The Nile Valley
This ancient Egyptian religious belief is directly connected to mummies. When you think about it, the term "walk like an Egyptian" takes on a whole new meaning!
What is belief in the afterlife, or afterlife?
A series of rulers from the same family is known as this.
What is dynasy?
It's the number of rooms connected by a maze of hallways in the elaborate temple known as Labyrinth.
What is 3,000?
Where most Egyptians lived; not in a city, but in this type of country area.
What is rural?
The number of cataracts the Nile River runs between in the land south of Upper Egypt, and the length of the Nile River in miles.
What is 6 and 4,160 miles?
To the Egyptians, the Nile was this. Of course, it was also the opposite!
What is "the giver of life?"
The Old Kingdom is known as the Age of this, because over 800 years, the Egyptians developed the technology to build the largest stone structures in the world.
What are pyramids?
At the end of the Old Kingdom, when Egypt fell into civil war, there was a long drought that caused farmland to dry up and crops to die, which caused this condition that further plagued the war-torn country.
What is famine?
Under pressure from his advisers, this nine-year old king restored the old Egyptian gods and changed his name to this, which means "living image of Amon. When he died at the age of 18, he was buried in a solid gold coffin.
Who is Tutankmamen, or King Tut?
This royal headpiece of unified Egypt was formed by placing the crown of Upper Egypt inside the crown of Lower Egypt.
What is the double crown?
This major feature of the Nile River attracted early farmers because the fertile soil helped crops grow.
What is the Nile Delta, or delta?
In 3100 B.C., this king of Upper Egypt conquered Lower Egypt, united the two lands and created the world's first nation-state. BONUS - experts believe he was this legendary King.
Who is King Narmer? BONUS - Who is King Menes?
When this vizier became king at the beginning of Dynasty 12, the high point of the Middle Kingdom period.
Who is Amenemhet?
In ancient Egyptian society, these two groups of people were Egypt's largest class, slightly above slaves, but not as important as craftworkers, scribes, or merchants.
Who are farmers and unskilled workers?
It's one of the two musical instruments the Hyksos brought to Egypt.
What is the lyre or lute?
The name of the sun god, who was one the Egyptian's most important gods because it directly connects to their belief in the afterlife, which became an important part of early Egyptian culture.
Who is Ra?
Because Ancient Egyptians believed the heart was this, it was the only organ not removed from body during the mummification process.
What is home of the soul?
When trade with other regions increased during the Middle Kingdom, Egyptians had resources such as grains, valuable minerals and semi-precious stones to trade for important resources it didn't have like this for building and this for metalworking.
What is wood and copper?
During the time of the New Kingdom, Egyptian kings took the title of pharaoh which means this, because in earlier times, the word referred to the king's magnificent palace.
What is "great house?"
When Amenhotep IV became pharaoh, he and his wife favored a single god named this. In fact, Amenhotep was so devoted to this god, he changed his own name to Akhenaton, which means "servant of this god."
Who is the Aton?
The Nile River was everything to the ancient Egyptians. In fact, it allowed them to do these two things, which made it possible for some towns to grow into cities.
What is trade and travel?
If the heart was judged to be heavy by Osiris and a group of judges, Ancient Egyptians believed that what three part monster would eat the dead person's soul.
What is part crocodile, part lion, and part hippopotamus?
The meaning of Hyksos, which is the Egyptian name given to the people who came into Egypt and brought about the end of the Middle Kingdom and tore Egypt apart.
What is "rulers of foreign lands?"
Under his rule, this stepson of Hatshepsut controlled lands from the fourth cataract in Nubia all the way north to the Euphrates River, which brought the Egyptian Empire to it greatest size.
Who is Thutmose III?
When this discovery was made in A.D. 1799, it helped scholars decipher hieroglyphs and read Egyptian writing such as the Book of the Dead.
What is the Rosetta Stone?