All about Vocab.
Egyptian writing is known as _____________.
Hieroglyphics
What direction does the Nile River Flow? North, South, East, or West?
North
Why were the Pyramids built?
Tombs for deceased Pharaohs
Why was Amenhotep IV unpopular as a pharaoh?
Only worshipped one god
The name of a ruler in Egypt
Pharaoh
The Nile River ends in what Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Egypt's economy was based on what?
Wheat
Why did Egyptians stop building Pyramids as tombs?
What term matches this definition?
"The wealth and resources of a civilization including their production and use of goods and services"
DAILY DOUBLE: Define what goods and services are in an economy
Economy
DAILY DOUBLE:
Goods: physical resources for trading (Food, clothes, metals, wood, etc.
Service: the labor of someone completing a job/task
Looking at the map on the whiteboard, locate lower Egypt.
Is it location A or location B
DAILY DOUBLE: Why were these kingdoms called Upper and Lower Egypt? (think about their geography)
Location A
DAILY DOUBLE: Upper Egypt was on higher land
This artifact helped archaeologists understand what Egyptians believed happened after they died
Book of the Dead
What Kingdom were Pharaohs considered god-like
Old Kingdom
A line of rulers from the same royal family is called _______________.
dynasty
What are three examples of how the Egyptians used the Nile River
Fertile soil, irrigation, travel, drinking water, cleaning, pottery
Since Egypt did NOT use money, their economy was a ___________ system.
Barter system
During the New Kingdom of Egypt, where were Pharaoh's tombs located?
Valley of the Kings
Egyptian paper was made with this plant
Papyrus
What natural barriers of protection did Egypt have?
Deserts, river rapids
Egyptians used ______________ to create a 12 month calendar
Astronomy
This Pharaoh is famous for unifying Upper and Lower Kingdoms of Egypt
Pharaoh Menes