Chapter 8 🥵
A huge structure with a square base and four triangular sides, built as a royal tomb.
Pyramid
What plant grows along the Nile?
papyrus
What is the study of religious doctrine?
Christianity and Islam
desert
Boxlike Tomb
Mastaba
What is the African developed branch of mathematics meaning “earth measuring”
Geometry
What is an issue which divides people into groups that disagree called?
Controversy
A piece of broken pottery with either designs or writings on the outside is…
An ostrakon
huge jutting rocks and waterfalls
Cataract
A list or file in sequential order containing items of importance
Catalog
What are the hundreds of massive columns in rows in the Temple of Karnak called?
Colonade
What is a being believed by the ancients to have supernatural powers and to control parts of the world called?
A god
What does it mean to convert?
fertile soil
Silt
an ancient Egyptian city on the Nile; Luxor today
What was writing known as in ancient Egypt?
What is a story or tale that is told to explain how the world came to exist?
Narrative of Creation
What is a fortress?
What are carriages pulled by horses also called?
Chariots
A tall four-sided pillar of stone that narrows to a pyramid shape on top
Obelisk
What was the writing on the monuments called?
Who were the supreme gods?
Atum, Ra, Ptah, and Amen
What is another name for Ta-seti?
“land of the bow” or ancient Egypt
A great and successful struggling, such as Piankhi’s battles over Egypt is a..
Conquest