Geography and the Nile River
This river flows north through Egypt and empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile River?
Ancient Egyptians used this title for their kings and rulers.
What is Pharaoh?
This early period is known for the construction of many of Egypt’s great pyramids.
What is the Old Kingdom?
True or False... Ancient Egyptians believed in life after death?
True
Egyptians used this picture-based writing system for records and monuments.
What are hieroglyphs?
The yearly flooding of the Nile left this rich soil on nearby farmland.
What is Silt?
This pharaoh’s tomb, discovered largely undisturbed and intact in 1922, contained many valuable objects.
Who is Tutankhamun (king tut)?
This kingdom followed a period of political division and included a reunification of Egypt. Pyramids were still built, but not was well as they were previously.
What is The Middle Kingdom?
The Egyptians believed in thousands of gods. This belief in many gods is called?
What is Polytheism?
This writing material was made from a plant that grew along the Nile.
What is papyrus?
This broad, fertile area formed where the Nile split into branches near its mouth.
What is the Nile Delta?
Known for creating a thriving economy, this female pharaoh ruled as king and commissioned a famous temple at Deir el-Bahri.
Who is Hatshepsut?
This kingdom was marked by military expansion and powerful rulers such as Hatshepsut and Ramses II.
What is the New Kingdom?
This process preserved a body for burial and the hoped-for afterlife.
What is mummification?
This ancient structure, built as a royal tomb, has a square base and four triangular sides.
What is a Pyramid?
This desert helped protect ancient Egypt from invasion and shaped where people settled.
What is the Sahara desert?
This New Kingdom pharaoh fought the Hittites at the Battle of Kadesh and later made a peace treaty.
Who is Ramses II?
Put the three major kingdoms in chronological order, from earliest to latest.
What are the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom?
This is the location where the Pharaohs of the New Kingdom were buried?
What is the Valley of Kings?
This stone, found near the Nile Delta, helped scholars understand how to read Egyptian hieroglyphs.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
What technique made use of the Nile’s flooding, supported farming, and helped Egyptian civilization support a large population?
What is Irrigation?
This pharaoh tried to replace Egypt’s traditional religion with worship focused on Aten. He was also king tut's father.
Who is Akhenaten?
What is the Sphinx?
Why did Egyptians place food, goods, and other objects in tombs?
What is that they believed the dead might need them in the afterlife?
The Egyptians invented the worlds first calendar based on the movements of this celestial body?
What is the Sun/Solar Calendar?