Vocabulary
Geography
Egypt 1
Egypt 2
Egypt 3
100
What does mummify mean?
What is to preserve a dead body.
100
What main river travels through Egypt?
What is the Nile River
100
What were Egyptians taxed on?
What is their crops and animals
100
Egyptians wear white or black clothes to keep cool?
What is white
100
In ancient Egypt only these people went to school.
What is boys
200
Tiny bits of soil and rock carried along by flowing water is called what?
What is silt
200
Egypt is a city, country, territory or continent?
What is country
200
What is Egypt's most important crop?
What is cotton
200
Egyptians invented a type of paper called what?
What is papyrus
200
Why did they leave treasures with the mummies?
For the after life
300
A person who writed down or copies letters and books is called what?
What is a scribe
300
What continent is Egypt in?
What is Africa
300
What were the homes made out of?
What are bricks made from mud and straw
300
Pharaohs built many huge temples to honor what?
What are gods
300
What kind of gifts were sent to the Pharaohs?
items made from gold
400
What is a column?
What is a tall, upright pillar that helps support a building.
400
What is the capital of Egypt?
What is Cairo
400
What did the Egyptians add to help grind their wheat that caused toothaches?
What is sand
400
People think joining a funeral is considered this
What is good luck.
400
What body part did Egyptians think was not important when preparing a body for the after life?
What is the brain
500
Good for plants and crops to grow in is called what?
What is fertile
500
Name the city where an enormous dam is located.
What is Aswan
500
Why is the Aswan Dam necessary in Egypt?
It supplies most of Egypt's water.
500
What was found in 1799 that helped people learn to read hieroglyphs because it was written in 3 languages?
What is the Rosetta Stone
500
Ancient Egyptians wore deodorant on what unusual part of their body?
What is their head
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