Nile & Beginnings
What river was the center of Egyptian civilization?
The Nile River
What was the title given to the kings of ancient Egypt?
Pharaoh
What was the Egyptian writing system made up of pictures and alphabetic symbols called?
Hieroglyphics
Why did ancient Egyptians busy their dead with possessions?
They believed they needed it in the afterlife to pass a series of tests.
Which pharaoh's tomb was discovered untouched in 1922?
Tutankhaman (King Tut)
What fertile material did the river in Egypt leave behind when it flooded?
Silt
What is a dynasty?
A line of rulers from a single family
What material, made of pressed reeds, did Egyptians use as paper?
Papyrus
What was an early Egyptian royal tomb called - a small, rectangular building with a flat roof?
A mastaba
What pharaoh renamed himself after the sun god Aten?
Akhenaten
What tool did Egyptian farmers use to lift water from the river into irrigation channels?
A shaduf
What city did King Menes establish as Egypt's capital?
Memphis
What were people called who spent years learning to read and write hieroglyphics?
Scribes
Which pharaoh commissioned the Great Pyramid at Giza?
What major religious change did Akhenaten try to introduce?
Monotheism
What two ares did King Menes bring together to unify Egypt?
Lower and Upper Egypt
Which period of Egyptian history came immediately before the Late Period?
The New Kingdom
What type of Egyptian specialist studied subjects such as mathematics, astronomy, and medicine?
scholars
What was the name of the pharaoh for whom Imhotep built the first pyramid?
Zoser
Akhenaten moved Egypt's capital city to Tell ar-Amarna. What was the former city's name?
Thebes
What body of water does the Nile River flow into near the area where the first Egyptians settled?
The Mediterranean Sea
For approximately how long did Egypt remain under the rule of dynasties of pharaohs?
3,000 years
What was one language, besides the ancient Egyptian language of pictures, that appeared on the Rosetta Stone?
Demotic or Ancient Greek
What two architectural features were inside the first pyramid designed to protect the pharaoh's treasures?
Tunnels and rooms
Which people fought against both Ramas I and Ramas II for control of Palestine and other territories?
Hittites