Vocabulary
Geography
Rulers
Religion
Culture
100
Waterfalls or rapids
What are cataracts?
100
The Nile River is found on this continent
What is Africa?
100
He united Upper and Lower Egypt
Who is King Menes?
100
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
100
Most of the people belonged to this social class
Who are peasants?
200
A form of writing based on pictures
What are hieroglyphics?
200
The length of the Nile River
What is about 4,000 miles?
200
The first female pharoah
Who is Hatshepsut?
200
A place Egyptians believed your spirit would go when you died
What is the afterlife?
200
Had a lot of the rights as men had
Who are women?
300
The direction he Nile River flows
What is North?
300
The boy king who died at age 18
Who is King Tut?
300
A process of preserving the body after death so that the spirit can recognize it when it comes back for food and offerings
What is mummification?
300
They formed the middle class
Who are merchants and skilled workers?
400
Rich soil found at the bottom of a river
What is silt?
400
Where the Nile River empties into
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
The king who showed mercy and who destroyed his mother's statues because she kept the thrown from him
Who is Thutmose III?
400
The chief god of the ancient Egyptians
Who is Amon-Re?
500
The importance of the Nile to the Egyptians
What is fertile soil for farming?
500
Where pharaohs were burried
What is a pyramid?
500
The reason pyramid workers were willing to do such a dangerous job
What is ensuring the pharaoh's place in the afterlife?
500
A way the ancient Egyptians kept track of their wealth
What is hieroglyphics?
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