Achievements
Paper-like writing material in ancient Egypt grown from plants.
What is papyrus?
Rich soil left behind after the Nile River floods?
What is silt? or black silt?
What is the belief in and worship of many gods?
What is polytheism?
Title of the rulers of ancient Egypt
What is a Pharaoh?
Ancient Egypt's economy heavily depended on ________ and ______.
What is fishing and farming?
Egyptian written language
What are hieroglyphics?
The Nile River flows from ________ to _________. (direction)
What is South to North
What is the Egyptian process of preserving and preparing a body for the afterlife? Extra points if you can name what the name of the coffin they go into.
What is mummification?
The reason why a scribe was considered an important job? (List 3 reasons)
What is they could read, write, and record history?
Four jars used to place a certain four organs in during the burial process.
What are canopic jars?
Egyptians constructed the _____________ to house Old Kingdom pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
The red land is a _________ which has _____ and _____ climate.
What is the desert, hot & dry?
Considered to be the organ that is the center of intelligence and it was weighed agains the ________.
What is the heart and the feather of truth?
The gradual increase of the social period indicated what?
What is the growth in population?
Special Egyptian salt used during the mummification process.
What is natron?
In order to construct the pyramids, Egyptians needed to be proficient in _________ and _____________.
What is engineering and mathematics?
The Nile River turns into a _______ which then flows into the __________.
What is the delta and Mediterranean Sea?
The organ that was considered useless and thrown away during the mummification process.
What is the brain?
The difference of slaves in Ancient Egypt from Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is the freedom to own land?
People had to pay ______ to ______.
What are taxes to the pharaoh?
This large achievement, also known as sphinx, used to be colored; however, over time, because of erosion, it lost its _______ and _______.
What are its color and nose?
Ancient Egypt was different from Ancient Mesopotamia because their geography provided them with _________.
What is protection?
Egyptian god worshiped as the ideal mother and wife, known as the protector of the dead and goddess of children.
Who is Isis?
Chief minister who supervised the business of government in ancient Egypt.
What is a vizier?
From top to bottom, what is the correct order of the social structure of ancient Egypt?
priests
scribes
merchants
farmers
pharaoh
What are pharaohs, priests, scribes, merchants, farmers?
What are Egyptian and Greek?
The 3 seasons of Ancient Egypt that helped Ancient Egyptian farmers with their cropping season.
What is Akhet, Peret, and Shemu?
Egyptian god of the afterlife
Who is Osiris?
The type of government during the Old Kingdom. Consisted of an administrative organization with officials and procedures.
What is a bureaucracy?
A ______________ is a line of rulers all from one family that rule a country for many years.