Egypt Vocabulary
Mummification
Nile River Facts
5 Levels of the
Social Pyramid
Potpourri
100
The discovery of this helped decode the hieroglyphs and unlocked the history of Egypt
What is The Rosetta Stone.
100
This is made from the flax plan and is used to wrap mummies.
What is linen.
100
The hand shaped area near the mouth of the river.
What is the delta
100
The person at the top of the Social Pyramid.
Who is the pharoah.
100
The continent found at (0 degrees N, 30 degrees E)
What is Africa.
200
An oval with a name written in hieroglyphics (to identify a person when his soul returned.)
What is a cartouche
200
The first thing Egyptians did in the mummification process.
What is wash the body in the Nile.
200
The direction the Nile River flows.
What is north (or south to north)
200
The people on the second tier of the Social Pyramid.
Who are the priests and nobles (land owners and the pharoah's family.)
200
A reason why pyramids were built
Answers vary...
300
Egyptians used these to stand for words, sounds, or ideas.
What are hieroglyphs.
300
The entire process of mummification takes approximately this many days.
What are 70.
300
The soil near the Nile was rich and good for growing crops which meant it was this>
What is fertile.
300
The people on the bottom tier of the Social Pyramid.
Who are unskilled workers and slaves.
300
A word that means to preserve after death.
What is embalm.
400
The Egyptian belief that there is life following death.
What is an afterlife.
400
The name of the substance used to absorb the moisture and dry out the mummies.
What is natron or salt and _______.
400
Name a food that is grown in the Nile River Delta.
What are lettuce, radishes, asparagus, cucumbers, dates, figs, grapes and watermelons
400
The people on the fourth level of the Social Pyramid (second from the bottom.)
Who are farmers and herders.
400
If you believed in many gods or goddesses, you would be called this.
What is polytheistic
500
The word that we use for something we write on originates from this word.
What is paper.
500
Because pharaohs believed in this, they were buried with all of their favorite things.
What is an afterlife (or that they would go on a journey following their death.)
500
What are two specific ways the Nile benefits Egypt or What are 2 "gifts of the Nile."
What are water, food, silt, papyrus, travel, calendar
500
The people on the third (middle) tier of the Social Pyramid.
Who are merchants / shopkeepers, traders, artisans, and scribes
500
The Rosetta Stone did this.
What is unlocked the history of Egypt (because it was the single item that linked the hieroglyphic language to a language someone understood.)
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