Mummification
The only organ not removed during the mummification process.
What is the heart?
The sun god and the most important god in Ancient Egyptian religion.
Who is Ra?
The longest river in the world. Runs through Africa.
What is the Nile?
The person at the very top of the social structure.
Who was the pharaoh?
Main purpose of pyramids.
What served as tombs for royalty or important people?
The body was dried using this salt.
Religious belief in ancient Egypt that is connected to mummies?
What is the afterlife?
The Nile River empties out into this sea.
What is the Mediterranean?
Egypt's largest class.
Who are farmers and unskilled workers?
The three periods Ancient Egypt is divided into and the kingdom or period the pyramids were built.
What is the Old, Middle, and new kingdom or period? and what is the old kingdom or period?
The organs were placed in these jars.
What are canopic jars?
Who was Hatshepsut?
The fertile soil in this area of the Nile helped crops grow.
What is the delta?
These are two ways water was stored in times of droughts.
What are ponds and pools?
The two reasons why overland trade was dangerous.
How they dealt with robbers and sandstorms?
Name of the book that explained the weighing of the heart.
What is the book of the dead?
The ancient Egyptian belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
What the Ancient Egyptians called the Nile River.
What is the giver of life?
After trying to stop flooding with simple ditches, the Ancient Egyptians built these two things to control the flooding.
What are dams and dikes?
The 3 reasons why sea trade was dangerous.
How they dealt with pirates, strong winds, and rough waves.
Heavy souls would get eaten by a monster made up of these three animal parts.
What are crocodile, lion, and hippopotamus?
The pharaoh that ruled after Hatshepsut and was also her stepson.
The other body of water located near the Sahara Desert and the Nile River?
What is the Red Sea?
Two ways slaves were different in Ancient Egyptian societies compared to others.
(only need 2 out of 3)
How slaves could own personal items, hold government jobs, and earn their freedom?
These are the three things Hyksos introduced besides superior weapons.
upright looms, horses, and new musical instruments (lyre and loom)