Vocabulary
life after death
afterlife
People used the ___ River to trade with their neighbors.
Nile
True or False: Everyone was NOT expected to worship the same gods during the Old Kingdom.
False
The pyramids were built as huge tombs for Egyptian ___________.
pharaohs
A period in which the Egyptians developed a system based on the belief that the pharaoh was both a king and a god. 2700-2200 BCE.
Old Kingdom
The pharaoh had absolute ____ over all land and people in Egypt.
power
Egyptians built temples to the _______ throughout the kingdom.
gods
Pyramids are huge stone tombs with four _______ sides that meet in a point on the top.
triangular/triangle
Huge stone tombs with four triangular sides that meet in a point on the top
pyramids
During the Old Kingdom period, they believed that the pharaoh was both a king and a _____.
god
The gods of ancient Egypt would often mix human and ______ forms.
animal
True or false: Historians are unsure how they were built.
True
A government ruled by religious authorities
theocracy
The most famous pharaoh of the Old Kingdom was ____, who ruled in the 2500s BC.
Khufu
The Egyptians had gods for nearly everything, including the sun, the sky, and the _____.
earth
Pyramids pointed to the sky to symbolize the pharaoh’s journey to the ______.
afterlife
Worship of many gods
polytheistic
Explain the social order of the Old Kingdom. Start with group with the most power to the least. Hint: there are four groups.
1) Pharaoh, 2) Nobels, 3) Scribes and Craftspeople, 4) Farmers, Servants, and Slaves
_____ was the god of the sun and lord of the gods.
Ra
Around 2700 BC, Egyptians began building smooth-sided pyramids covered with _______.
limestone