Served as tomb for dead kings to attain eternal life
What is a pyramid?
100
Egyptian language in writing that used images for sounds and meaning or “priestly markings”
What is hieroglyphics?
100
The process of mummification is linked and associated with the legends
What is Egypt?
100
The political and religious leader of the people
What is the pharaoh?
200
A plant that is grown in marshes and swamps
What is papyrus?
200
The largest and best pyramids built during the Old Kingdom
What is Giza?
200
Much is known of Ancient Egyptian civilization from a discovery that had inscriptions of the same text in two languages, three writing systems and the Greek alphabet
What is Rosetta Stone?
200
Mummification was process that had varying levels and it became more sophisticated as people did not want to be buried in the sand, but tombs classifying their status
What is the elite?
200
After the death of his father, Kamose, he became king and was still a boy
What is Ahmose?
300
The Delta Region is the North of Egypt
What is Lower Egypt?
300
The pyramids at Giza, “great pyramid and Sphinx”, required many resources, took years to build and left people wondering how theses iconic symbols were built
What is monumental architecture?
300
Two important topics that were scribed on papyrus to record information
What is religion and government?
300
Egyptians determined a process to preserve the bodies that would keep the dead most life like
What is embalming?
300
Belief in the sun god, and changed the course of Egypt to practicing monotheism
What is Akenhaten?
400
Important part of agriculture that left silt on the lands for farmers to grow corps
What is Inundation?
400
These people worked alongside many skilled workers in the building of the pyramids
What is a peasant?
400
Craftsmen painted and/or craved hieroglyph onto tombs and their work was always checked
What is the scribe?
400
The goddess in charge of funeral rites
What is Isis?
400
Egypt’s most famous women in power
What is Hatshepsut?
500
In modern times, we refer to as Southern Egypt and Northern Sudan
What is Nubia?
500
Scribed inside royal tombs to progress to afterlife
What is tomb text?
500
Responsible for ‘cracking the code’, he was a linguistic expert and vowed to interpret the inscriptions
What is Jean-Francois Champollion?
500
The order of the universe that was brought by the god that was critical to life and the ides of truth, justice and moderation