of Egypt fertile in an arid region.
What is silt?
Ancient Egyptian religion could be considered ____ because of their belief in many gods.
What is polytheistic?
Name for the series of rulers from the same ethnic group or family.
What is a dynasty?
Found at the bottom of the social hierarchy.
What are the peasants/farmers?
The area of science that helped Egyptians create their calendar year.
What is astronomy?
The desert that surrounds Egypt.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Served as tombs for the pharaohs of the Old and Middle Kingdom.
What are pyramids?
A type of government ruled by a king or queen.
What is a monarchy?
Who are the peasants?
Name of the writing system developed by the Egyptians?.
What is hieroglyphics?
Reasons that Egypt's river is considered a "gift".
What is it provides food, water, transportation, and building material sources?
Process in which Egyptians preserved their bodies for the afterlife.
What is mummification?
A type of government ruled by a religious leader.
What is a theocracy?
Group that was made up of POWs captured in battle.
Who are the slaves?
Major architectural feature that is one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World.
What is the Pyramid of Giza?
What is the flow of Egypt's river?
Name of the main Egyptian god.
What is Amon Re?
BEST name for the government type of ancient Egypt.
What is a theocratic monarchy?
What is working on projects for the pharaohs?
Stone that helped decipher the meaning of hieroglyphs.
What is the Rosetta Stone?