Pharaohs
The first female pharaoh of Egypt.
Who is Hatshepsut?
The god of the sun in ancient Egypt.
Who is Ra?
A monumental structure with a square base and triangular sides, built as a tomb.
What is a pyramid?
This plant-based paper was used for writing letters, records, and even schoolwork in ancient Egypt.
What is papyrus?
This writing system used pictures and symbols to represent words, ideas, and sounds.
What are hieroglyphics?
The name of the famous boy pharaoh?
Who is Tutankhamun?
The name of the goddess of motherhood and fertility.
Who is Isis?
The largest pyramid.
The Great Pyramid of Giza.
Most Egyptians belonged to this social class and spent their days farming crops like wheat and barley.
What are farmers (or peasants)?
This early Egyptian writing surface, made from reeds along the Nile, was used for scrolls, records, and letters.
What is papyrus?
This pharaoh is known for uniting Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is Narmer (or Menes)?
The god known as the god of the afterlife.
Who is Osiris?
The purpose of the pyramids.
To serve as tombs for pharaohs and important figures.
Egyptians ate food like bread, vegetables, dates, and this fish-based protein source from the Nile.
What is fish?
This stone slab, discovered in 1799, helped scholars decode hieroglyphics because the same text was written in three languages.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
The title Egyptian kings used.
What is Pharaoh?
The animal associated with the goddess Bastet.
What is a cat?
The process of how the pyramids were built.
Through a large workforce, using ramps and precise engineering techniques.
Children in ancient Egypt played with toys made of wood, clay, and cloth, including these round objects used for games.
What are balls?
Scribes used this tool, dipped in ink, to write on papyrus during the recording of taxes, laws, and grain supplies.
What is a reed brush or reed pen?
The last pharaoh of Egypt before it became a Roman province.
Who is Cleopatra VII?
The god of chaos and disorder.
Who is Set?
Name one famous pyramid.
The Pyramid of Khufu.
This sweet food, gathered from wild bees, was the most common ancient Egyptian sweetener and was used in medicine, cooking, and religious offerings.
What is honey?
Scribes attended this type of school where they practiced writing thousands of times to master hieroglyphics.
What is a scribe school?