Land of the Nile
The Nile River Valley is surrounded by this hot, dry, uninhabitable landscape.
What is the desert?
This is the name for Egyptian picture-style writing.
What is hieroglyphics?
This is the title for the king of Egypt.
What is pharaoh?
A series of Egyptian rulers from the same family is called this.
What is a dynasty?
This boy king's nearly complete tomb was uncovered by archaeologists in 1922.
Who is Tutankhamun?
Northern Egypt goes by this name, while Southern Egypt goes by this other name.
What is Lower Egypt & Upper Egypt?
Male scribes wrote on this paper-like material made from reeds.
What is papyrus?
The vast majority of pyramids were built during this period of Egyptian history.
What is the Old Kingdom?
Around 3100 BC, this ruler, perhaps the first pharaoh, united Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is Menes, or Narmer?
This woman ruled as pharaoh and preferred diplomacy over force.
Who is Hatshepsut?
The yearly flood leaves behind this rich, fertile mud along the riverbanks.
What is silt?
Discovered in 1799, this stone slab had both Greek and Egyptian writing on it.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Before pyramids, pharaohs were buried in these flat, rectangular mud brick tombs.
What are mastabas?
This Semitic nomadic people conquered Egypt at the end of the Middle Kingdom and introduced horses.
Who are the Hyksos?
Akhenaton's belief in only one god, Aten, is known by this term.
What is monotheism?
The Nile flows from this direction from the mountains to this direction into the Mediterranean sea.
What is south to north?
Some hieroglyphic signs are pictographs, while others are this type, standing for sounds.
What are phonetic signs?
This chief architect built Djoser's tomb by stacking six stone mastabas on top of one another.
Who is Imhotep?
Ahmose I drove out the Hyksos and began the 18th dynasty, which marked the peak of Egyptian power in this era of Egyptian history.
What is the New Kingdom?
This New Kingdom Pharaoh, called "the Great", built monuments including Abu Simbel.
Who is Ramses II?
The Egyptians called the fertile soil near the Nile by this name, and the desert by this other name.
What are the Black Land and the Red Land?
This Frenchman figured out how to read hieroglyphics by comparing the Egyptian and Greek texts.
Who is Jean-François Champollion?
The pharaoh's main job was to preserve this universal or moral law of the cosmos.
What is Ma'at?
This artifact shows Menes wearing both the Red Crown and the White Crown and contains some of the earliest hieroglyphs.
What is the Palette of Narmer?
This 1274 BC battle between Egypt and the Hittites ended in a stalemate and led to the world's first peace treaty.
What is the Battle of Kadesh?