VOCABULARY
GEOGRAPHY
PEOPLE
KINGDOMS
MUMMIFICATION
100
Means "sacred writing" in Greek
What are hieroglyphics?
100
Longest river of the world
What is the Nile?
100
Egyptian sun god
Who is Ra?
100
Nicknamed the Pyramid Age
What is the Old Kingdom?
100
Salt used to dry out the body
What is natron?
200
triangular shaped fertile piece of land that empties into a larger body of water
What is a delta?
200
Dry, arid land that makes up most of Egypt
What is a desert?
200
First known architect
Who is Imhotep?
200
Time of King Tut and Ramses II
What is the New Kingdom?
200
Removed through the nose and discarded
What is the brain?
300
Reed growing along the Nile used to make paper, mats, medicine, baskets, and sandals
What is papyrus?
300
Area of rich, fertile land around the Nile
What are the Blacklands?
300
Ruler who united Upper and Lower Egypt
Who is Menes?
300
Known as Egypt's Golden Age
What is the Middle Kingdom?
300
organs were placed in these for safekeeping
What are canopic jars?
400
Found in 1799 by Napoleon's soldiers containing the key to translating hieroglyphs.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
400
Two major bodies of water bordering Egypt
What are the Mediterranean and Red Seas?
400
Jackal-headed god of embalming
Who is Anubis?
400
Period ended when Egypt was conquered by the Hyksos
What is the Middle Kingdom?
400
Spirit that was considered a shadow of oneself
What is the Ka?
500
large stone coffin.
What is a sarcophagus?
500
Country to the south of Egypt
What is Sudan?
500
Pharaoh who tried to make Egypt a monotheistic nation
Who is Akenhaton?
500
Egypt expanded its borders and became a world power
What is the New Kingdom?
500
Number of days it took to complete the mummification process
What is 70?
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