The Nile River
Which direction does the Nile River flow?
What is North?
This type of government where the Pharaohs were the government AND religious leaders is called this.
What is theocracy?
This invention helped the Egyptians track the annual flooding of the Nile River and we still use it today.
What is the calendar?
The name of the writing that the Ancient Egyptians invented.
What is Hieroglyphics?
Egypt is located in this continent.
What is Africa?
All of the burial tombs were placed on which side of the Nile River and why? This question has 2 parts - 2 answers.
What is West - because they prayed to the Sun God - Ra - and the sun sets in the West.
Under one particular Pharaoh, the Ancient Egyptians practiced a religion where you only believed in one God. What is this called?
What is monotheistic?
This invention allowed the people to help heal the sick.
What is medicine?
There were over 800 symbols or this word that made up the Hieroglyphic language.
Egypt's Nile River flows into the Mediterranean Sea in this direction.
What is North?
This invention was created to move water to keep the crops moist.
What is irrigation?
The Ancient Egyptians believed that after they died, they would come back and live again. This is called the
What is called the Afterlife?
This invention was built by the Ancient Egyptians so they could travel up and down the Nile River.
What are ships?
This famous stone slab helped researchers decipher the Hieroglyphic writing.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
These are the 3 main crops that the Ancient Egyptians grew in 3000 B.C.
What are wheat, barley, and flax seeds?
The Nile River flows into what body of water?
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The Sun God was the most important God of the Ancient Egyptians. His name was
Who was Ra?
This invention is still used today in modern times; but back then was used for shade, decoration, to cover thinning hair, to pevent lice, and for religious ceremonies.
What are wigs?
Ancient Egyptians used Hieroglyphic writing to write on temples, monuments, and this.
What are tombs?
What are the names of the 2 deserts that flank the Nile River?
What are the Western Desert and Eastern Desert?
These 2 smaller rivers led into the Nile River midway through Ancient Egypt
What are the Blue Nile and the White Nile rivers?
The Ancient Egyptians prepared for the Afterlife by preserving their bodies. They used this special process of emptying the body of all the organs, draining the body of all water, oiling it, and wrapping it in linen bandages.
What is mummification?
This invention led to the great pyramids that were built to bury the Pharaohs and it has 2 words.
What is mathematics and geometry?
What does the word "hieroglyphics" mean?
What is "sacred writing?"
This section of Ancient Egyptian land was located near the Delta by the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Lower Egypt?