Vocabuary
This word means, "able to produce a lot of Vegetation."
What is fertile?
This triangular structure built by the Egyptians served as great monuments and tombs for kings.
This ruler united the two kingdoms of Egypt into one kingdom.
Who was Menes?
This river is the reason why Egypt exists at all.
What is the Nile?
The Egyptians thought this bright object moved around the world in a boat, going below the mountains in the West and rising above the mountains in the East.
What is the Sun?
This word means "to supply water to land for vegetation or crops"
What is "irrigate?"
This is a stone pillar set up as a landmark or monument.
What is an obelisk?
A city in Tennessee is named after this ancient Egyptian city
What is Memphis?
This mountainous country is to the south of Egypt
What is Ethiopia?
The Egyptians believed this body of water surrounded Earth
What is the Heavenly River?
This word refers to the arrangement of events by date
What is "Chronology?"
This is a statue that has the head of a lion but the body of a man.
What is a Sphinx?
This was the kingdom of Egypt in the south, with higher elevation.
What is Upper Egypt?
This sea is to the east of Egypt and also the sea that the Hebrews crossed in Exodus
What is the Red Sea?
This practice of body preservation was due to the belief of the Egyptians that when they died, their spirit would return to their body after death.
What is mummification?
This word means, the central part of a religious building used to hold a congregation. In Egypt, it would be held up by pillars.
What is a nave?
This pyramid was the tallest permanent structure in the world until the 1800s
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
A major characteristic of civilization is the ability to do *this*, which means many different skills being acquired by different people.
What is specialization?
This part of the Nile river is named after the Greek letter that takes the place of "D"
What is the Delta?
The priests would offer these plants, along with fresh food, wine, and water, to the gods
What are flowers?
This is an upright structure used for support of a building and acting as an entrance for a temple
What is a pylon?
This is the name of the main architect for the Egyptian pyramids
Who was Imhotep?
This was the way the Egyptians named years after the first 700 on their calendar
This is the desert that surrounds the Nile and goes into the West
What is the Sahara?
This god was believed to live in a cave underground and at the very end of the Heavenly river in the south
What is the Nile god?