Writing
Egyptian Literature
Pyramids
Painting and Sculpture
Science and Mathematics
100
A drawing or symbol that represents a word or a sound.
What is hieroglyphics?
100
This included teachings, stories, poems, religious texts, and histories.
What is ancient Egyptian literature?
100
Tombs of early rulers were these.
What are underground chambers?
100
This is a statue or other free standing piece of art made of clay or stone.
What is a sculpture?
100
Egyptians measure time by the cycles of this.
What is the sun?
200
People who knew how to write and were valued for their knowledge in Egypt.
Who are scribes and officials?
200
This famous text is a guide to the afterlife for dead souls.
What is The Book of the Dead?
200
This is a structure with triangular sides.
What is a pyramid?
200
Much of what we know about life in Egypt comes from painting found here.
What are tomb walls?
200
The ancient Egyptians wanted to keep the calender linked to these to help farmers plan when to plant and harvest crops.
What are the seasons?
300
This material was made from a reed that grew along the Nile river valley.
What is papyrus?
300
The Tale of Sinuhe tells the tale of this person.
Who is an Egyptian official?
300
For nearly 4000 years this pyramid was the world's tallest building.
What is The great pyramid of Khufu?
300
The paintings were created to provide the person buried in the tomb with all of the objects and pleasures shown on the walls for this.
What is the afterlife?
300
Their ability to construct the great pyramids proves their command of _____, or addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
What is arithmetic?
400
Two examples of documents written on papyrus.
What are medical books and stories?
400
Scibes were valued for this reason.
What is the ability to read and write?
400
This pyramid guarded the road to Khafre's pyramid.
What is the Sphinx?
400
Colossal statues of these stood in temples.
What are gods?
400
This is the study of the structure of the body and its organs.
What is anatomy?
500
Papyrus is the root of which English word.
What is paper?
500
Egyptian literature was written on sheets of papyrus, carved on stone monuments, and painted on these.
What are coffins of mummies?
500
These show Egyptians' command of mathematics and advanced building techniques.
What are the pyramids of ancient Egypt?
500
If a mummy was destroyed this could replace it.
What is a statue?
500
To bring the water of the Nile River to their fields the ancient Egyptians developed complex systems of this.
What is irrigation?
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