Pyramids
The first to build Smooth Pyramids
Who is Snefru?
The triangular shape created by branches of the Nile as it approaches the Mediterranean
What is a Delta?
The Kingdom of the Pyramid Age
What is the Old Kingdom?
A regent that crowned herself pharaoh
Who is Hatshepsut?
A reed plant used for paper making
What is papyrus?
The architect for the first pyramid
Who is Imhotep?
The name for the southern portion of Egypt
When Mentuhotep II reunified Egypt
What is the Middle Kingdom?
The Pharaoh that fought the battle of Kadesh
Who is Ramesses II?
The part of the Egyptian soul that remains after death
What is a ka?
Ordered the construction of the first pyramid
Who is Djoser?
The name for the fertile land along the Nile
What is black land?
When the Hyksos conquered and ruled Lower Egypt
What is the Second Intermediate Period?
The heretic Pharaoh that tried to change Egyptian religion.
Who is Akhenaten?
The Egyptian concept of order
What is ma'at?
Ordered the construction of The Great Pyramid of Giza
Who is Khufu?
The Egyptian word for red land
What is Deshret?
When Ahmose I expelled the Hyksos
What is The New Kingdom?
The Pharaoh who probably assassinated his predecessor
Who is Amenemhet I?
The name for an Egyptian District. There are 42 of them.
What is a nome?
The name for the original style of pyramid; not smooth pyramids.
What is a step-pyramid?
The two rivers that join to create the Nile
What are the Blue Nile and White Nile?
When the nomarchs gained too much power.
What is the First Intermediate Period?
The first pharaoh that united Egypt
The title for a deity that guides the should to the underworld.
what is a Psychopomp?