Key Vocabulary
What is Great House?
This "Boy king" died at a young age and is most famous because his pyramid was recovered with his mummy inside.
Who is King Tut (Tutankhamen)?
The only organ to be left in the body during the mummification process.
The Egyptians created the world's first form of paper with this plant.
What is papyrus?
What is true.
When rulers of a nation come from one family.
What is a dynasty?
This Pharaoh ruled for over 60 years, made peace with the Hittites, and had over 100 children and wives.
Who is Ramses II?
The salt product used during the mummification process.
What is natron?
This part of the Egyptian social class pyramid had to be able to read and write Hieroglyphics and keep accurate notes of all events.
Who are scribes?
The triangle shaped mouth of the Nile that empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile Delta?
Nameplate that Egyptians placed on their burial coffins.
What is a cartouche?
The Pharaoh Senusret I was seen as the patron of which social class group in Egyptian society?
Who are artisans?
These were the vessels that held one's stomach, intestines, lungs, and liver.
What are Canopic Jars?
This language on the Rosetta Stone allowed Europeans to crack the code of hieroglyphics.
What is Ancient Greek?
The entire Egyptian calendar was built around this annual event concerning the Nile River.
What is flooding/overflowing?
A group of rocky rapids that made it impossible to travel upstream into Egypt.
What are cataracts?
The female Pharaoh Hatshepsut sent over 5 ships and 200 men to this African Kingdom to establish trade.
What is Punt?
Priests performing the ritual of mummification would wear the mask of this god.
Who is Anubis?
Unlike the Sumerian language where images represented entire words, Hieroglyphic symbols instead represented this.
What is a sound?
The two sources of the Nile River are the White Nile from Lake Victoria and this source from the highlands of Ethiopia.
What is the Blue Nile?
A system of offices and officials that handle the business of government.
What is a bureacracy?
The first Pharaoh of unified Egypt. His crown included both the white crown of Upper Egypt and the red crown of Lower Egypt.
The monster god who would devour the hearts of those who did not pass the Feather of Truth test.
Who is Ammut?
The year in which the Rosetta Stone was discovered.
What is 1799?
The Egyptian season for planting and growing of crops.
What is Peret?