Vocab
Paper made from pressed and woven reeds
papyrus
Hamitic people settle Egypt
6000 BC
"Sacred writing" in Greek, hundreds of symbols and pictures
hieroglyphics
How were the pyramids built?
No one knows, but historians assume they used rollers, ropes, and human labor
Ranofer's most trusted friends
Heqet and the Ancient
a line of rulers who belong to a single family
dynasty
Egypt is united under King Menes
4000 BC
Only _____ percent of people in Egypt could read and write and they were called _________.
1 percent, scribes
Pharaoh thought to be the ruler at the time of Moses
Ramses II
The donkey's name
Lotus
belief and worship of 1 God; also the belief and worship of many gods
monotheism, polytheism
1100-332 BC
Late Period
God of the Sun, "made the sun rise"
Ra
Changed the Egyptian religion to monotheism
Akhenaten
What was written on the Golden Goblet?
The name of Thutmose Nefer-Kheperu (Pharaoh of Egypt over 100 years ago)
covered with a thin layer of gold
gilded
1799 AD
Discovery of the Rosetta Stone
Describe Egyptian clothing
Various answers
Female pharaoh often depicted with a beard
Hatshepsut
What day was it when Ranofer awoke in Chapter 13
The High Nile Festival
a large stone coffin (and spell it out loud)
sarcophagus
2571 BC
Pharaoh Khufu's pyramid built
Describe Ancient Egyptian gods
Various answers
The first pyramid was for Pharaoh _______and built by ___________.
Zoser, Imhotep
Where is Ranofer headed at the end of Ch. 13?
The Valley of Tombs