Gods and Religion
This was the primary burial practice for ancient Egyptians.
What is mummification?
This river valley region is where the ancient Egyptians formed their civilization.
What is the Nile Valley
The ancient Egyptians built these large structures to act as tombs for their pharaohs.
What are the pyramids?
This was the revolution that allowed ancient humans to begin forming civilization.
What was the Agricultural Revolution?
This person was seen as the religious leader of Egypt and was believed to be a god living among man.
Who was the pharaoh?
This desert lays to the west of the Nile River and helped naturally isolate Egypt from outside invaders.
What was the Libyan Desert?
This was the writing system that ancient Egyptians developed.
What was hieroglyphics?
The earliest written story recovered in ancient Mesopotamia.
What was the Epic of Gilgamesh?
This was one of the most important writings in ancient Egypt. Ancient Egyptians would study this writing to prepare them for the afterlife.
What was The Book of the Dead?
This was the sea located to the west of the Nile River and helped naturally isolate the Egyptians from outside invaders.
What is the Red Sea?
This is the familial line of rulers that continues on until the family tree is either forced out or dies out.
What is a dynasty?
This type of historian studies history by researching artifacts or what people left behind.
What is an archaeologist?
This god was believed to be the God of the Sun.
Who was Amun Re?
This civilization formed south of the Egyptian civilization.
Who were the Kushites?
The Ancient Egyptians used this to irrigate their crops using a bucket attached to a long pole.
What was the shadoof?
This great Chaldean king rebuilt the ancient city of Babylon.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
This god was believed to have been an early pharaoh that provided people with laws and taught them how to farm.
Who was Osiris?
Ancient Egyptians gave their land this name after the dark, rich, and fertile soil provided to them from the Nile River.
What is the Black Land or Kemet?
What is a theocracy?
This was time period is also known as the Stone Ages and is characterized by the shift from hunting and gathering to systemic agriculture.
What were the Neolithic Times?