Vocabulary
The belief in more than one god.
What is Polytheism?
The continent where Egypt can be found.
What is Africa?
What is a pyramid?
The top of the social class in Ancient Egypt.
Who is the pharaoh?
The longest river in the world can be found in Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
A long-lasting , paperlike material made from reeds. Scribes wrote on tis uses brushes and ink.
What is papyrus?
What is Ka?
A person who wrote hieroglyphics in Ancient Egypt.
What is a scribe?
Geographic features that helped to protect the Nile Delta.
What are seas and deserts?
The ruler of the Old Kingdom who began building pyramids.
Who is Khufu?
The people the pyramids were built for.
What are pharaohs?
What are farmers, slaves, servants, and other peasants?
The season where the Nile floods and leaves behind very fertile land in the delta region.
What is summer?
The Egyptians had two calendars. What were the two calendars based on?
What is the sun and the moon?
The areas of Egypt where peasants were buried and their body would become preserved naturally.
What is the desert?
Egyptian writing system that used picture symbols.
What is hieroglyphics?
Large desert to the west of the Nile.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Known as the last great Egyptian pharaoh, he was a great warrior and ruler and increased the size of Egypt through conquering others.
Who is Ramses the Great?
The Great Pyramid was built in Gaza for this Old Kingdom pharaoh.
Who is Khufu?
This social group fought off invaders and were given land as payment. They could also keep any treasure they found during war.
What are soldiers?
The direction the Nile River flows.
What is north?
What is the heart?
A triangle shaped area of land made from soil deposited by a river.
What is a delta?
The sea to the North which the Nile flows into.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
His tomb was found with the articles he has been buried with and through that taught us much about Ancient Egyptian life and burials.
Who is King Tut?
Burial in a pyramid demonstrated the importance of ________.
Who is the pharaoh?
The people who designed the temples and royal tombs of Egypt.
What are architects?
Another name for the Nile Delta, based on the level of the land to the sea.
What is Lower Egypt?
Historians were able to read ancient Egyptian writing because of this.
What is The Rosetta Stone?
What are objects left with the dead for the aferlife?
A series of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
The sea separating Egypt from The Middle East. It is found to the east of Egypt.
What is the Red Sea?
She is known as the woman who called herself king and increased Egypt's strength through trade.
Who is Queen Hat?
Who are peasants?
They wrote and copied religious and literary texts and kept records for the government and temples.
What are scribes?
What is farming?
Many of these had sphinxes and an obelisk at the entrances.
What is a temple?
The spirit could not be recognized if this happened to the dead body of Ancient Egyptians.
What is decaying?