Geography
The two major regions of Egypt.
What are Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt?
The belief in many deities.
What is polytheism?
The reason for the creation of the Narmer Palette.
The unification of Lower and Upper Egypt.
A type of government in which one ruler holds all the power.
What is a monarchy?
What is "beer"?
The continent on which Egypt is located.
What is Africa?
The major Egyptian mother goddess who was also worshipped by the Romans.
Who is Isis?
The religious ideal that shaped Egyptian architecture and artwork.
Ma'at (balance)
A type of government in which political authority and religious authority are viewed as the same.
What is a theocracy?
The room of the house in which local deities were worshipped.
What is the entrance room?
The direction the Nile River flows.
South to north
The Egyptian goddess of plague, war, and healing.
Who is Sekhmet?
The Egyptian symbol of life and resurrection.
What is the ankh?
The symbol of the pharaoh that resembles a lion's mane.
What is the Nemes Crown?
The instructions for souls in the afterlife written by the ancient Egyptians.
The Book of the Dead
The term for the "black land" or area of fertile soil immediately surrounding the Nile River.
What is "kemet"?
The Egyptian deity who personifies magic and who was present at creation.
Who is Heka?
The form of writing developed by the ancient Egyptians.
Hieroglyphs.
The symbol of the pharaoh that shows the pharaoh's connection to the gods.
What is the false beard?
The first mummy, according to Egyptian mythology, and lord of the underworld.
Who is Osiris?
The term for the "red land" or dry desert land surrounding Egypt.
What is deshret?
The Egyptian god of chaos.
Who is Set?
True or false? The Egyptian pyramids were built mainly through the use of slave labor.
False.
The literal meaning of the word "pharaoh".
Great house.
The term for the Egyptian afterlife that was similar to daily life in ancient Egypt.
What is the Field of Reeds?