Vocab 1
The highest of rulers in Ancient Egypt.
What is a pharaoh?
A practice used by Egyptians of drying a dead body to prevent rotting.
What is mummification?
The city where the Great Pyramid is located.
What is Giza?
Life after death.
What is afterlife?
This obelisk is in the United States.
What is the Washington Monument?
Horse-drawn vehicles that the Egyptians used for war.
What are chariots?
A complex system of writing that used pictures by the Ancient Egyptians.
What are hieroglyphics?
Long-lasting, paper-like material made from reeds.
What is papyrus?
A stone-coffin, typically adorned with a sculpture or inscription.
What is a sarcophagus?
The river that runs throughout Egypt
What is the Nile river?
The type of governent in the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt.
What is bureaucracy?
A family of rulers having the right to rule being passed down.
What is a dynasty?
A tall, four-sided pillar that is pointed on top.
What is an obelisk?
Imaginary creature with the body of a lion and the head of other animals or humans.
What is a sphinx.
The last pharaoh of Egypt
Who is Cleopatra?
A person in charge of government bureaucracy.
What is a vizier?
The spiritual body
What is ka?
Northern part of Egypt where the delta flows into the Mediterranean sea. Are was more fertile.
What is Lower Egypt?
The south region of Egypt. Land was drier and more mountainous.
What is Upper Egypt?
This was originally on the top of the great pyramids before they were taken.
What is gold?
A simplified version of hieroglyphics.
What is hieratic script?
These lands were on both sides of the Nile. Uninhabited and were hot deserts.
What are the Red Lands?
Fertile lands near the Nile River. Villages developed along the river so they could farm.
What are the Black Lands?
Jars made to hold the organs removed during mummification.
What are canopic jars?
The physical body
What is ba.