Definitions
Definitions
The Nile River
Life in Ancient Egypt
100
What is a cataract?
What is rapids or waterfalls in a river?
100
What is a theocracy?
What is a government in which the same person is both the political leader and the religious leader?
100
Which is a reason the Nile has been called “the lifeblood” of Egypt?
What is because the Nile river brought nutrients and water enabling the people who lived there to survive and thrive?
100
What is the Book of the Dead?
What is the instruction manual for how to proceed into the Egyptian afterlife?
200
What is the Nile Delta?
What is a an-shaped area of fertile marshland?
200
What are bureaucrats?
What is government officials?
200
How did the Egyptians take advantage of the Nile’s yearly spring flooding?
What is they became successful farmers?
200
The Egyptians willingly served their all-powerful leader because they believed unity came from a strong _____.
What is leader?
300
What is a dynasty?
What is a line of rulers from one family?
300
What is embalming?
What is the way Egyptians could protect bodies for the afterlife?
300
Which best describes the type of government in Egypt after 3100 b.c.?
What is independent city-state?
300
The ancient Egyptian civilization was the first to publish books describing advances in the field of _____>
What is medicine?
400
What are hieroglyphics?
What is combination of pictures and sound symbols created a complex writing system?
400
What are pyramids?
What is large tombs of the pharoahs?
400
What was the effect of increased farming and trade?
What is an organized government developed?
400
While building the pyramids, the Egyptians developed a calendar that had _____ and _____ months.
What is 365 and 12?
500
What is papyrus?
What is a reed plant that grew wild along the Nile that was used to make various items including paper?
500
Who was in the upper, middle, and lower class in Egypt?
What is Upper - Pharoah, priests, nobles Middle - traders, artisans, and scribes Lower - farmers, unskilled workers?
500
The pharaoh distributed land to _____, _____, and _____ _____ whom he favored.
What is officials, priests, and wealthy Egyptians?
500
The pyramids protected the bodies of dead pharaohs from _____, _____, and _____.
What is floods, wild animals, and robbers?
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