Society and Culture
Farmers used this annual occurrence to create the first known calendar.
What is the flooding of the Nile River?
The name given to the symbols ancient Egyptians used to communicate.
What is hieroglyphics?
This is the continent Egypt is a part of.
What is Africa?
Who determined how the people of ancient Egypt were ruled?
Who is a god?
There are many of these massive structures throughout Egypt.
What are pyramids?
The place Egyptians believed the dead would go if they made it through to the afterlife.
What is the Land of Two Fields?
This piece of technology was created with two wheels and was used in battle.
What is the chariot?
The direction in which the Nile River flows.
What is north?
The people in the Egyptian government that recorded information in writing.
Who were scribes?
The name of an elaborate coffin a pharaoh was placed in upon death.
What is sarcophagus?
The name given to the sun god.
What is Ra?
This is the plant used to make items like paper, mats, and sandals.
What is papyrus reed?
The large body of water the Nile River flows into.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The role of the person who trained and led armies into battle.
What is a general?
The material left being after the Nile River flooded that helped make the soil rich.
What is silt?
The name given to skilled workers in the ancient Egyptian society who created and built different things, like jewelry, pottery, and tools.
What is craftsmen?
This is the name of the process used to prepare a body before being wrapped as a mummy.
What is embalming?
The area where the Nile River ends and meets a large body of water.
What is the Nile Delta?
The role of the person who was responsible for collecting taxes for the pharaohs.
What is (chief) treasurer?
The worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
This word refers to the system the ancient Egyptians used to get water to their crop fields.
What is irrigation?
The name given to the number system we still use today in our understanding of math.
What is the base-10 number system?
The (two) names given to the northern area of land in Egypt and the southern area of land in Egypt.
What are Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt?
A word or phrase that refers to the leveling or ranking of the different roles people had in ancient Egypt.
What is hierarchy or social structure?
The word meaning a line of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?