Vocab 1
Vocab 2
Pyramids, Temples, and Monuments
Short Answer Questions
Miscellaneous
100
a deposit of sand and soil at the mouth of a river
What is delta?
100
an Egyptian king
What is a pharaoh?
100
most of the temples were built in this kingdom
What is the Old Kingdom?
100
studied stars and planets
Who are astronomers?
100
the ruler who united Upper and Lower Egypt
Who is Menes ?
200
containers that used to store the internal organs of mummified bodies
What are canopic jars?
200
paper made from reeds
What is papyrus?
200
3 bodies of water the Egyptians used to travel and trade with other countries
What are the Nile River, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Red Sea?
200
introduced splints and herbs
What is medicine?
200
People who stole treasures from the tombs
Who are grave robbers?
300
the preservation of a body by embalming
What is mummification?
300
ancient writing using pictures and symbols
What are hieroglyphics?
300
tall, four-sided tower of stone covered by hieroglyphics
What is an obelisk?
300
used no zeroes
What is number system?
300
a depression in the earth's surface which fills with water from a river and its tributaries
What is a basin?
400
workers who treat dead bodies with chemicals
What are embalmers?
400
an irrigation system used by ancient Egyptians
What is shaduf?
400
to take treasures into the next life
What is why the pharaohs built monuments in their names?
400
measured the land by tying knots in strings
What is surveying?
400
3 seasons
What is how the Egyptian calendar is different from ours?
500
an underground tomb with a flat roof
What is mastaba?
500
the cemetary in an ancient city
What is necropolis?
500
to be remembered
What is one reason pharaohs built monuments in their names?
500
2 similarities between the ancient Egyptian system of government and our government
What is leaders have more responsibility and there were judges?
500
The pharaoh was considered to be a representative of the gods. (2 reasons)
What is why people did what he said and he was respected?
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